Academic exchange with Max Planck Institute, Germany and University of Oxford, England
(September 27 , 2010 / October 5, 2010)

As part of NINJAL's scholarship promotion and international development project, the current director of NINJAL, Taro KAGEYAMA, visited the German Federal Republic's Max Planck Institute and England's University of Oxford.

Last September 28, Director Kageyama had a meeting with Director Bernard Comrie of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, and based on the results of previous research exchanges, they agreed that both research centers would continue to actively exchange scholarship in the future.

Next, on October 2, Director Kageyama met with Director Bjarke Frellesvig of the Research Centre for Japanese Language and Linguistics (Oriental Institute, University of Oxford) about the construction of a premodern Japanese corpus, and they agreed that both research centers would collaborate research and deepen the exchange.

On the previous day, October 1, the Director attended a workshop for the premodern Japanese corpus* project based at the University of Oxford, and introduced his project of building a historical corpus based on the modern Japanese corpus. Also, at the JAPANESE/KOREAN Linguistics Conference, organized by the same university, he presented the keynote speech, "Distorted argument realization in agent incorporation", (10:00 am - 11:00am Friday 1 October).

In addition, at NINJAL, as part of our international research collaboration, because of a collaboration between the National Institutes for the Humanities and England's Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC), two researchers from the University of Oxford will stay at NINJAL from this fall until next spring.

*A corpus refers to a database for linguistic research, where data are systematically gathered, and information for research is added.