Tomasz MAJTCZAK, PhD (pronounced ['majt.æsak], or MIGHT-chuck) associate professor (adiunkt) Department of Japanology and Sinology, Institute of Oriental Philology, Jagiellonian University, Cracow 75heizer(at)gmail.com [read (at) as @] FIELD OF RESEARCH Old and Classical Japanese, historical grammar and genetic relationships of Japanese, Altaic linguistics, Old Turkic CURRICULUM VITÆ born 12 August 1975, Wadowice, Poland 1999 MA in Japanese (Institute of Oriental Philology, Jagiellonian University) 2002 MA in Turkic (Institute of Oriental Philology, Jagiellonian University) 2004 PhD in linguistics (Faculty of Philology, Jagiellonian University) 1995-2002 assistant to the editor of Linguistica Baltica (volumes 4-10) since 2001 assistant to the editor of Studia Etymologica Cracoviensia (from volume 6 forth) since 2004 employed at the Department of Japanology and Sinology, Jagiellonian University 2004-2007 assistant professor (asystent) 2006-2007 acting head of the Department since 2007 associate professor (adiunkt) 2009-2010 chair of the Department for Japanese Language and Literature at the Faculty of East Asian Studies (Sektion für Sprache und Literatur Japans, Fakultät für Ostasienwissenschaften), Ruhr-Universität Bochum MEMBERSHIP Polskie Stowarzyszenie Badań Japonistycznych (Polish Association for Japanese Studies) CONFERENCES ORGANISED AND CO-ORGANISED 2001 Colloquium Pruthenicum Tertium, Zakopane, 26-30 September (co-operation) 2004 12 th Congress of the Indogermanische Gesellschaft, Cracow, 11-16 October (cooperation) 1
2007 Civilisation of Evolution. Civilisation of Revolution. Metamorphoses in Japan, 1900-2000. International Conference in Japanese Studies to Commemorate the 20 th Anniversary of Japanese Studies in Kraków and in Poznań, Cracow, 24-28 October (co-operation) CONFERENCES ATTENDED 2006 Beyond Borders: Japanese Studies in the 21 st Century. International Conference on Japanese Studies in Memoriam Wiesław Kotański, Warsaw, 19-21 May 2006 49 th Meeting of the Permanent International Altaistic Conference, Berlin, 30 July 4 August 2007 VII Międzynarodowa Konferencja Naukowa Stowarzyszenia «Bristol» [ Seventh International Conference of the «Bristol» Society ], Cracow, 17-19 May 2008 Teksty i podteksty w nauczaniu języka polskiego jako obcego (2) [ Texts and Subtexts in Teaching Polish as a Foreign Language (2) ], Łódź, 17-19 October 2008 Dziesięć wieków Genji monogatari w kulturze Japonii 1008-2008 [ Ten Centuries of «Genji Monogatari» in Japanese Culture 1008-2008 ], Warsaw, 20-23 October 2009 III Ogólnopolska Konferencja Turkologiczna [ Third All-Poland Conference on Turkic Studies ], Cracow, 28-29 May RESEARCHES ABROAD November 2002 January 2004: Tokyo University of Foreign Studies ( 東京外国語大学 ), The Japan Foundation Fellowship Program LANGUAGES SPOKEN Polish (native), English (British variety), German, Japanese, Turkish, Esperanto TEACHING EXPERIENCE Descriptive grammar of Modern Japanese, Classical Japanese grammar, Practical Japanese (basic level), Japanese script (basic level), General linguistics AWARDS, GRANTS &C. 2001 Stipendium zur Förderung weiterer wissenschaftlicher Studien, LIONS-Club Bochum- Kemnade, Germany 2
BIBLIOGRAPHY BOOKS AND MONOGRAPHS 1. 2008: Japońskie klasy czasownikowe w perspektywie diachronicznej [ Japanese verbal classes in a diachronic perspective, with an extensive English summary]. Kraków: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego, 147 pages. (Literatura, język i kultura Japonii, [6].) ARTICLES 1. 2001: Origin of transitive-intransitive verb pairs in Japanese. Studia Etymologica Cracoviensia 6.109-125. 2. 2004: A note on Old Turkic taŋlar-. Studia Etymologica Cracoviensia 9.103-110. 3. 2007: Of long nights and pheasant tails. Beyond borders: Japanese studies in the 21 st century. In memoriam Wiesław Kotański. Proceedings of international conference, Warsaw, May 2006. Edited by Agnieszka Kozyra & Iwona Kordzińska-Nawrocka. Warszawa: Nozomi, 212-218. 1 4. 2008: Interferencja w procesie przyswajania języka polskiego przez Japończyków [ Interference in the process of learning Polish by the Japanese ]; co-authored with Bożena Sieradzka-Baziur. W poszukiwaniu nowych rozwiązań. Dydaktyka języka polskiego jako obcego u progu XXI wieku [ In quest for new solutions. Teaching Polish as a foreign language on the threshold of the 21 st century ]. Edited by Władysław T. Miodunka & Anna Seretny. Kraków: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego, 169-184. 