NINJAL Colloquia

Lecture Meetings
NINJAL Colloquia

Lecture Meetings

An Introduction to Language Faculty Science: Definite Deductivism, Definite Experimentalism, and Methodological Minimalism, and how they can be applied to the study of the language faculty

Date	Monday, December 17, 2018 (13:00-17:00)
Venue	NINJAL
Speakers	HOJI Hajime (University of Southern California)

Sign linguistics for documentation: From theory to fieldwork

Date	Monday, December 10, 2018 (15:30-17:30)
Venue	NINJAL
Speakers	Sherman WILCOX (University of New Mexico)
Abstract	The goal of this presentation will be to offer a brief history of signed language linguistics with special relevance to documentation of Japanese Sign Language. We will cover the basics of the linguistic structure of signed languages, writing and notating signed languages, and the special sociolinguistic and cultural issues of working within the deaf community.

Formal Approaches to Japanese Tense and Aspect

Date	Thursday, September 18, 2018 (①10:00-12:00, ②13:00-15:00)
Venue	NINJAL
Speakers	Stefan KAUFMANN (University of Connecticut)
Abstract	The goal of this tutorial is to give an overview of the basic data, approaches, and results in the formal semantics of Japanese tense and aspect. For the sake of coherence we will stick to one particular theoretical framework, contrasting it with alternatives where appropriate. We will start with fundamentals (basic notions and distinctions; the formal framework for the analysis), then work our way in several stages through Japanese data of increasing complexity.

NINJAL Colloquia

NINJAL Colloquium series invites distinguished domestic and foreign researchers to talk about cutting-edge research findings in various fields of Japanese language, linguistics, and Japanese language education. The colloquia are 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	Speaker	Title
102nd	Tuesday, January 22, 2019 Time: 15:30-17:30	HAYASHI Kazuhiro (National Institute of Science and Technology Policy)	T.B.A.
101st	Tuesday, December 18, 2018 Time: 15:30-17:30	Kathryn JONES (IAITH)	T.B.A.
100th	Tuesday, December 11, 2018 Time: 15:30-17:30	Jong-Bok KIM (Kyung Hee University)	"Response Particles to Polar Questions: Parametric Differences Across Languages"
99th	Tuesday, October 30, 2018 Time: 15:30-17:30	HIRATA Yukari (Colgate University)	"Effects of Auditory, Visual, and Kinesthetic Training on Foreign Language Speech Learning"
98th	Tuesday, October 9, 2018 Time: 15:30-17:30	YAMADA Seiji (National Institute of Informatics)	"Current and future of AI"
97th	Tuesday, September 25, 2018 Time: 15:30-17:30	YAMAKOSHI Yasuhiro (Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa)	"Development of a Smartphone App LingDyTalk for Minority Language Community"
96th	Tuesday, September 18, 2018 Time: 15:30-17:30	Magdalena KAUFMANN (University of Connecticut)	"Topics in conditional conjunctions"
95th	Tuesday, August 28, 2018 Time: 15:30-17:30	SATO Shinji (Princeton University)	"Language Education as Everyday “Translingual Activism”"
94th	Tuesday, July 3, 2018 Time: 15:30-17:30	SADATO Norihiro (National Institute Physiological Sciences)	"Functional Neuroimaging Approach to Human Cognition: Towards Inter-disciplinary Collaboration between Humanities and Physiology"
93rd	Tuesday, May 29, 2018 Time: 15:30-17:30	Vasily V. SHCHEPKIN (Institute of Oriental Manuscripts of the Russian Academy of Sciences)	"On the Sources for the History and Dialects of Japanese Language Preserved in St. Petersburg"
92nd	Tuesday, May 22, 2018 Time: 15:30-17:30	KINSUI Satoshi (Osaka University)	"On "Topic""
91st	Tuesday, April 3, 2018 Time: 15:30-17:30	SHIMADA Junri (Meiji Gakuin University)	"Logics and Pragmatics of Cumulative Quantification"