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Professor Bjarke Frellesvig holds the position of Professor of Japanese Linguistics at the University of Oxford and is an Official Fellow at Hertford College. His academic career spans institutions including the University of Copenhagen, University of Oslo, and multiple visiting roles at Japanese institutions. He served as Director of the Research Centre for Japanese Language and Linguistics in Oxford and leads the Oxford-NINJAL Corpus of Old Japanese project.
- Professor of Japanese Linguistics, Oriental Studies, University of Oxford (2008–present)
- Director, Research Centre for Japanese Language and Linguistics, Oxford (2009–present)
- Official Fellow, Hertford College, Oxford (1999–present)
His research focuses on the historical development of the Japanese language, particularly phonology, morphology, and syntax. He has published extensively on proto-Japanese reconstruction, Old Japanese corpus analysis, and transitivity alternations. Notable works include A History of the Japanese Language (2010) and the Oxford-NINJAL Corpus of Old Japanese (2018–ongoing).
Scientific awards include the largest Arts and Humanities Research Council grant (£990,000) for Pre-Modern Japanese studies and the University of Copenhagen Gold Medal for his dissertation. His research projects involve international collaboration with institutions like NINJAL (Tokyo) and British Academy partnerships, producing annotated digital corpora and dictionaries for Old Japanese studies.
