Education
He graduated with a bachelor"s degree from the University of Tokyo Department of Literature in Japanese Literature.
金水 敏
He graduated with a bachelor"s degree from the University of Tokyo Department of Literature in Japanese Literature.
Born in Osaka, Kinsui currently lives in the city of Nishinomiya in Hyōgo Prefecture. 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.
Gendai nihongo nyūmon 4: Imi to bunmyaku, Iwanami Shoten Publishers, 2000. ("Introduction to Modern Japanese 4: Meaning and Context") Copublished with Ikumi Imani Nihongo no bunpō 2: Toki to hitei no toritate, Iwanami Shoten Publishers, 2000.
("Japanese Grammar 2: Focus and Time/Negative Expressions") Copublished with Mayumi Kudō and Yoshiko Numata.
Iwanami kōza gengo no kagaku 5: Bunpō, Iwanami Shoten Publishers, 2005. ("Iwanami Course Series, The Science of Language 5: Grammar") Copublished with Takao Gunji, Yoshi Nitta, and Takashi Masuoka. Shirīzu Nihongoshi 4: Nihongoshi no intāfēsu, Iwanami Shoten Publishers, 2008.
("Japanese Language History Series 4: The Japanese Language History Interface" Copublished with Yoshihiko Inui and Katsumi Shibuya.
Shirīzu Nihongoshi 3: Bunpōshi, Iwanami Shoten Publishers, 2011. ("Japanese Language History Series 3: The History of Grammar") Copublished with Yoshiyuki Takayama, Tomohide Kinuhata, and Tomoko Okazaki.
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.