Fuminobu Nishida
西田文信 Fuminobu Nishida was brought up in Gumma in Japan. His first degree was in Chinese literature at Keio University, Japan’s oldest university. After graduating, he spent two years studying linguistics at the University of Hawai’i at Manoa. After obtaining an M.A. in linguistics there, he worked in Japan for a couple of years. Having studied Tibetan and Burmese in Japan and Hawai’i, he went to Hong Kong for three and half years. At the City University of Hong Kong, he completed course work in linguistics, particularly Tibeto-Burman, and he participated in several conferences. His research continues to be focused on minority languages, especially in China, and he has also begun to study Austroasiatic languages. In addition, he has mastered Cantonese, a language which he uses on an almost daily basis. He has a continuing interest in describing hitherto undocumented languages in China and Southeast Asia as well as in comparative linguistics. When not at work, he enjoys swimming, hiking, reading and visits to the mountains of Asian countries. Fuminobu Nishida is currently working on Choyo, Mangde and Nàmùyì.
Selected publications
Nishida, Fuminobu. [in press]. ‘Namuigo ni okeru Kango karano syakuyō ni tsuite’ [Chinese loanword in Nàmùyì]. Kaipian: Journal of Chinese Linguistics.
Nishida, Fuminobu. 2005 c. ‘On henka ni kansuru oboegaki’ [A Note on sound change]. Chūgoku Kenkyū [Chinese Studies], 13.
Nishida, Fuminobu. 2005 b. ‘A Vocabulary of Nàmùyì’. Reitaku University Journal, 80: 213-223.
Nishida, Fuminobu. 2005 a. ‘Zai Honkon Nepārujin komyunitī no gengo sēkatsu’ [A Sociolinguistic Study of Nepalese in Hong Kong] Reitaku Forum, 16: 23-36. [in Japanese]
Nishida, Fuminobu. 2004 e. ‘Shohyō’ [Review: Languages and Himalayas: An Ethnolinguistic Handbook on the Greater Himalayan Region, Containing an Introduction to the Symbolic Theory of Language. By George van Driem. Leiden: Brill Publishers. 2001]. Reitaku University Journal, 79: 267-276. [in Japanese]
Nishida, Fuminobu. 2004 d. ‘Zonkago Gasa hōgen no on’in taikei’. [A Phonology of the Gasa dialect of Dzongkha]. Reitaku University Journal, 78: 13-29. [in Japanese]
Nishida, Fuminobu. 2004 c. ‘Zài Xiānggăng Níbóěrrén shèhuì de Yŭyán Shēnghúo’ [A Sociolinguistic Study of Nepalese in Hong Kong] Chūgoku kenkyū [Chinese Studies], 12: 71-78. [in Chinese]
Nishida, Fuminobu. 2004 b. ‘Temporal organization of Hong Kong Cantonese’. Kaipian: Journal of Chinese Linguistics, 23: 223-227.
Nishida, Fuminobu. 2004 a. ‘A Phonology of Syangja Gurung’. Reitaku Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies, 12 (1): 15-33.
Nishida, Fuminobu. 2003 c. ‘Honkonjin Nihongo gakushusha niyoru okaku no datsuraku’ [On the deletion of wo-case in Japanese by Hong Kong learners]. Nihon Gakukan: A Journal of Hong Kong Society for Japanese Language Teaching, 8: 23-29. [in Japanese]
Nishida, Fuminobu. 2003 b. ‘Honkon Kantongo washa ni yoru yūsē/musē heisaon no sanshutsu oyobi chikaku ni tsuite’ [An acoustic study of voiced/voiceless plosives in Japanese by Hong Kong learners; its production and perception.] Nihon Gakukan: A Journal of Hong Kong Society for Japanese Language Teaching, 7: 86-99. [in Japanese]
Nishida, Fuminobu. 2003 a. ‘Honkon Etsugo no daundorifuto ni tsuite’ [On downdrift in Hong Kong Cantonese]. Kaipian: Journal of Chinese Linguistics, 22: 322-327. [in Japanese]
Nishida, Fuminobu. 2002. ‘Chinese loanwords in Khmer. Part I. Lexical Comparison’. Kaipian: Journal of Chinese Linguistics, 21: 234-244.
Nishida, Fuminobu. 2001 b. ‘Seichō ni kansuru oboegaki’ [A note on tone]. Kaipian: Journal of Chinese Linguistics, 19: 159-173. [in Japanese]
Nishida, Fuminobu. 2001 a. ‘Seichō kenkyū kanren bunken mokuroku kō’ [A draft of a bibliography of tonal studies]. Kaipian: Journal of Chinese Linguistics, 18: 81-101. [in Japanese]
Nishida, Fuminobu. 1997. ‘Merger of Rising (Shang) Tones in Hong Kong Cantonese’. Kaipian: Journal of Chinese Linguistics, 16: 65-70.