Christopher Davis

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Title

Associate Professor

Researcher Number(JSPS Kakenhi)

80647339
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Current Affiliation Organization 【 display / non-display 】

  • Duty   University of the Ryukyus   Faculty of Global and Regional Studies   international language culture program   Associate Professor  

  • Concurrently   University of the Ryukyus   Graduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences   Languages and Cultures   Associate Professor  

  • Concurrently   University of the Ryukyus   Graduate School of Community Engagement and Development   Associate Professor  

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Graduate School 【 display / non-display 】

  • 2015.09
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    2011.05

    University of Massachusetts Amherst  Department of Linguistics  Linguistics  Doctor's Course (second term)  Completed

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External Career 【 display / non-display 】

  • 2012.04
    　
    　

    University of the Ryukyus, Faculty of Law and Letters, Department of Languages and Cultures, Associate Professor  

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Research Interests 【 display / non-display 】

  • semantics, pragmatics, Ryukyuan, Yaeyaman, fieldwork

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Research Areas 【 display / non-display 】

  • Linguistics

  • Humanities & Social Sciences / Linguistics

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Published Papers 【 display / non-display 】

  • Expressivity and Sentence Types

    Christopher Davis

    Oxford Handbook of Expressivity     2026.01 [ Peer Review Accepted ]

    Type of publication: Research paper (scientific journal)

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  • Le dernier Metallica: Coercion, default gender, and reference

    Christopher Davis, Grégoire Winterstein

    Snippets   48   2025.10 [ Peer Review Accepted ]

    Type of publication: Research paper (scientific journal)

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  • Number, honor, and agreement in Hindi-Urdu

    Rajesh Bhatt and Christopher Davis

    Proceedings of (F)ASAL-12     2023.05 [ Peer Review Accepted ]

    Type of publication: Research paper (international conference proceedings)

  • From exclusive particles to adversative connectives

    Christopher Davis and Grégoire Winterstein

    Proceedings of NELS 52     2022.12 [ Peer Review Accepted ]

    Type of publication: Research paper (international conference proceedings)

  • Deriving categorical and continuous properties of Javanese speech levels

    Christopher Davis

    Proceedings of the Twenty-Eighth Meeting of the Austronesian Formal Linguistics Association (AFLA)     2022.06 [ Peer Review Accepted ]

    Type of publication: Research paper (international conference proceedings)

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Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research 【 display / non-display 】

  • A typology of the number category and its formal encodings in Japanese and Ryukyuan

    Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research(B)

    Project Year: 2023.04  -  2026.03 

    Direct: 7,000,000 (YEN)  Overheads: 9,100,000 (YEN)  Total: 2,100,000 (YEN)

  • Interrogatives and the Focus Particle "du" in Yaeyaman

    Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists(B)

    Project Year: 2013.04  -  2016.03 

    Investigator(s): Davis Christopher 

    Direct: 1,500,000 (YEN)  Overheads: 1,950,000 (YEN)  Total: 450,000 (YEN)

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    The focus particle "du" is found throughout Ryukyuan, and plays an especially prominent role in the grammar of Yaeyaman. This project looked into the syntactic and semantic properties this particle plays in Yaeyaman interrogatives, with the following results: (1) I collected new data on the relationship between the syntactic position of "du" and the part of the sentence that it serves to focus. (2) Yaeyaman does not have a Japanese-style question particle, but instead uses "du" in many interrogatives. On the basis of original fieldwork data, I proposed a theory connecting the semantics of "du" with that of interrogatives. (3) I collected data on plural wh-words, and developed theory of their semantics. (4) I created a large archive of Yaeyaman fieldwork sessions and natural speech.

  • Interrogatives and the Focus Particle "du" in Yaeyaman

    Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists(B)

    Project Year: 2013.04  -  2016.03 

    Investigator(s): Davis Christopher 

    Direct: 1,500,000 (YEN)  Overheads: 1,950,000 (YEN)  Total: 450,000 (YEN)

    　View Summary

    The focus particle "du" is found throughout Ryukyuan, and plays an especially prominent role in the grammar of Yaeyaman. This project looked into the syntactic and semantic properties this particle plays in Yaeyaman interrogatives, with the following results: (1) I collected new data on the relationship between the syntactic position of "du" and the part of the sentence that it serves to focus. (2) Yaeyaman does not have a Japanese-style question particle, but instead uses "du" in many interrogatives. On the basis of original fieldwork data, I proposed a theory connecting the semantics of "du" with that of interrogatives. (3) I collected data on plural wh-words, and developed theory of their semantics. (4) I created a large archive of Yaeyaman fieldwork sessions and natural speech.

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