Assistant Professor Mayumi Adachi won the Shinmura Izuru Research Encouragement Prize FY2022

Mayumi Adachi, a member of DDDLing project, won the Shinmura Izuru Research Encouragement Prize FY2022 for her research on spatial and discourse deixis in Vietnamese, and sociolinguistic study of the Vietnamese community in Japan.

The awarded research achievements include a monograph “Spatial deixis and its development in Vietnamese: From demonstratives to sentence-final particles and interjections” (Bensei Publishing, May 2021), which was published as an outcome of the LingDy3 project.

This prize is awarded for promising research in general linguistics, Japanese linguistics, and related fields. The award ceremony was held at Kyoto Garden Palace on November 23, 2022. For details, please see here (in Japanese).

*This award is reported on the website of the Mainichi Shimbun (16 November, 2022); please see here (in Japanese).

(Posted 4 November, 2022)

(Updated on 26 November, 2022)