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The NINJAL Colloquim

The NINJAL Colloquium is a series to which distinguished domestic and foreign researchers are invited as lecturers to talk about cutting-edge research findings in various fields of Japanese language, linguistics, and Japanese language education. This is open to the public, so please feel free to join us whether you are a teacher or a graduate student. (Free of charge)

  • Schedule: Irregular, Once a month in principle
  • Venue: Multipurpose room or auditorium of the National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics
Date Presenter Theme
10th Tuesday, November 16, 2010
From 15:00 to 17:00
Peter Hook(University of Michigan ) Complex Predicates in Hindi-Urdu
9th Tuesday, October 19, 2010
From 15:00 to 17:00
Armin Mester (UC Santa Cruz, Visiting Prof. of NINJAL) On the sources of (un)accentedness
8th Friday, September 24, 2010
From 13:30 to 16:45
Robin Lickley (Queen Margaret University) Issues in the production and perception of disfluent speech
Dale Barr (University of Glasgow) Mutual understanding and the paradox of egocentrism in communication
7th Thursday, July 8, 2010
From 16:00 to 18:00
Park Jin-ho (Seoul National University) Structurization of Korean Kugyol materials from a computational pointof view
6th Tuesday, June 8, 2010
From 16:00 to 18:00
Masahiko Minami (San Francisco State University) Cohesion and coherence in narrative discourse: How to evaluate stories told by English-Japanese bilingual children
5th Friday, May 21, 2010
From 16:00 to 18:00
Michinori Shimoji (Gunma Prefectural Women's University) The importance of transcribed texts in syntactic description: the case of Irabu Ryukyuan
4th Saturday, May 8, 2010
From 14:00 to 16:00
Andrej Malchukov (Affiliate professor at the NINJAL, Department of Cross-linguistic Studies) Cross-linguistically rare patterns of case-marking and their theoretical implications
3rd Friday, March 19, 2010
From 16:00 to 18:00
Masayoshi Shibatani (Rice University, member of the NINJAL Management Committee) What connects theoretical studies and dialect studies?: The function and development of nominalization particles
2nd Monday, February 22, 2010
From 16:00 to 18:00
Junko Ito (University of California, Santa Cruz) Parsing constraints and the prosodic hierarchy
1st Friday, December 4, 2009
From 16:00 to 18:00
Sotaro Kita (University of Birmingham) Why does language express information linearly?: Insight from Nicaraguan sign language and children's gestures