Postal address: | Linguistics, Graduate School of Humanities and Sociology, University of Tokyo,
7-3-1 Hongo, Tokyo 113-0033
〒113-0033 東京都文京区本郷7-3-1 東京大学大学院人文社会系研究科言語学研究室 小林正人 |
Current Research Interest: | 1. Dravidian languages (Kurux and Malto) |
2. Old Indo-Aryan (Sanskrit) and Pāṇinian Grammar | |
3. Austro-Asiatic languages (Hill Korwa) |
Education: |
1996-2000 | Ph.D. | Linguistics | University of Pennsylvania |
1992-1994 | M.A. | Sanskrit | Kyoto University |
1988-1992 | B.A. | Sanskrit | Kyoto University |
Employment: |
2020- | Professor | Graduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Tokyo |
2010-2020 | Associate Professor | Graduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Tokyo |
2007-2009 | Associate Professor | School of Education, Hakuoh University |
2001-2007 | Lecturer | School of Business Management, Hakuoh University |
2000-2001 | COE Research Fellow | Institute for the Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies |
1998-2000 | Research Assistant | Linguistic Data Consortium, University of Pennsylvania |
Books: |
Masato Kobayashi and Tetru Oraon. Purkhar gahi Khiri (Kurux Folktale Reader), Kotoba Books, x+186pp.
MP3 Recording of the Texts |
Masato Kobayashi and Bablu Tirkey. The Kurux Language: Grammar, Texts and Lexicon. Brill's Studies in South and Southwest Asian Languages 8. Leiden: Brill. 2017. xvii+791pp.
MP3 Recording of the Texts |
Associate editor of Bablu Tirkey's novel, Khatrka Ropnas gahi Tungul (Poor Ropna's Dream). Romanized text (PDF) Bendora: Manas Publication Bendora. 2017. v+161pp. |
Associate editor, Bablu Tirkey's collected poems, Sava Rupiya Khatri (For One and a Quarter Rupees). Romanized text (PDF) Bendora: Manas Publication Bendora. 2017. vii+69pp. |
Texts and Grammar of Malto. Vizianagaram: Kotoba Books, 2012. iii+465pp. MP3 Recordings of the stories transcribed in this book |
Masato Kobayashi and Bablu Tirkey. Malto Speech and Transcripts (audio and text corpus in DVD). Philadelphia: Linguistic Data Consortium. 2012. ISBN 1-58563-606-1. |
Historical Phonology of Old Indo-Aryan Consonants. Study of Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa Monograph Series 42, ILCAA, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, 2004. |
LDC American English Spoken Lexicon (with A. Seidl and Z. Wu), Linguistic Data Consortium, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, July 1999. |
(CD-ROM edition: December 1999. ISBN 1-58563-156-6) |
Articles and Reviews |
"Origin of the -k past in Kurux and Malto", To appear in: International Journal of Dravidian Linguistics 51, 2022. |
"Reconstruction of Verb Suffixes in Kurux and Malto", To appear in: Indian Linguistics 81, 2021. |
"Viewing Proto-Dravidian from the Northeast", Journal of the American Oriental Society 140: 467-481. 2020. |
"Phonology of Indic", in Klein, Jared, Brian Joseph and Matthias Fritz (eds.), Handbook of Comparative and Historical Indo-European Linguistics, (Handbucher zur Sprach- und Kommunikationswissenschaft (HSK) 41, Berlin: de Gruyter. |
"Review: Peter Scharf, Sanskrit Syntax," Journal of the American Oriental Society |
"Patañjali on Borderline Cases of Compound Classification". in Cardona, George and Hideyo Ogawa (eds.) Vyakaranapariprccha: Proceedings of the Vyakarana Section of the 16th World Sanskrit Conference. New Delhi: DK Publishers. 2016. |
Ram, Bandhu(口述)、小林正人(著), 「エルンガ・コルワ語民話『蛍の婿』」, 『東京大学言語学論集電子版』38. 近刊. |
Sudhni Bai(口述)、小林正人(著), 「エルンガ・コルワ語民話『虎の花嫁』」, 『東京大学言語学論集電子版』37. 2016. 41-53. |
Bhinsari Bai(口述)、小林正人(著), 「エルンガ・コルワ語民話『ジャッカルと老人』」, 『東京大学言語学論集電子版』36, 2015. e1-e8. |
"The adnominal locative in Indo-Aryan", in Byrd, Andrew Miles, Jessica DeLisi, and Mark Wenthe (eds.), Tavet Tat Satyam, Studies in Honor of Jared S. Klein on the Occasion of His Seventieth Birthday, 2016, Ann Arbor: Beech Stave Press, 169-178. |
The attributive locative in the Rgveda, in Gunkel, Dieter, Joshua T. Katz, Brent Vine and Michael Weiss (eds.), Sahasram Ati Srajas, Indo-Iranian and Indo-European Studies in Honor of Stephanie W. Jamison, 2016, Ann Arbor: Beech Stave Press, 206-215. |
Origin of redundant agreement in Malto -ke converb, in V.I.Subramoniam Commemoration Volume, Vol. 1, Thiruvananthapuram: Dravidian Linguistics Association. June 2015. 485-493. |
Origin and development of Sanskrit /yy/, in: Klein, Jared S. and Elizabeth Tucker (eds.), Vedic and Sanskrit Historical Linguistics: Papers of the 13th World Sanskrit Conference: Volume III. Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass. 2014. 1-24. |
Masato Kobayashi, "Information Structure and the Particles vai and eva in Vedic Prose", in: Klein, Jared and Kazuhiko Yoshida (eds.), Indic across the Millennia: from the Rigveda to modern Indo-Aryan: 14th World Sanskrit Conference, Kyoto, Japan, September 1st-5th, 2009, proceedings of the Linguistic Section., 2013. Bremen: Hempen Verlag, 2013, 77-92. (pre-final copy) |
Masato Kobayashi, "The Stative Passive Construction in Kurux", PDF Tokyo University Linguistic Papars (TULIP) 33 (Festschrift for Hiroshi Kumamoto), 2012, 119-133. |
Book Review: Lipp, Reiner, Die indogermanischen und einzelsprachlichen Palatale im Indoiranischen, in Indo-Iranian Journal 55 (2012), 287-296, Leiden: E.J. Brill |
クルフ語、マルト語の過去語幹. 言語研究 140 (2011), 23 - 49. |
Rezensionsartikel: Martin Kümmel, Konsonantenwaldel, Wiesbaden 2007. Kratylos 55 (2010), 45 - 54. |
Indo-Aryan Loanwords and the Prehistory of Kurux and Malto. in Yoshida, Kazuhiko, and Brent S. Vine (eds.), East and West: Studies in Indo-European Bremen: Hempen Verlag, 2009. 111-131. |
Kera' Mundari, in Anderson, Gregory ed., The Munda Languages. London: Routledge Curzon. 2008. 165-194.
