Satoshi Kinsui

Satoshi Kinsui (金水 敏 Kinsui Satoshi, born (1956-04-29)29 April 1956) is a Japanese Linguist, and he is currently a professor at Osaka University.

Biography

Born in Osaka, Kinsui currently lives in the city of Nishinomiya in Hyōgo Prefecture. He graduated with a bachelor's degree from the University of Tokyo Department of Literature in Japanese Literature. He then enrolled in the University of Tokyo Department of Literature's Graduate Program in Japanese Literature, but withdrew in 1982 to work as a tutor within in the department. In 1983, he began working as a lecturer in the Kobe University Department of Education, and then he moved to the Osaka Women's University in 1987. In 1990, he accepted a position as an assistant professor in the Kobe University Department of Literature. He later moved to Osaka University in 1998, where he was promoted to a full professorship in 2001. His research interests cover a wide variety of areas from Classical to Modern forms of Japanese, and it recent years he has been carrying out his research while advocating for and spreading awareness of the concept of Role Language.

Currently, he is a Trustee of the Society for Japanese Linguistics, a Committee Member of the Linguistic Society of Japan, Director of the Association for Natural Language Processing, Vice President and Committee Member of the Society for Japanese Grammar, and a member of the Science Council of Japan.

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