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So Miyagawa | Curriculum Vitae
Georg­August­Universität Göttingen SFB 1136
Nikolausberger Weg 23 D­37073 Göttingen, Niedersachsen, Germany.
Tel.: +49 551 39­10859 • ​smiyaga@gwdg.de
https://uni­goettingen.academia.edu/SoMiyagawa
J​obs
Oct. 2015 – ​Research Fellow (Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter)
SFB1136 “Bildung und Religion in Kulturen des
Mittelmeerraums und seiner Umwelt von der Antike bis zum
Mittelalter und zum Klassischen Islam”.
Georg­August­Universität Göttingen. Göttingen. Germany.
Oct. 2015 – ​Research Fellow​ (​Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter)
KELLIA: Koptische/Coptic Electronic Language and Literature
Inter­ national Alliance (DFG/NEH)
Georg­August­Universität Göttingen. Göttingen. Germany.
Apr. 2015 – Sep. 2015 ​Research Fellow (Tokubetsu Kenkyūin DC1)
Japan Society for the Promotion of Science. Japan.
Apr. 2014 – Mar. 2015 ​Tutor
Kyoto University, Faculty of Letters, Kyoto​. Japan.
Education
2015­ ​Georg­August­Universität Göttingen
Doctorate Course in Coptology
2015­ ​Kyoto University
Doctorate Course in Linguistics
2013­2015 ​Kyoto University
Master of Arts in Linguistics
GPA 4.00 (max. 4.00)
2009­2013 ​Hokkaido Univeristy
Bachelor of Arts in Linguistics and Informatics
GPA 3.75 (max. 4.00), ​Valedictorian of the Faculty of
Letters at the graduation ceremony (because of the
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2. highest GPA), ​Hokkaido University Clark Prize
(similar to ​Summa cum Laude​ in​ the United States.
This prize was given to four students in each faculty
who got highest GPA)
Internship
Aug. 2015­ Aug. 2015 Database and Dictionary of Greek Loanwords in Coptic (DDGLC)
http://research.uni­leipzig.de/ddglc/
Universität Leipzig. Leipzig, Germany.
Special Seminars and Summer Schools
2015 Jul. – Aug.: ​Summer School: The Coptic Bible and Coptic Literature
in the Digital Age.
​https://www.uni­goettingen.de/en/517807.html
Georg­August­Universität Göttingen & Universität Hamburg.
Göttingen & Hamburg. Germany.
2015 Jul. ​The 11th Leiden Summer School in Languages and
(participated just for one week ​Linguistics.
because of the summer school above) ​http://www.hum.leiden.edu/summerschool/programmes­
2015/
Introduction to Papyrology & Reading Greek Papyri
Leiden University, the Netherlands
2015 Feb.: ​DocLing 2015​.
​http://lingdy.aacore.jp/en/activity/docling/2015.html
Tokyo University of Foreign Studies. Tokyo. Japan.
2014 Dec.–2015 Jan.: ​Chūki­ejiputogokōza [Seminar of Middle Egyptian].
​http://www.kansai­u.ac.jp/calendar/archives/2015/10/
post_742.html
Kansai University. Osaka. Japan.
2014 Jul.–Aug.: ​Bloomsbury Summer School.
​http://www.egyptology­uk.com/bloomsbury/index.htm
­ READING HIEROGLYPHS: WISDOM FOR THIS
LIFE AND THE NEXT
­ DEITIES AND DEMONS: THE MYTHOLOGY OF
ANCIENT EGYPT.
University College London. London. UK.
2014 Jul.: ​The 5th International Seminar of Coptic Papyrology
​http://media.leidenuniv.nl/legacy/seminar­coptic­
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Pompeu Fabra University. Barcelona. Spain.
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4. Academic Awards
2013 ​Hokkaidōdaigaku Kurākushō [Hokkaido University Clark Prize]
​For 4 students of the highest GPA at the graduation
equivalent to ​Summa cum Laude
2010 ​Hokkaidōdaigaku Nitobeshō [Hokkaido University Nitobe Prize]
For students of the highest GPA at the end of the 1st year.
Ph.D. Theme
Text Re­Use in Shenoute and Besa ​University:
Georg­August­Universität Göttingen
Coptology
Supervisors:
Prof. Dr. Heike Behlmer
Dr. Alin Suciu
Demonstratives and Definite Articles in Egyptian­Coptic University:
Kyoto University
Linguistics
Supervisors:
Prof. Yutaka Yoshida
Prof. Dr. Kazuhiko Yoshida
Prof. Dr. Shuntaro Tida
Dr. Adam A. Catt
Master’s Thesis
Chū­ejiputogo no Shijishi ni tsuite ​University:
[Demonstratives in Middle Egyptian​] Kyoto University
Linguistics
Supervisors:
Prof. Yutaka Yoshida
Prof. Dr, Kazuhiko Yoshida
Prof. Dr. Yukinori Takubo
Prof. Dr. Shuntaro Tida
Dr. Adam A. Catt
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5. Academic Publications
to appear: “​Koputo­ejiputogo Saīdohōgen ni okeru On’inronteki Kōsokukeitaisojō
no Sūpurariniāsutorōku [Suptralinear Strokes on Phonological Bound Morphs in
Sahidic Coptic]”.
