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Dr. Andrej Bekeš 
 
 
Andrej Bekeš, born in Celje, Republic of 
Slovenia on 4th July 1949 
Professor of Japanese Studies,  
Head of the Department of Asian and 
African Studies, Faculty of Arts, 
University of Ljubljana. 
Aškerčeva 2, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia 
e-mail: andrej.bekes@guest.arnes.si 
 
Education 
February 1971:  BS in mathematics,  University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Natural 
Sciences and Technology, Department of Mathematics and 
Physics; 
March 1975:  MS in mathematics, Osaka University, Graduate School, Master 
CourseProgram; 
March 1981:  MA in Japanese Linguistics, Osaka University of Foreign 
Studies, Graduate School, Master Course Program in Japanese 
Linguistics; 
March 1986: Ph.D. (Bungaku Hakushi) in Linguistics, University of Tsukuba, 
Graduate School, Doctoral Course Program in Languages and 
Literatures; Thesis Title: "Tekusuto to sintakusu" (Text and 
Syntax). 
 
 
 
 
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Employment 
November 1971 - September 1972: 
 Assistant of mathematics, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, 
University of Ljubljana; 
April 1986 - August 1988: 
 Researcher, Iskra Delta Computers, Ljubljana 
September 1988 - March 1990: 
 Assistant professor of Communications Research, Faculty of 
Social Sciences, University of Ljubljana; 
April 1990 - September 1995: 
  “Foreign professor”, University of Tsukuba, College of Japanese 
Language and Culture; 
October 1995 - October 2002: 
 Associate professor of Japanese Studies, Faculty of Arts, 
University of Ljubljana. 
 (October 1995 - September 1999) Head of the Department of 
Asian and African Studies. 
 (October 1999 - December 2001) Vice-Dean of the Faculty of 
Arts. 
November 2002 - present: 
 Full professor  of Japanese Studies, Faculty of Arts, University 
of Ljubljana. 
 (January 2004 - December 2008) Leader, Research program 
"Languages and Cultures of Asian and Africa" (Funded by 
ARRS). 
 (October 2006 - Sept. 2007) Vice-Head of the Department of 
Asian and African Studies. 
 (October 2007 – present) Head of the Department of Asian and 
African Studies. 
 
 
 
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Important Works on Japanese and Slovene Linguistics 
1987 Tekusuto to sintakusu  (Text and syntax), 172+xxi pp. Tokyo: Kurosio. 
1992 Imi no yuuensei to koozoo no haiarakii (Semantic affinity and structural hiearchy). In 
Hayasi Shiro (ed.) Ooyoo gengogaku kooza 4: Ti to  zyoohoo no gengogaku (Series 
Applied Lingusitics - part 4: Linguistics of knowledge and information), 127-157. 
Tokyo: Meiji Shoin. 
1995a Bunmyaku kara mita syudaika to "wa" (Thematisation from the point of view of the 
context and the particle "wa"). Oh. 7 in Masuoka Takashi, Noda Hisashi in Numata 
Yoshiko (ed.) Nihongo no syudai to toritate (Theme and prominence in Japanese). 
155-174. Tokyo: Kurosio. 
1995b Suroveniago ni okeru danwazyosi TUDI (dooyooni, mo) to ŠE (Particles TUDI and 
ŠE in Slovene) . In Gengo Bunka Forum (ed.) MO no gengogaku (Linguistics of 
particle MO). 283-313. Tokyo: Hituzi. 
1998 [Coauthor (8 authors)]. Kyoosi to gakusyuusya no tame no nihongo bunkei ziten 
(Dictionary of Japanese sentence patterns for teachers and learners).  693 pp, Tokyo: 
Kurosio. 
2000 Measures of topic continuity and the wa-topic in Japanese, Linguistica (Ljubljana), 
40( 2): 341-352. 
2001 Surovenia go no syoukosei (ebidensyaritei) ni tuite = A brief outline of evidentiality 
in Slovene'. Proceedings of the  Symposium of Slovene Language and Culture - 200th 
Anniversasry of Prešeren's Birth, Tokyo University Dec. 2, 2000. Tokyo: Nihon 
Surobenia kenkyuukai, pp 62-73. 
2003 Emergent boundaries within Japanese sentence. Asian and African Studies, 7(2):68-
88. University of Ljubljana Faculty of Arts. 
2006 Japanese suppositional adverbs in speaker-hearer interaction. V: TOLLINI, Aldo 
(ed.). The third conference on Japanese language and Japanese language teaching : 
Proceednigs of the conference, Rome, 17-19 March, 2005. Venezia: Libreria editrice 
cafoscarina, 2006, pp 34-48. 
2008 SRDANOVIĆ ERJAVEC, Irena, BEKEŠ, Andrej, NISHINA, Kikuko. Distant 
collocations between suppositional adverbs and clause-final modality forms in 
japanese language corpora. In: Large-scale knowledge resources : construction and 
application ; Third International Conference on Large-Scale Knowledge Resources, 
LKR 2008, Tokyo, Japan, March 3-5, 2008 ; proceedings, (Lecture notes in computer 
science, 4938), (Lecture notes in artificial intelligence). Berlin: Springer, 2008, pp. 
252-266. 
2008 Japanese suppositional adverbs : probability and structure in speaker-hearer 
interaction. Linguistica (Ljubljana) 48: 277-292. 
2008 Pragmatics of "boundary marking" in Japanese texts with special reference to WA-
topic and modal adverbs. In: OSHIMA, Hiroko (ed). Modalité et discours : 
linguistique japonaise, (Etudes japonaises, Vol. 4). Paris: les Indes savantes,str. 11-38.