The NINJAL Salon is a weekly meeting for presenting research papers in a relaxed atmosphere for the purpose of deepening exchanges among the researchers at the Institute. Attendance from outside is also welcomed. (Free of charge)

• Schedule: From 15:30 to 16:30 every Tuesday in principle
  (Including presentations, and questions and answers)
• Venue: Multipurpose room of the National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics

	Date	Presenter	Theme
43th	March 8, 2011	Kanetaka YARIMIZU	Dialect Change and Language Standardization in Japanese: An Analysis of LAJ and GAJ
42th	March 1, 2011	Motoki SANO	Classification of evaluative expressions and the construction of the Appraisal Dictionary of Japanese (attitude)
41th	February 22,2011	Takehiko MARUYAMA	(Un)grammatical structures in spontaneous speech
40th	February 8,2011	Kayoko SHIMOJI	On Topic Expressions in Tarama Dialect, South-Ryukyuan
39th	February 1,2011	Takuichiro ONISHI	Language change and the change of distributions of dialects
38th	January 25,2011	Eran KIM	Shift of the Loanwords to Basic Words in the Japanese Newspaper Vocabulary in the Second Half of the 20th Century
37th	January 11,2011	Kyoko KANZAKI	"Noun+no" phrases that behave like adjectives in their meanings
36th	December 14,2010	Harumi MITSUI	Tracking the diffusion of "tehoshii", an expression originated in the Kansai dialect
35th	December 7,2010	Masaru INOUE	Tense and Grammar
34th	November 30,2010	Wakako KASHINO	A Frequency and Context Analysis of Katakana Expressions for Non-loanwords and Archaisms Based on BCCWJ
33th	November 17,2010 (Wed)	William McClure (The City University of New York)	What We Can Learn through Learning Japanese: Language and Culture
32th	November 9,2010	Minoru YAMAIZUMI	Left-dislocation constructions and particleless NPs in Japanese: From the viewpoint of information structure
31th	November 2,2010	Prashant PARDESHI	Toward unraveling the correlation between volitionality and transitivity: A case study of the symbiosis of theoretical and experimental research
30th	October 26,2010	Alan Hyun-Oak KIM	The Ephemeral Old Japanese Subject Honorific Marker <si> and the Aftereffects of its Extinction in Grammaticalization
29th	October 12,2010	Mikio Giriko	Deaccentuation in loanword compounds in Tokyo Japanese
28th	October 5,2010	Masayuki Kobayashi	The illustrative Particle "demo" in Kyogen Daihon
27th	September 28,2010	Zendo Uwano	On the Narada Dialect
26th	September 21,2010	Manami Hirayama	Japanese Vowel Devoicing and Prosody: Maintenance of the Syllable and Mora Units
25th	September 15,2010	Shinsuke Mori	Natural Language Processing with Partially Annotated Corpora
24th	September 14,2010	Gakukin KYU	The Processing Problems of Japanese Kanji Words in Taiwanese Learners of Japanese: Based on the Results of Word Recognition Research
23rd	September 7, 2010	Yasunari Imamura	Relative clause constructions in Hindi and Japanese: Focusing on the so-called "external relationship
22nd	July 27, 2010	Hanae Koiso, Associate Professor(Department of Linguistic Theory and Structure)	Consideration on the incremental prediction model of turn-taking based on the quantitative analysis of Japanese conversations
21st	July 20, 2010	Noyama Hiroshi, Associate Professor(Center for JSL Research and Information) Oketani Hitomi,Professor(Eastern Michigan University)	A Longitudinal Study on the Sift of Japanese Language Proficiency and Life Pattern of Permanent Residents in Japan - A case of Japanese-Brazilian Students in Ａ City
20th	July 6, 2010	Yo Usami, Associate Professor(Center for JSL Research and Information)	Differences among JSL teachers' attitudes when evaluating letters of apology written by Japanese learners:Classification of the evaluation process based on a qualitative method
19th	July 6, 2010	Naoya Niino, Assistant Professor(Department of Language Change and Variation)	On the Misuses of Japanese Word Yakubusoku;Public Opinion Poll and Example-examination
18th	June 29, 2010	Atsushi Mori, Assistant Professor (Department of Linguistic Theory and Structure)	How do native Japanese speakers evaluate non-native speakers' essays?: Correlation between total and partial evaluation by Japanese-language teachers and non-teachers
17th	June 22, 2010	Tasaku Tsunoda, Professor (Department of Crosslinguistic Studies)	Contributions from Japanese linguistics to general linguistics
16th	June 15, 2010	Haruo Kubozono, Professor (Department of Linguistic Theory and Structure)	Word Formation and Phonological Structure
15th	June 1, 2010	Motoki Sano, Research Fellow (Center for Corpus Development)	Classifying the categories of clinical terminology: a corpus driven approach using the word frequency in the Balanced Corpus of Contemporary Written Japanese
14th	May 25, 2010	Kanetaka Yarimizu, Research Fellow (Department of Language Change and Variation)	Creation of the Database for the Research on Dialectological Distributions of Japanese
13th	May 18, 2010	Nobuko Kibe, Professor (Department of Language Change and Variation)	On the Language of Gonza's Textbooks : Eighteenth-Century Satsuma Dialect
12th	May 11, 2010	Takahito Abe, Research Fellow (Center for Research Resources)	A reassessment of "Politeness Level Assignment"
11th	April 20, 2010	Masaya Yamaguchi, Assistant Professor (Department of Corpus Studies)	Development of a writing aid system based on the mutual teaching model and its implementation in classrooms
10th	April 13, 2010	T. Vance, Professor (Department of Linguistic Theory and Structure)	Benjamin S. Lyman and sequential voicing - The discovery of a law
9th	April 6, 2010	Shoichi Yokoyama, Professor (Department of Linguistic Theory and Structure)/Takahito Abe, Research Fellow (Center for Research Resources)	Standardization of Dialect by the Life-long Assimilation