| Position | Professor |
|---|---|
| Faculty | Linguistics |
| Graduate School | Linguistics |
| Department | Linguistics |
Masato Kobayashi is a professor of Linguistics at the University of Tokyo. He earned his M.A. in Sanskrit from Kyoto University, and his Ph.D. in Linguistics from the University of Pennsylvania in 2000, under the guidance of Dr. George Cardona. He has worked on Sanskrit, Pāṇinian grammar, and Dravidian tribal languages. His publications include Historical Phonology of Old Indo-Aryan Consonants (2004), Texts and Grammar of Malto (2012),The Kurux Language (2017, co-authored with Bablu Tirkey), and Brahui Texts (2023, co-authored with Liaquat Ali).
Career
| March 1994: | M.A. in Sanskrit, Kyoto University |
| December 2000: | Ph.D. in Linguistics, University of Pennsylvania |
| April 2000: | COE Research Fellow, Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies |
| April 2001: | April 2001: Lecturer, Faculty of Business Management, Hakuoh University |
| April 2005: | Associate Professor, Faculty of Business Management, Hakuoh University |
| April 2007: | Associate Professor, Faculty of Education, Hakuoh University |
| April 2010: | Associate Professor, Faculty of Letters, Graduate School of Humanities and Sociology, The University of Tokyo |
Research Area
Historical Linguistics
1) Indo-European historical linguistics, especially historical phonology of Sanskrit; Nominal compounds in Sanskrit traditional (Paninian) grammar
2) Fieldwork on Dravidian tribal languages (Kurux, Malto, Brahui, Ollari) and comparative reconstruction of Proto-Dravidian
3) Linguistic description of Hill Korwa, an Austroasiatic (Munda) language
