National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics

2014

2015.03.09: Publication; "Handbook of Japanese Phonetics and Phonology" (Handbooks of Japanese Language and Linguistics 2) has just been published.

2015.03.09: News; We will be performing maintenance to our network equipment on March 20-23, 2015.
During this period, you may experience interruptions on our some contents/services.

2015.03.03: News; Due to maintenance of network server "dbms.ninjal.ac.jp", a part of "Research on Japanese as a Second Language" service is stopped.

2015.02.24: Project Meeting; General Research for the Study and Conservation of Endangered Dialects in Japan (Project Leader: KIBE Nobuko)
Date: March 16, 2015 (13:00-17:00) Venue: Tohoku University Kawauchi-Minami Campus

2015.02.23: Jobs; Academic Employment Opportunities at Department of Language Change and Variation. Open until 20 April, 2015.

2015.02.23: Jobs; Academic Employment Opportunities at Department of Crosslinguistic. Open until 20 April, 2015.

2015.02.23: Jobs; Academic Employment Opportunities at Center for JSL Research and Information. Open until 20 April, 2015.

2015.02.20: Project Meeting; A Diachronic Contrastive Study of Japanese Interrogatives (Project Leader: KINSUI Satoshi)
Date: March 15, 2015 (13:00-18:50) Venue: NINJAL

2015.02.10: Publication; "Handbook of the Ryukyuan Languages" has just been published.

2015.02.10: Publication; "NINJAL Project Review" Vol. 5 No. 3 was issued.

2015.02.05: Project Meeting; Comprehensive Research Based on Large-Scale, Long-Term Studies of Japanese (Project Leader : INOUE Fumio)
Date : March 8, 2015 (13:00-16:00) Venue : NINJAL

2015.02.02: Event; The 7th Workshop on Corpus Japanese Linguistics
Date: March 10-11, 2015 Venue: NINJAL

2015.01.29: Jobs; Academic Employment Opportunities at Department of Language Change and Variation, Open until 9 March, 2015.

2015.01.26: Open Meeting: Field Research Project to Analyze the Formation Process of Japanese Dialects
Date: March 8, 2015 (13:00-16:30) Venue: NINJAL

2015.01.22: The 56th NINJAL Colloquium: "Aspects of Revision in the L1 and L2 Writing Process"
Date: February 17, 2015 (15:30-17:30) Presenter: ISHIGURO Kei (Hitotsubashi University, Global & International)

2015.01.21: Syntactic, Semantic, and Morphological Characteristics of the Japanese Lexicon (Project Leader: KAGEYAMA Taro)
Date: February 21, 2015 (10:30-17:20) Venue: The University of Tokyo, Komaba campus

2015.01.16: Research on Language and Education for Communication (Project Leader: NODA Hisashi)
Date: February 28, 2015 (13:30-17:00) Venue: Campus Plaza Kyoto

2015.01.14: We will perform network maintenance on January 17-18, 2015. During this period, some our service and contents will not be available.

2014.12.25: The 55th NINJAL Colloquium: "Semantic categories: The joint product of biology and culture"
Date: January 23, 2015 Presenter: Asifa MAJID (Radboud University)

2014.12.25: Academic Employment Opportunities at Department of Linguistic Theory and Structure. Open until February 2, 2015.

2014.12.19: Exploring Variation in Contemporary Japanese: Multiple Approaches (Project Leader: AIZAWA Masao)
Date: January 24, 2015 (14:00-16:30) Venue: NINJAL

2014.12.19: Typological and Historical/Comparative Research on the Languages of the Japanese Archipelago and their Environs (Project Leader: John WHITMAN)
Date: January 10-11, 2015 Venue: NINJAL

2014.12.04: The 54th NINJAL Colloquium: "Adverbial connective forms in Japanese: The te-form and some related forms"
Date: January 20, 2015 Presenter: MASUOKA Takashi (Kobe City University of Foreign Studies)

2014.11.28: Server Maintenance Notice.
Period: November 28-29, 2014.

2014.11.21: Foundations of Corpus Japanese Linguistics (Project Leader: MAEKAWA Kikuo)
Date: December 13, 2014 (14:00-17:00) Venue: NINJAL

2014.11.21: "NINJAL Research Papers" No. 8 was issued.

