National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics

2012.03.30

The 22th NINJAL Colloquium;
Date: April 17, 2012 Time:15:30~17:00
Presenter: Professor Johan van der Auwera (Antwerp University)

2012.03.30

"Tohoku Hogen Onomatopoeia Yorei-shu" (Usage examples of mimetic vocabulary in Tohoku dialects) is released. (Japanese version only)

2012.03.30

Academic Employment Opportunities at Department of Crosslinguistic Studies, Open until 18 May, 2012

2012.03.29

(Call for Poster presentations)
NINJAL International Symposium on Valency Classes and Alternations in Japanese
Date：Augst 4- 5 , 2012
Venue:National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics

2012.03.26

Project-Meeting : Exploring the Variation in the Contemporary Japanese: Multiple Approaches
Project leader : AIZAWA Masao
Date : 21,April 2012 14:00~16:30

2012.03.26

Project-Meeting : Syntactic, Semantic, and Morphological Characteristics of the Japanese Lexicon Project leader : KAGEYAMA Taro
Date : 14,April 2012 13:30~17:10

2012.03.16

Project-Meeting : Contact Dialectology and Sociolinguistic Typology
Project leader : ASAHI Yoshiyuki Date :19,March 2012 15:00~17:00

2012.03.16

Project-Meeting : Japanese and the Typology of Linguistic Expressions for Motion Events: A Crosslinguistic Experimental Study with a Focus on Deixis
Project leader : MATSUMOTO Yo Date :27,March 2012 9:30~17:00

2012.03.09

International Workshop in Pune, India: "Toward the compilation of a Japanese-Marathi Basic Verb Usage Handbook: Past, Present and Future"
(Collaborative Research Project"Compilation of Japanese Basic Verb Usage Handbook for JFL Learners" ,Project leader: Prashant Pardeshi)
Date/Time: 25th March 2012 (Sun), 10 AM to 18 PM

2012.03.01

Project-Meeting : Adnominal Clauses and the Noun-Concluding Construction: Grammaticalization of Nouns,
Modal and Speech-Act Constraints on Clause-Linkage
Project leader : TSUNODA Tasaku
Date :10,March 2012 13:00~19:00 and 11,March 2012 9:00~15:00

2012.02.28

Project-Meeting : Analyzing Large-Scale Dialectal Survey Data from Multiple Perspectives
Project leader : Yasuo Kumagai Date :19,March 2012 14:45~15:45

2012.02.24

Project-Meeting : The Current States and Changes in the Japanese Spoken in the Metropolitan Area Project leader : MITSUI Harumi
Date : 12, March 2012 15:00~17:00

2012.02.24

The NINJAL Forum : "Rediscovering the Japanese Language: What Japanese and the languages of the world teach us about each other"
Date : Saturday, March 24, 2012
Venue : Hitotsubashi Memorial Hall

2012.02.23

Project-Meeting : Linguistic Variations within the Confines of the Language Faculty : A Study in Japanese First Language Acquisition and Parametric Syntax
Project leader : Keiko Murasugi
Date : 7, March 2012 10:00~18:00

2012.02.21

Project-Meeting :Historical Research on Japanese Grammar
Project leader : Hirohumi Aoki
Date : 4,March 2012 13:30~17:00

2012.02.17

Project-Meeting : Compilation of Japanese Basic Verb Usage Handbook for JFL Learners
Project leader : Prashant PARDESHI
Date : 25,February 2012 13:00~18:00

2012.02.07

"NINJAL Project Review" No. 7 was issued.

2012.02.02

The 1st Workshop on Corpus Japanese Linguistics
Date: 5, March 2012 10:00-17:00 and 6, March 2012 10:00-16:30

2012.01.31

Project-Meeting : General Study for Research and Conservation on Endangered Dialects in Japan
Project leader : KIBE Nobuko
Date : 18,February 2012 13:00~17:35 and 19,February 2012 10:00~15:30

2012.01.31

JLVC talk
Date : February 7, 2012 Time : 16:00~17:30
Presenter : Professor Xu Daming (School of Liberal Arts,Nanjing University)

2012.01.26

Project-Meeting :Syntactic, Semantic, and Morphological Characteristics of the Japanese Lexicon
Project leader :KAGEYAMA Taro
Date :18,February 2012 13:00~17:10

2012.01.20

Project-Meeting : Phonological Characteristics of the Japanese Lexicon
Project leader :KUBOZONO Haruo
Project-Meeting : The Japanese Lexicon: A Rendaku Encyclopedia
Project leader :Timothy J. VANCE
Date : 16, February 2012 11:00~17:00 and 17, February 2012 09:30~14:50