Gengokijutsuronshū [Journal for Descriptive Linguistics]​, 8.
to appear: ​“A receipt and a letter”.
In: Anne Boud’hors (ed.) ​Coptica Barcinonensia. Texts and Documents from the 5th
International Seminar of Coptic Papyrology (Barcelona, 6­13 July 2014).
2014: “​Koputo­ejiputogo Saīdohōgen ni okeru Sūpurariniāsutorōku:Jiyūkeitaiso o
Chūshinni [Supralinear Strokes in Sahidic Coptic: On Free Morphs]”.
Gengokijutsuronshū [Journal for Descriptive Linguistics]​, 6. 141­154.
2014: “​Chōfukugono Yūkeisei: Gengoruikeiron no Shitenkara
[Linguistic Motivation of Reduplicated Words: from Typological Perspectives]”.
Nihon Ninchigengogakkai Ronbunshū[Papers from the National Conference of the
Japanese Cognitive Linguistics Association]​, 14, 490­496.
http://repository.kulib.kyoto­u.ac.jp/dspace/handle/2433/198574
Academic Presentations
Apl. 2016: (with Kirill Bulert) ​“Coptic OCR”
Workshop on Super Computing in the Humanities.
Gesellschaft für wissenschaftliche Datenverarbeitung mbH
Göttingen. Göttingen. Germany.
Feb. 2016: ​“Demonstratives and Spatial Calculation in Middle Egyptian”​.
Crossroads: Whence and Whither? Egyptian­Coptic Linguistics in Comparative
Perspectives. ​Poster Session.
Humboldt­Universität zu Berlin, Berlin­Brandenburgische Akademie der
Wissenschaften, and the Excellence Cluster Topoi. Berlin. Germany.
https://www.academia.edu/22150810/Demonstratives_and_Spatial_Calculation
_in_Middle_Egyptian
Jan. 2016: ​“A fast and easy way to type hieroglyphs: The Progress of the HieroJIS
Project”
Die Ägyptologie in Göttingen: Stand der Forschung.
Georg­August­Universität Göttingen. Göttingen. Germany.
Nov. 2015: ​“An Intuitive Unicode Input Method for Ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphic
Writing: Applying the Input Technology of the Japanese Writing
System”.
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6. Altertumswissenschaften in a Digital Age: Egyptology, Papyrology and
Beyond.
Universität Leipzig. Leipzig. Germany.
Aug. 2015: ​“[Independent Personal Pronoun + Copula + Noun] Constructions in
Later Egyptian”.
The 11th International Congress for Egyptologists.
The University of Florence. Florence. Italy.
Jun. 2015: ​“Koputogo no Nijūkanshi [Sequence of Articles in Coptic]”​.
The 150th Congress of the Linguistics Society of Japan.
Daito Bunka University.Tokyo. Japan.
Apr. 2015: “Koputogo Saīdohōgen no Honyakubungaku to Hihonyakubungaku to
no Aida no Gengoshiyō no Sa [Linguistic Differences between Literary
Manuscripts and non­Literary Mnuascripts in Sahidic Coptic]”​.
The 1st meeting of the Society of Eastern Christian Area Studies.
Kyoto University. Kyoto. Japan.
Mar. 2015: ​“Synthesis, Boundness and Clitics in Sahidic Coptic”​.
Digital Coptic 2.
Georgetown University. Washington, D.C. USA.
Jan. 2015: ​“Koputo­ejiputogo ni okeru Kopyurabun [Copulative Sentences in
Coptic Egyptian]”​.
The 9th Grammatical Studies Workshop of the Research Institute for
Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa (ILCAA).
Tokyo University of Foreign Studies. Tokyo. Japan.
Nov. 2014: ​“Koputogo ni okeru Fukusūteikanshi [Plural Definite Article in Coptic]”.
The annual conference of Japan Society for Historical Linguistics.
National Museum of Ethnology. Osaka. Japan.
Sep. 2014: “​Ejiputogo no Hierogurifu ni okeru Mojicho ̄fuku to Ruizōsei:
Ninchirekishimojiron no Kakuritsu ni mukete [Reduplication and Iconicity
in the Egyptian Hieroglyphic Writings: Toward Historical Grammatology
in Cognitive Linguistics]”.
The 16th Congress of the Japanese Cognitive Linguistics Association.
Keio University. Tokyo. Japan. ​Poster Session.
Jul. 2014: “​P. Palau­Rib. inv. 353: A 8­9th century Coptic letter written by Makarios
and Memoranda”.
The 5th International Seminar fo Coptic Papyrology.
Pompeu Fabra University. Barcelona. Spain. (as a student presentation).