2014.11.21: Comprehensive Research Based on Large-Scale, Long-Term Studies of Japanese (Project Leader: INOUE Fumio)
Date: December 20, 2014 (13:30-17:00) Venue: Libra International Community Center

2014.11.21: A Diachronic Contrastive Study of Japanese Interrogatives (Project Leader: KINSUI Satoshi)
Date: December 6-7, 2014 Venue: Osaka University, Toyonaka Campus

2014.11.13: Japanese Language Variation Observed in Corpora -Corpora of conversations, dialects, learners' Japanese, and historical Japanese-
Date: December 6-7, 2014 Venue: NINJAL

2014.10.31: The 53rd NINJAL Colloquium: "Linguistic differences between Tsuruoka city and its suburbs"
Date: December 2, 2014
Presenter: INOUE Fumio (Tokyo University of Foreign Studies)

2014.10.30: Open Meeting: Field Research Project to Analyze the Formation Process of Japanese Dialects
Date: November 29-30, 2014 Venue: Toyama University Faculty of Humanities

2014.10.28: Japanese Language Variation and Change conference 2015
Date: March 7, 2015 (10:00-17:05) Venue: NINJAL

2014.10.28: Academic Employment Opportunities at Department of Linguistic Theory and Structure, Open until December 8, 2014.

2014.10.27: Research on Language and Education for Communication (Project Leader: NODA Hisashi)
Date: November 2, 2014 (10:00-13:00) Venue: NINJAL

2014.10.20: The NINJAL International Symposium: Typology and cognition in motion event descriptions
Date: January 24 - 25, 2015 Venue: NINJAL
Call for papers (oral | poster presentations) Deadline: November 5, 2014 (Japan time)

2014.10.09: Phonological Characteristics of the Japanese Lexicon (Project Leader: KUBOZONO Haruo)
Date: November 14, 2014 (13:30-17:45), November 16, 2014 (10:00-12:00)
Venue: Matsuyama University Bunkyo Campus (November 14), Ehime University Johoku Campus (November 16)

2014.10.09: Design of a Diachronic Corpus (Project Leader: TANAKA Makiro)
Date: November 9, 2014 (13:30-17:30) Venue: NINJAL

2014.10.07: "NINJAL Project Review" Vol. 5 No. 2 was issued.

2014.10.03: The 52nd NINJAL Colloquium "Advancement of ICT technology in language education and the future of teacher"
Date: October 28, 2014
Presenter: IMAI Shingo (University of Tsukuba/International Student Center)

2014.10.02: A planned power outage under legal inspection is scheduled.
Period: October 3, 2014 8:00 - October 5, 2014 15:00 (JST)

2014.09.19: A link to "The World Atlas of Transitivity Pairs (WATP)" was posted on Databases page.

2014.09.16: NINJAL Typology Festa 3
Date: December 13, 2014 (9:50-18:00) Venue: NINJAL

2014.09.11: The 51st NINJAL Colloquium "The history of the nominalizin particile 'no' and language change"
Date: September 30, 2014
Presenter: AOKI Hirofumi (Kyushu University)

2014.09.11: International Symposium "Crosslinguistics and linguistic crossings in Northeast Asia"
Date: November 28-29, 2014 Venue: University of Helsinki

2014.09.04: Phonological Characteristics of the Japanese Lexicon (Project Leader : KUBOZONO Haruo)
Date : September 28, 2014 (10:00-12:00) Venue : Tokyo University of Agriculture and Tecnology

2014.09.02: Studies of Interaction by Speakers of Japanese as a First or Second Language (Project Leader : YANAGIMACHI Tomoharu)
Date : September 21, 2014 (13:00-17:00) Venue : Hokusei Gakuen University

2014.09.01: "NINJAL-LWP for BCCWJ(NLB) Ver.1.30" is released. (Japanese version only)
We have added two synonymous word comparison function (e.g. hieru vs sameru, utsukushii vs kirei). For details see the manual available on the NLB site.

2014.08.08: News; On the temporary halt of public release of BCCWJ (DVD-release version)

2014.08.05: General Research for the Study and Conservation of Endangered Dialects in Japan (Project Leader: KIBE Nobuko)
Date: September 13, 2014 (14:00-18:00), September 14, 2014 (09:30-16:00) Venue: NINJAL

2014.08.04: The 6th Workshop on Corpus Japanese Linguistics
Date: September 9, 2014 (13:00-17:00), September 10, 2014 (10:00-15:00) Venue: NINJAL

2014.07.25: Typological and Historical/Comparative Research on the Languages of the Japanese Archipelago and their Environs (Project Leader: John WHITMAN)
Date: July 31, 2014 (13:00-17:00), August 1, 2014 (10:00-17:00) Venue: NINJAL

2014.07.23: We will be performing network maintenance between August 14 and August 17, 2014. During the period, some our service and contents will not be available.

2014.07.22: Constructing Vocabulary and Grammar Syllabi Based on the Difficulty of Japanese Acquisition Documented in Learners' Corpora (Project Leader : YAMAUCHI Hiroyuki)
Date : August 30, 2014 (13:00-18:30) Venue : NINJAL

2014.07.18: Our office will be closed from August 14 to 15 for summer vacation.

