Shintarō Arakawa

Shintarō Arakawa

Arakawa at the International Tangut Encoding Conference in Beijing, December 2013
Born May 1971
Citizenship Japan
Fields Linguistics
Alma mater Kyoto University
Known for Study of Tangut language

Shintarō Arakawa (荒川 慎太郎 Arakawa Shintarō, born May 1971) is a Japanese linguist who specializes in the study of the extinct Tangut language.

Biography

Arakawa graduated from the Faculty of Letters at Kyoto University in 1995. He stayed on for graduate studies at Kyoto University, from where he received his doctorate in 2002. Since 2003 he has been teaching at Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, with the position of associate professor since 2007.

Arakawa specialises in the study of the Tangut language, in particular Tangut phonology and the reconstruction of the pronunciation of Tangut characters. In 2006 he co-edited a Tangut-Russian-English-Chinese dictionary with Evgenij Ivanovich Kychanov, for which he provided the reconstructed Tangut readings. He has also published a number of studies of bilingual Tangut-Tibetan texts.[1]

Works

References

  1. van Schaik, Sam (20 July 2012). "New Publication". International Dunhuang Project. Retrieved 23 October 2012.


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