User:Mark Irwin

Mark Irwin is associate professor at the Faculty of Literature & Social Sciences in Yamagata University, northern Japan. He graduated from Cambridge University in 1989 with a BA in Modern & Mediaeval Languages and subsequently went on to gain an MA in Advanced Japanese Studies from Sheffield University and then a PhD in Japanese historical linguistics from the same. His current research encompasses Japanese historical linguistics, more specifically historical phonology and morphology, as well as Japanese sociolinguistics and sociohistorical linguistics. He has also dabbled in the Sinoxenic, the study of those non- Chinese East Asian languages that borrowed both sinography and a large number of Chinese loanwords.