2012.01.19

Project-Meeting :Universals and Cross-Linguistic Variations in the Semantic Structure of Predicates
Project leader :Prashant PARDESHI
Date :4, February 2012 13:00~18:00

2012.01.12

The 20th NINJAL Colloquium;
Date: February 14, 2012 Time:15:30~17:30 Presenter: Professor Satoshi KINSUI(Osaka University)

2012.01.11

Academic Employment Opportunities at Department of Language Change and Variation,and Department of Corpus Studies,Open until 10 February, 2012

2011.12.26

Project-Meeting :Exploring the Variation in the Contemporary Japanese: Multiple Approaches
Project leader :AIZAWA Masao
Date :21,January 2012 14:00~16:30

2011.12.19

Project-Meeting ; " Interdisciplinary Study on Learning Japanese and the Reality of Language Life of Foreign Permanent Residents in Japan"
Date: 21, December 2011 19:00~21:00

2011.12.08

Project-Meeting ; " Empirical Study on the Role of Prosodic Features in Conversations"
Date: 17, December 2011 14:00~16:30

2011.12.08

Project-Meeting ; "A Study of Compositional Semantic Representation Based on Contextual Information"
Date: 27, December 2011 13:30~17:30

2011.12.06

Project-Meeting ; "Study on Documents and Languages for Designing a Corpus of Modern Japanese"
Date: 26, December 2011 13:00~17:00

2011.12.02

Project-Meeting : Adnominal Clauses and the Noun-Concluding Construction: Grammaticalization of Nouns, Modal and Speech-Act Constraints on Clause-Linkage
Project leader : TSUNODA Tasaku Date : 10,December 2011 13:00~19:00 and 11, December 2011 9:00~15:00

2011.12.01

Project-Meeting ; " Sharing of conversation corpora that coverdiverse styles and settings"
Date: 11, December 2011 13:00~17:30 (closed meeting)

2011.11.29

"NINJAL Research Papers" No. 2 was issued.

2011.11.29

Project-Meeting : Contact Dialectology and Sociolinguistic Typology
Project leader : ASAHI Yoshiyuki
Date : 9,December 2011 14:00~18:00 and 10,December 2011 10:00~13:00

2011.11.29

Project-Meeting :Field Research Project to Analyze the Formation Process of Japanese Dialects
Project leader : Takuichiro Onishi
Date : 17,December 2011 13:00~16:00

2011.11.24

Project-Meeting : Syntactic, Semantic, and Morphological Characteristics of the Japanese Lexicon
Project leader : Taro Kageyama
Date : 24, December 2011 10:30~

2011.11.24

The 19th NINJAL Colloquium;
Date: December 6, 2011 Time:15:30~17:30
Presenter: Dr.Jane Stuart-Smith (University of Glasgow )

2011.11.22

Project-Meeting : Analyzing Large-Scale Dialectal Survey Data from Multiple Perspectives
Project leader : Yasuo Kumagai
Date : 10,December 2011 13:50~16:40

2011.11.14

Project-Meeting :Formation Processes of Japanese Language Varieties and Creoles
Project leader :SANADA Shinji
Date :2,December 2011 15:00~18:00

2011.11.14

Project-Meeting ; "Foundation of Corpus Japanese Linguistics"
Date: 9, December 2011 17:00~18:00 (closed meeting)

2011.10.31

Project-Meeting : Form and Meaning in Japanese Complex Sentence Constructions
Project leader : Takashi Masuoka
Date : 17, December 2011 13:00~17:20 and 18,December 2011 10:30~16:00

2011.10.28

Project-Meeting :Interdisciplinary Study on Learning Japanese and the Reality of Language Life of Foreign Permanent Residents in Japan
Project leader :NOYAMA Hiroshi
Date :31,October 2011 17:00~19:00

2011.10.21

The 18th NINJAL Colloquium;
Date: November 15, 2011 Time:15:30~17:30 Presenter: Prof. Greville G. Corbett (University of Surrey )

2011.10.20

"NINJAL Project Review" No. 6 was issued.

2011.10.14

Project-Meeting :Study on Teaching and Learning Japanese as a Second Language in a Multicultural Society
Project leader :SAKODA Kumiko
Date :13,November 2011 13:00~16:30

2011.10.07

Project-Meeting :Universals and Cross-Linguistic Variations in the Semantic Structure of Predicates
Project leader :Prashant PARDESHI
Date :22,October 2011 13:00~18:30

2011.10.07

Project-Meeting ; " Foundation of Corpus Japanese Linguistics"
Date: 14, October 2011 17:00~20:00 (closed meeting)

2011.10.06

Project-Meeting : The Current States and Changes in the Japanese Spoken in the Metropolitan Area
Project leader : MITSUI Harumi
Date : 30,October 2011 14:00~16:10