Jun. 2014: ​“Koputo­ejiputogo no Tadōshi no ‘Zenmeishikei no Keidōshisei to
Bunpōka [The “Prenominal” Form of Verbs in Coptic Egyptian:
Light­verbs and Grammaticalization]”.
The 148th Congress of the Linguistics Society of Japan.
Hosei University. Tokyo. Japan.
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Mar. 2014: “​Koputo­ejiputogo ni okeru Gengosesshoku to Goishakuyō [Language
Contact and Lexical Borrowing in Coptic Egyptian]”.
The monthly meeting of the Society of Descriptive Linguistics.
Kyoto University. Kyoto. Japan.
Mar. 2014: ​“FieldWorks Language Explorer o Mochi’ita Bunpōkenkyū [Grammatical
Analysis through FieldWorks Language Explorer]”.
The monthly meeting of the Society of Descriptive Linguistics.
Kyoto University. Kyoto. Japan.
Feb. 2014: ​“Koputogo Saīdohōgen no Fukusūsei [Plurality in Sahidic Coptic]”.
The 5th Grammatical Studies Workshop of the Research Institute for
Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa (ILCAA).
Tokyo University of Foreign Studies. Tokyo. Japan.
Dec. 2013: ​“Koputogo Saīdohōgen no Boin’on’inron [Phonology of Vowels in
Sahidic Coptic]”.
The annual congress of Association of West Asian Languages.
Kyoto Sangyo University. Kyoto. Japan.
Nov. 2013: ​“Iconical Explanation on the Iterative and Imperfective Reduplications
of Sumerian Verbs”.
NINJAL International Symposium 2013, ‘Mysteries Verb­Verb Complexes in
Asian Languages.’
National Institute of Japanese Language and Linguistics (NINJAL). Tokyo.
Japan.
Nov. 2013: ​“Koputogo Saīdohōgen ni okeru Bointaikei [Sahidic Coptic Vowel
System]”.
The monthly meeting of the Society for Descriptive Lingusitics.
Kyoto University. Kyoto. Japan.
Nov. 2013: ​“Shumērugo no Meishichōfuku: ePSD ni okeru Jidaiteki Chi’ikiteki
Shutsugenhindo to Sono Goika [Sumerian Noun Reduplication:
Periodical and Regional Frequency and its Lexicaliza­ tion in ePSD]”.
The 3rd Congress of the Japan Society for Historical Linguistics.
Tohoku University. Sendai. Japan. ​Poster Session.
Oct. 2013: ​“Kyōtonanbuhōgen ni okeru Chōfukukeiyōshi [Adjective Reduplication
in Southern Kyoto Japanese]”​.
Doyō Kotoba no Kai. Osaka University. Osaka. Japan.
Sep. 2013: ​“Chōfukugo no Yūkeisei: Gengoruikeiron no Shiten kara [Linguistic
Motivation of Reduplicated Words: from Typological Perspectives]”.
The 15th Congress of the Japanese Cognitive Linguistics Association.
Kyoto Univeristy of Foreign Studies. Kyoto. Japan.
May. 2013: ​“Maorigo Shakuyōgo ni okeru Shi’injitsugen [Consonants in Loanword
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The monthly meeting of the Society for Descriptive Lingusitics.
Kyoto University. Kyoto. Japan.
Translations
2014­10 Conference translation
Languages Learned at Universities and Schools
Coptic, Ancient Greek, Old Egyptian, Middle Egyptian, Late Egyptian, Demotic, Hebrew
(Biblical, Mishnaic, Modern), Latin, Sanskrit, Pali, Sumerian, Old Irish, Tocharian, German (I
got an "Oberstufe" (advanced level) at the replacement test of Georg­August­Universität
Göttingen), English, French, Dutch, Italian, Korean, Chinese (Classical, Modern Mandarin),
Ainu, Czech, Polish, Russian, Classical Japanese, Avestan, Arabic, Finnish
Languages Learned in Study Groups
Modern Hebrew, Syriac, Luxembourgish
Languages Learned from Private Teachers
Swedish, Egyptian Arabic
Languages Learned at a Mosque
Modern Standard Arabic
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Languages Learned by Myself
Old Nubian, Akkadian, Syriac, Hurrian, Tagalog, Ponapean, Yiddish
Experiences
NLTK, Python, Sphinx, Ruby, Ruby on Rails, XML, XSLT, Pearl, WordSmith, AntConc,
SublimeText, JavaScript, HTML, CSS, GitHub, GitLab, Ocropy, TEI, EpiDoc, PaulaXML,
LaTeX, XeLaTeX, Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Powerpoint, Keynote,
FileMaker Pro, Bootscrap, JQuery, reStructuredText, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrtor,
Affinity Designer, Affinity Photo, Scan Tailor, Tesseract, Finereader Pro, Oxygen XML Editor,
Evernote, Microsoft OneNote, PDF Expert, Cyberduck, eXistdb, regular expressions,
pandas, matplotlib, numpy, scipy, EPWING, markdown, Sphinx, Glyph
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