2014.07.09: Academic Employment Opportunities at Department of Linguistic Theory and Structure. Open until September 1, 2014.

2014.07.09: Academic Employment Opportunities at Center for JSL Research and Information. Open until September 1, 2014.

2014.07.08: The 50th NINJAL Colloquium "Entropy Reduction and the Subject Advantage in Relative Clause Processing across East Asian Languages"
Date : July 29, 2014
Presenter : John HALE (Cornell University)

2014.07.04: LabPhon14 Pre-Conference Colloquium
Date : July 24, 2014 Venue : NINJAL
Presenter : Bob LADD (University of Edinburgh)

2014.07.04: The 49th NINJAL Colloquium "DADDY, EDDY, NINNY, NANNY and BALDEY: Big Data for speech perception"
Date : July 24, 2014
Presenter : Anne CUTLER (University of Western Sydney)

2014.07.03: Research on Language and Education for Communication (Project Leader : NODA Hisashi, Sub Leader : USAMI Yo)
Date : August 7, 2014 (10:00-13:00) Venue : NINJAL

2014.06.20: Typological and Historical/Comparative Research on the Languages of the Japanese Archipelago and their Environs (Project Leader : John WHITMAN)
Date : June 27, 2014 (9:00-16:30) Venue : NINJAL

2014.06.19: We will be performing server maintenance on June 22, 2014 (13:00-17:00 JST).
During the time, some our service and contents will not be available.

2014.06.13: We will be performing server maintenance on June 17, 2014 (0:00-24:00 JST).
During the maintenance, some our service and contents will not be available.

2014.06.10: The website for "The World Atlas of Transitivity Pairs (WATP)" is now available.

2014.06.09: A Diachronic Contrastive Study of Japanese Interrogatives (Project Leader : KINSUI Satoshi)
Date : June 21, 2014 (12:45-17:30), June 22, 2014 (9:30-13:00) Venue : NINJAL

2014.06.06: The NINJAL International Symposium "FAJL 7 - Formal Approaches to Japanese Linguistics 7"
Date : June 27-29, 2014 Venue : NINJAL, ICU

2014.06.06: Field Research Project to Analyze the Formation Process of Japanese Dialects (Project Leader : ONISHI Takuichiro)
Date : July 6, 2014 (13:00-16:00) Venue : NINJAL

2014.06.02: "NINJAL Project Review" Vol. 5 No. 1 was issued.

2014.05.29: The 48th NINJAL Colloquium "Exploring Japanese Accent in OT Workplace"
Date : June 24, 2014
Presenter : ITO Junko (University of California, Santa Cruz)

2014.05.29: Constructing Vocabulary and Grammar Syllabi Based on the Difficulty of Japanese Acquisition Documented in Learners' Corpora (Project Leader : YAMAUCHI Hiroyuki)
Date : June 28, 2014 (13:00-19:00) Venue : NINJAL

2014.05.29: The Japanese Lexicon: A Rendaku Encyclopedia (Project Leader : Timothy J. VANCE)
Date : June 14, 2014 (16:00-17:30) Venue : NINJAL

2014.05.28: "NINJAL Research Papers" No. 7 was issued.

2014.05.22: Typological and Historical/Comparative Research on the Languages of the Japanese Archipelago and their Environs (Project Leader : John WHITMAN)
Hosted by NINJAL and Hokkaido University Center for Ainu and Indigenous Studies
Date : May 31, 2014 (9:45-18:00) Venue : Hokkaido University Center for Ainu and Indigenous Studies

2014.05.20: "NINJAL Survey and Guide 2014/2015" was issued.

2014.05.09: Project Meeting "Recent Research Based on the Oxford Corpus of Old Japanese"
Date: May 18, 2014 (13:15-15:30) Venue: NINJAL

2014.05.08: Phonological Characteristics of the Japanese Lexicon (Project Leader : KUBOZONO Haruo)
Date : June 22, 2014 (10:00-14:30) Venue : Kobe University

2014.04.30: The website for "A Handbook of Japanese Basic Verbs" is now available.

2014.04.21: The 47th NINJAL Colloquium "Order in language and thought"
Date : May 20, 2014
Presenter: KOIZUMI Masatoshi (Tohoku University)

2014.04.07: Constructing Vocabulary and Grammar Syllabi Based on the Difficulty of Japanese Acquisition Documented in Learners' Corpora (Project Leader : YAMAUCHI Hiroyuki)
Date : April 19, 2014 (13:00-18:00) Venue : NINJAL

2014.04.04: Modeling of the Ecology of Writing and Its Application to Sociolinguistics (Project Leader : YOKOYAMA Shoichi)
Date : April 20, 2014 (14:00-17:30) Venue : NINJAL

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