Recordings we used for writing this paper |
Panini's phonological rules and Vedic: Astadhyayi 8.2. Journal of Indological Studies 18 (2006). |
. マルト語の現在形と方言区分. in Peri Bhaskararao (ed.), Research in Minority Languages in South and Southeast Asia: Working Papers II, ILCAA: Tokyo University of Foreign Studies. March 2007, 1-11. |
(with Bablu Tirkey) Transcribed and Glossed Recordings of Sawriya Pahariya Malto. in Peri Bhaskararao (ed.), Research in Minority Languages in South and Southeast Asia: Working Papers II, ILCAA: Tokyo University of Foreign Studies. March 2007, 62-105 |
(with Bablu Tirkey) Malto basic words and sentences -- in comparison with Kurux. Research in Minority Languages in South and Southeast Asia: Working Papers, ILCAA: Tokyo University of Foreign Studies. March 2006. 1-34. |
Report on a Preliminary Survey of the Dialects of Kherwarian Languages. Journal of Asian and African Studies, 66, 2003, 331-356. (PDF 9.8MB) |
Recordings transcribed in this paper |
Conjunct Vowels and Voiced Obstruents in Old and Early Middle Japanese Poetry, Nihongo Keitouron no Genzai, 2003, Kyoto: International Research Center for Japanese Studies. |
Scripts I used for writing this paper |
Syllable rimes in Old Indo-Aryan and Dravidian, Journal of Asian and African Studies, 62. 2001: 91--106. (PDF 13MB) |
Nominal Compounds in the Yâjñavalkyasmrti (PDF). Zinbun 36-2, Institute for Research in Humanities, Kyoto (2001/2002). |
Historical Phonology of Old Indo-Aryan Consonants. Dissertation. December 2000. (Published from ILCAA, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, in November 2004) (PDF) |
Vedisch ríp- (Excursus to the below) (PDF). |
Die Namen der Erde -- Nighantu 1,1 als Beispiel einer frühen Vedaexegese--(2) (PDF). Kodai Bunka 48, Kyoto, Nov. 1996, pp.663-678. |
Die Namen der Erde -- Nighantu 1,1 als Beispiel einer frühen Vedaexegese--(1) (PDF). Kodai Bunka 46, Kyoto, Dec. 1994, pp.691-703. |
Presentations |
The Past Suffixes of Hill Korwa, International Seminar on Munda Linguistics, March 16-17, 2017, Deccan College PG & RI, Pune. |
Patañjali on borderline cases of compound classification, 16th World Sanskrit Conference, Bangkok, June-July 2015. |
インド・アーリア語における場所格の連体修飾, 第151回日本言語学会大会, 愛媛大学, November 29, 2014. |
小林正人、「マルト語の副動詞における冗長な活用の発生」、日本言語学会第144回大会、東京外国語大学、2012.6.16 |
yy and the development of Sanskrit semivowels. 13th World Sanskrit Conference, July 2006, Edinburgh. (pre-final proof) |
Panini and irregular retroflexion in Vedic Samhitas (PDF). 215th meeting of the American Oriental Society, March 18, 2005, Philadelphia. |
Development of Proto-Indo-European *sk into Sanskrit cch (handout, PDF). 12th World Sanskrit Conference, July 16, 2003, Helsinki. |
Phonological rhythm in South Asian languages. 212th meeting of the American Oriental Society, March 2002, Houston. |
Syllable-boundary rules in Early Old-Indo-Aryan and Dravidian (PDF). 210th meeting of the American Oriental Society, March 2000, Portland, OR. |
Materials I prepared for the metrical analysis: occurrences of overlong syllables (last updated: 3/20/2000) |
Bartholomae's Law and Root-suffix asymmetry in Sanskrit (PDF). 75th meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, January 2001, Washington, DC. |
Deocclusion of Sanskrit dh after front vowels (PostScript) 209th Meeting of the American Oriental Society, March 1999, Baltimore. |
The Usage of IDAM and ETAD in Yâska's Nirukta, 10th World Sanskrit Conference, January 1997, Bangalore. |
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