KUANG Jingming | Faculty Members | Graduate School of Humanities, Kobe University. Faculty of Letters, Kobe University.

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KUANG Jingming, Ph.D. (Assistant Professor) [KUID]

Personal Background

KUANG Jingming earned her Ph.D. in Education from Hiroshima University in 2025 after completing the Doctoral Program in Teaching Japanese as a Second Language. She has been serving as an Assistant Professor at the Graduate School of Humanities, Kobe University, since April 2026.

Fields of Specialization

Syntax, Linguistic Typology

My research focuses on linguistics, particularly syntax and grammar. I am especially interested in how information is expressed in sentences, and in the relationship between sentence structure and meaning. Through cross-linguistic comparison, I examine both similarities and differences across languages, as well as the diverse ways in which grammatical phenomena are realized. I am also interested in applying these insights to language understanding and language education.

Major Publications and Papers

・KUANG Jingming and NISHINA Yoko (2025) A Study on the Constructional Typology of Agent Defocusing in Japanese and Chinese: Passive, Object-Topicalization, and Decausativization Constructions. Studies in Contrastive Typological Features of Languages, 8, pp. 265–287.
・KUANG Jingming and NISHINA Yoko (2025) The Flexibility of Causative Alternation and Syntactic Structure. Japanese Linguistic Studies, 84, pp. 141–160.
・KUANG Jingming and NISHINA Yoko (2025) A Contrastive Study of Constructional Preferences in Japanese and Chinese: Focus on Definiteness, Spontaneity, and Transitivity. Bulletin of the Graduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Hiroshima University: Studies in Education, 6, pp. 184–193.