2011.09.29

Project-Meeting :Adnominal Clauses and the Noun-Concluding Construction: Grammaticalization of Nouns , Modal and Speech-Act Constraints on Clause-Linkage
Project leader :TSUNODA Tasaku
Date :15,October 2011 13:00~19:00 and 16, October 2011 9:00~15:00

2011.09.27

The 17th NINJAL Colloquium;
Date: October 18, 2011 Time:15:30~17:30
Presenter: Dr. Anna Bugaeva (Waseda University)

2011.09.22

Project-Meeting : "Exploring the Variation in the Contemporary Japanese: Multiple Approaches"
Date : 8,October 2011 14:00~16:30

2011.09.01

Project-Meeting ; " Distribution of Vocabulary and Sentence Structures in Texts"
Date: 24, September 2011 10:00~12:00

2011.09.01

Project-Meeting ; " Study on Documents and Languages for Designing a Corpus of Modern Japanese"
Date : 23, September 2011 13:30~17:00 and 24, September 2011 10:30~12:00

2011.09.01

Project-Meeting ： Phonological Characteristics of the Japanese Lexicon
Project leader ： KUBOZONO Haruo
Project-Meeting : The Japanese Lexicon: A Rendaku Encyclopedia
Project leader ： Timothy J. VANCE
Date ： 1,October 2011 13:00~17:30 and 2,October 2011 09:30~12:30

2011.09.01

Project-Meeting : Syntactic, Semantic, and Morphological Characteristics of the Japanese Lexicon
Project leader : KAGEYAMA Taro
Date : 25,September 2011 10:00~16:10

2011.08.29

Project-Meeting ; Design of a Diachronic Corpus
Date : 16, September 2011 13:00~16:30

2011.08.29

Project-Meeting : A Study of ongoing changes in modern Japanese
Project leader : Naoya Niino
Date : 18,September 2011 13:30~18:00

2011.08.23

Project-Meeting :Contact Dialectology and Sociolinguistic Typology
Project leader : Yoshiyuki Asahi
Date : 2,September 2011 13:00~17:00

2011.08.19

Project-Meeting ; " Foundation of Corpus Japanese Linguistics"
Date: 3, September 2011 14:00~17:00

2011.08.19

Project-Meeting ; " Study of the history of the Japanese language using statistics and machine-learning"
Date: 2, September 2011 13:30~17:30

2011.08.18

International Symposium: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Oral History Data
Date : Sunday, Augustus 28th,2011
Venue : University of Hawai'i at Manoa (UHM)

2011.08.12

Our office will be closed from August 15 to 17 for summer vacation.

2011.08.05

Project-Meeting ; " Development of Classification Indices to Treat a Variety of Texts"
Date: 30, August 2011 9:40~12:00 Future University Hakodate

2011.07.26

Project-Meeting:Historical Research on Japanese Grammar
Project leader:AOKI Hiroshi
Date:30,August 2011 13:30~17:00

2011.07.26

Project-Meeting:Half a Century of Honorifics Usage and Attitudes toward Honorifics: Focusing on the Analysis of Survey Data from Okazaki City,Aichi Prefecture
Project leader:INOUE Fumio
Project-Meeting:Modeling of the Ecology of Writing and its Application to Sociolinguistics
Project leader:YOKOYAMA Shoichi
Date:28,August 2011 09:30~11:35

2011.07.22

Project-Meeting :Design of a Diachronic Corpus
Project leader :KONDO Yasuhiro
Date :31,JULY 2011 10:00~17:00 and 01, AUGUST 2011 10:00~17:00

2011.07.21

Project-Meeting :Structured Description of Kunten-Shiryo (Documents Written in Chinese with Signs for Rendering into Japanese)
Project leader :TAKADA Tomokazu
Date :13,SEPTEMBER 2011 14:00~17:00

2011.07.14

Memorial Lecture Meeting of Completion "Balanced Corpus of Contemporary Written Japanese (BCCWJ)"
Date: 2-3, August 2011

2011.07.07

Project-Meeting : Form and Meaning in Japanese Complex Sentence Constructions
Project leader : MASUOKA Takashi
Date : 11,September 2011 13:00~16:30

2011.07.05

Project-Meeting ; " Basic Research on Corpus Annotation"
Date: 19, July 2011 14:00~17:00

2011.06.28

"NINJAL Project Review" No. 5 was issued.

