was a Japanese academic and writer. Born in

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, Hattori was a

linguist Linguistics is the scientific study of language. The areas of linguistic analysis are syntax (rules governing the structure of sentences), semantics (meaning), Morphology (linguistics), morphology (structure of words), phonetics (speech sounds ...

known particularly for his work on premodern Japanese and

Japonic languages Japonic or Japanese–Ryukyuan () is a language family comprising Japanese language, Japanese, spoken in the main islands of Japan, and the Ryukyuan languages, spoken in the Ryukyu Islands. The family is universally accepted by linguists, and sig ...

and the

Ainu language Ainu (, ), or more precisely Hokkaido Ainu (), is a language spoken by a few elderly members of the Ainu people on the northern Japanese island of Hokkaido. It is a member of the Ainu language family, itself considered a language family isola ...

. He was a professor at the

University of Tokyo The University of Tokyo (, abbreviated as in Japanese and UTokyo in English) is a public research university in Bunkyō, Tokyo, Japan. Founded in 1877 as the nation's first modern university by the merger of several pre-westernisation era ins ...

.Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric. (2005). "Hattori Shirō" in ; n.b., Louis-Frédéric is pseudonym of Louis-Frédéric Nussbaum, ''see'
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Selected works

In a statistical overview derived from writings by and about Shiro Hattori,

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encompasses roughly 150+ works in 200+ publications in 8 languages and 1,300+ library holdings. WorldCat Identities 服部四郎 1908-
/ref> *音聲學 (1951) * (1959) * (1964) *音韻論と正書法: 新日本式つづり方の提唱 (1979)

Awards and honors

Order of Culture The is a Japanese Order (decoration), order, established on February 11, 1937. The order has one class only, and may be awarded to men and women for contributions to Japanese Art, Japan's art, Japanese Literature, literature, science, technolog ...

*Indiana University Prize for Altaic Studies, 1983 *

Australian Academy of the Humanities The Australian Academy of the Humanities was established by Royal Charter in 1969 to advance scholarship and public interest in the humanities in Australia. It operates as an independent not-for-profit organisation partly funded by the Australi ...

, Honorary Fellow, 1984

Notes

References

*Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric and Käthe Roth. (2005)
''Japan encyclopedia.''
Cambridge:

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Academic staff of the University of Tokyo University of Tokyo alumni 1908 births 1995 deaths People from Mie Prefecture Recipients of the Order of Culture Corresponding fellows of the British Academy Linguists of Japanese {{Japan-linguist-stub