2 BOOKS EDITED, CONSULTATIONS &C. 1. 2003: Bożena Sieradzka-Baziur, Tetsushirō Ishii. Po polsku z uśmiechem. Komunikacyjny podręcznik języka polskiego dla Japończyków. Tokio: Tokijski Uniwersytet Języków Obcych, 345 s. ボジェナ シェラツカ = バジュル 石井哲士朗 微笑んでポーランド語 コミュニケーションのためのポーランド語教科書日本人用 東京 : 東京外国語大学 345 頁 [ Polish with a smile. A communicational Polish textbook for the Japanese. Tokyo: Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, 345 pages.] Japanese language consultation and editing. UNPUBLISHED DISSERTATIONS 1. 1999: Pary czasowników przechodnich i nieprzechodnich w języku japońskim i ich powstanie [ Transitive-intransitive verb pairs in Japanese and their origin ]. Cracow, 104 pages. (Unpublished MA thesis, written under the direction of Prof. Mikołaj Melanowicz.) 1 2 Not proof-read by the author, hence gravely misprinted. Again, not proof-read by the authors, hence gravely misprinted. 3
2. 2002: Język starotureckiej Księgi wróżb (Yrk bitig) [ Language of the Old Turkic Book of Omens (Yrk bitig) ]. Cracow, 105 pages. (Unpublished MA thesis, written under the direction of Prof. Marek Stachowski.) 3. 2004: Starojapońskie klasy czasownikowe i ich powstanie [ Old Japanese verbal classes and their origin ]. Cracow, 98 pages. (Unpublished doctoral dissertation, written under the direction of Prof. Wojciech Smoczyński.) 3 FORTHCOMING 1. 2009: Disappearance of the verbal noun in -((u)r)aku in the history of Japanese (from Man yōshū to Genji monogatari ). Studia Linguistica Universitatis Iagellonicae Cracoviensis 126, circa 20 pages. 2. 2009: From analytic to synthetic structural changes in early Japanese as exemplified by volitive expressions. Proceedings of the conference Ancient Japan origins and formation, circa 15 pages. 3. 2009: Kategoria causativum w języku japońskim [ The category of causative in the Japanese language ]. Studia z językoznawstwa japońskiego [ Studies in Japanese linguistics ]. Edited by Romuald Huszcza. Warszawa: Nozomi, circa 15 pages. 4. 2009: Non-syllabic description of Classical Japanese verbal and adjectival morphology. Civilisation of evolution civilisation of revolution. Metamorphoses in Japan, 1900-2000. Proceedings of the international conference in Japanese studies to commemorate the 20 th anniversary of Japanese studies in Kraków and in Poznań, circa 15 pages. 5. 2009: Rozwój semantyczny japońskiego kokoro serce [ Semantic development of Japanese kokoro heart ]. Inishie manabi, aratashiki manabi. Studia japonistyczne dedykowane Mikołajowi Melanowiczowi na dwudziestolecie japonistyki krakowskiej [ Inishie manabi, aratashiki manabi. Japanese studies dedicated to Mikołaj Melanowicz on the occasion of the twentieth anniversary of the Cracow japanology ]. Edited by Romuald Huszcza. Kraków: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego, circa 10 pages. 6. 2009: Wyrazy japońskie w tekstach do nauki języka polskiego dla Japończyków [ Japanese words in teaching materials for Japanese learners of Polish ]; co-authored with Bożena Sieradzka-Baziur. Proceedings of the conference Texts and subtexts in teaching Polish as a foreign language (2), circa 10 pages. 7. 2010: Gra japońskimi kartami (przyczynek do teorii badań kontaktów językowych) [ Playing Japanese cards (contribution to the theory of studying language contacts), with an English summary]. Circa 10 pages. 3 An amended and greatly enlarged version of this dissertation was published in 2008 as Japońskie klasy czasownikowe w perspektywie diachronicznej [ Japanese verbal classes in a diachronic perspective ], see above: Books-1. 4
IN PREPARATION 1. Gramatyka opisowa języka japońskiego. Wybrane zagadnienia [ Descriptive grammar of the Japanese language. Selected issues ]. Book, circa 200 pages. 2. Gramatyka klasycznego języka japońskiego [ Classical Japanese grammar ]. Book, circa 150 pages. 3. Old Turkic sü army its form, meaning and etymology. Article, circa 15 pages. 4. Old Japanese ko 2 ko 2 ro 2 heart and its external connexions. Article, circa 15 pages. 5. Some methodological aspects of studying Chinese borrowings in Old Turkic. Article, circa 20 pages. Updated: 1 September 2009 5