2011.06.21

Project-Meeting :"Phonological Characteristics of the Japanese Lexicon" "General Study for Research and Conservation on Endangered Dialects in Japan"
Date :16,JULY 2011 13:00~17:00 & 17,JULY 2011 09:30~13:00

2011.06.20

Project-Meeting :Field Research Project to Analyze the Formation Process of Japanese Dialects
Project leader :ONISHI Takuichiro
Date :17,JULY 2011 15:30~16:00

2011.06.14

Project-Meeting :Exploring the Variation in the Contemporary Japanese: Multiple Approaches
Project leader :AIZAWA Masao
Date :16,JULY 2011 14:00~16:30

2011.06.14

The 16th NINJAL Colloquium;
Date: July 12, 2011 Time:15:30~17:00 Presenter: Mr. Sean LEE（University of Tokyo）& Dr. Toshikazu HASEGAWA(University of Tokyo）

2011.06.10

Project-Meeting ; " Distribution of Vocabulary and Sentence Structures in Texts"
Date: 26, June 2011 14:00~17:00

2011.06.10

Project-Meeting :A Study of Regional and Generation Differences in Discourse Pattern
Project leader : INOUE Fumiko
Date : 31, JULY 2011 16:00~17:20

2011.06.07

Academic Employment Opportunities at Center for Corpus Development, Open until ５ July, 2011

2011.06.07

Academic Employment Opportunities at Department of Linguistic Theory and Structure, Open until ５ July, 2011

2011.06.04

NINJAL international conference on phonetics and phonology (ICPP 2011)
Date:December 10-14, 2011 Venue:Kyoto University

2011.06.02

The 15th NINJAL Colloquium;
Date: June 14, 2011 Time:15:30~17:30
Presenter: Prof. Polly Szatrowski（University of Minnesota）

2011.05.31

"NINJAL Research Papers" No. 1 was issued.

2011.05.31

Project-Meeting : Structured Description of Kunten-Shiryo (Documents Written in Chinese with Signs for Rendering into Japanese)
Date : 9,JULY 2011 10:00~12:00

2011.05.26

Project-Meeting ; " Foundation of Corpus Japanese Linguistics"
Date: 10, June 2011 17:00~20:00

2011.05.21

Associate Professor Usami is awarded The Special Prize of the Society for Teaching Japanese as a Foreign Language and The Hayashi Ohki Commemorative Prize of the Society for Teaching Japanese as a Foreign Language.

2011.05.19

Project-Meeting :"A Study of ongoing changes in modern Japanese"
Date : 18,June 2011 14:00~17:20

2011.05.19

Project-Meeting ; Half a Century of Honorifics Usage and Attitudes toward Honorifics: Focusing on the Analysis of Survey Data from Okazaki City,Aichi Prefecture" "Modeling of the Ecology of Writing and its Application to Sociolinguistics"
Date: 2,JULY 2011 14:00~17:00 & 3,JULY 2011 10:00~12:00

2011.05.09

Project-Meeting ; " Basic Research on Corpus Annotation"
Date: 21, June 2011 14:00~17:00

2011.05.09

Project-Meeting ; " Foundation of Corpus Japanese Linguistics"
Date: 20, May 2011 17:00~20:00

2011.04.28

Project-Meeting;"The Japanese Lexicon: A Rendaku Encyclopedia"
Date:4,June 2011 13:00~17:00 & 5,June 2011 09:00~12:00

2011.04.26

Academic Employment Opportunities at Department of Corpus Studies, Open until 26 May, 2011

2011.04.26

Academic Employment Opportunities at Center for Corpus Development, Open until 26 May, 2011

2011.04.21

Project-Meeting ; "Phonological Characteristics of the Japanese Lexicon" "General Study for Research and Conservation on Endangered Dialects in Japan"
Date:21 May, 2011 Time:13:00~17:30 & 22 May, 2011 Time:10:00~15:00

2011.04.21

The 14th NINJAL Colloquium;
Date: May 17, 2011 Time:15:30~17:30
Presenter: Natsuko Tsujimura（Prof., Indiana University ）

2011.04.18

Project-Meeting ; " Foundation of Corpus Japanese Linguistics"
Date: 4, June 2011 14:00~17:00

2011.04.14

Academic Employment Opportunities at Center for Corpus Development, Open until 31 May, 2011

2011.04.12

Project-Meeting;"Form and Meaning in Japanese Complex Sentence Constructions" Project leader: Takashi MASUOKA
Date: 7, May 2011 13:30~17:00

2011.04.05

Project-Meeting;"Adnominal Clauses and the Noun-Concluding Construction: Grammaticalization of Nouns""Modal and Speech-Act Constraints on Clause-Linkage" Project leader: Tasaku TSUNODA
Date: 23, April 2011 13:00~19:00 & 24, April 2011 9:00~15:00

2011.04.05

Project-Meeting;"Exploring the Variation in the Contemporary Japanese: Multiple Approaches" Project leader:Masao Aizawa
Date: 23, April 2011 14:00~16:30