National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics

2015

2016.03.31: Database; "Learners' L1-Japanese Contrastive Databases" is now available at http://contr-db.ninjal.ac.jp/

2016.03.31: Database; Electric data of "Association Word Lists of Children" is available at http://mmsrv.ninjal.ac.jp/wordlists/#association

2016.03.31: Database; Electric data of "Research on basic vocabulary for learners of Japanese" is available at http://mmsrv.ninjal.ac.jp/wordlists/#basic_vocaburary

2016.03.31: Database; Okinawago (Okinawa Language) dictionary database is now available at http://mmsrv.ninjal.ac.jp/okinawago/

2016.03.24: Jobs; Academic Employment Opportunities. Open until March 30, 2016.

2016.03.23: Database; "A Glossed Audio Corpus of Ainu Folklore" is now available at http://ainucorpus.ninjal.ac.jp/ .

2016.03.22: Jobs; Academic Employment Opportunities at Project Assistant Professor. Open until May 13, 2016.

2016.03.16: Publication; "NINJAL Project Review" Vol. 6 No. 3 was issued.

2016.03.01: Jobs; Academic Employment Opportunities at Professor. Open until April 28, 2016.

2016.02.23: News; The Research Library will be closed from Thursday, March 24 to Friday, March 25.

2016.02.17: Publication; "Handbook of Japanese Lexicon and Word Formation" (Handbooks of Japanese Language and Linguistics 3) has just been published.

2016.02.17: Publication; "Handbook of Japanese Applied Linguistics" (Handbooks of Japanese Language and Linguistics 10) has just been published.

2016.02.12: Jobs; Academic Employment Opportunities. Open until March 14, 2016.

2016.02.10: Event; The 68th NINJAL Colloquium: "Grammaticalization of DESU and MASU: Steps toward a Preferred Word Order"
Date: Tuesday, March 8, 2016, Venue: NINJAL
Speaker: SUNAKAWA Yuriko (University of Tsukuba，Professor Emeritus)

2016.02.05: Database; "Academic Repository of the National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics" is now available at https://repository.ninjal.ac.jp .

2016.01.29: Publication; "NINJAL Research Papers" No. 10 was issued.

2016.01.28: Jobs; Academic Employment Opportunities. Open until February 10, 2016.

2016.01.15: Project Meeting; Research on Language and Education for Communication ( Project Leader: NODA Hisashi)
Date: February 27, 2016 (13:30-17:00), Venue : TKP Garden City Hakata Annex

2015.12.24: Project Meeting; Exploring Variation in Contemporary Japanese: Multiple Approaches (Project Leader: AIZAWA Masao)
Date: January 24, 2016 (13:30-17:00), Venue: NINJAL

2015.12.24: Event; Kick-off Workshop "Interactions between Word Prosody and Sentence Prosody"
Date: January 10, 2016 (13:00-18:00), January 11, 2016 (10:00-15:30), Venue: NINJAL

2015.12.24: Jobs; Academic Employment Opportunities. Open until February 1, 2016.

2015.12.22: Event; The 67th NINJAL Colloquium: "On description of vernacular: Basal layer in idiolect"
Date: Tuesday, February 2, 2016, Venue: NINJAL
Speaker: SANADA Shinji (Nara University)

2015.12.04: Project Meeting; A Diachronic Contrastive Study of Japanese Interrogatives (Project Leader: KINSUI Satoshi)
Date: December 19, 2015 (8:40-18:30), December 20, 2015 (9:00-18:00), Venue: NINJAL

2015.12.01: Event; The 66th NINJAL Colloquium: "A Corpus of Spoken French: ESLO"
Date: Tuesday, January 19, 2016, Venue: NINJAL
Speaker: Gabriel Bergounioux (University of Orléans)

2015.11.18: Database; "Database of Japanese Language Learners' Conversation" is now available on http://nknet.ninjal.ac.jp/nknet/.

2015.11.13: Event; The 65th NINJAL Colloquium: "Corpus-linguistic analysis of conversational interaction"
Date: Friday, December 11, 2015, Venue: NINJAL
Presenter: DEN Yasuharu (Chiba University)

2015.11.13: Event; The 64th NINJAL Colloquium: "The Ancient Ethnolinguistic History of the Japanese Archipelago"
Date: Tuesday, December 8, 2015, Venue: NINJAL
Presenter: Alexander VOVIN (École des hautes études en sciences sociales: EHESS)

2015.11.13: Project Meeting; Typological and Historical/Comparative Research on the Languages of the Japanese Archipelago and their Environs (Project Leader: John WHITMAN)
Date: December 5, 2015 (13:30-18:50), December 6, 2015 (10:30-14:30), Venue: NINJAL

2015.11.13: Jobs; Academic Employment Opportunities. Open until December 24, 2015.

2015.11.04: Project Meeting; Phonological Characteristics of the Japanese Lexicon (Project Leader: KUBOZONO Haruo)
Date: November 27, 2015 (13:30-17:30), Venue: Nagoya University, Higashiyama Campus

2015.10.28: Event; The 63nd NINJAL Colloquium: "Sentence final particles and modality in Koki dialect of Okinawa island, Ryukyu"
Date: Tuesday, November 24, 2015, Venue: NINJAL
Presenter: KARIMATA Shigehisa (University of the Ryukyus)

2015.10.23: Event; The NINJAL International Symposium "Studies in Japanese Language Teaching in Support of Teaching Practices -Learning, Teaching and Evaluation-"
Date: January 23, 2016, Venue: NINJLAL

2015.10.22: News; NINJAL PR Movie with English subtitles is released.

2015.10.20: Publication; "NINJAL Project Review" Vol. 6 No. 2 was issued.

2015.10.14: News; The electrical inspection will be statutorily conducted. During this period, some our contents and services will be unavailable. We apologize for any inconvenience.
Inspection Period: October 23, 2015 (Fri) 18:00 - October 26, 2015 (Mon) 9:00 (JST)

2015.09.30: Event; The 62nd NINJAL Colloquium: "Elucidation of brain function associated with audition, speech perception and verbal cognition using non-invasive measurements"
Date: Tuesday, October 13, 2015, Venue: NINJAL
Presenter: NAKAGAWA Seiji (National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology)

2015.09.17: Project Meeting; Phonological Characteristics of the Japanese Lexicon (Project Leader: KUBOZONO Haruo)
Date: October 4, 2015 (10:00-16:30), Venue: Kobe University, Rokkodai Area (Tsurukabuto 1 Campus)

2015.09.10: Event; International Conference on Phonetics and Phonology (ICPP 2015)
Date: September 25-27, 2015, Venue: Keio University, Mita Campus

2015.09.03: Event; Japanese Language Variation and Change conference 2016 (JLVC2016)
Date: February 13-14, 2016, Venue: NINJAL

2015.09.03: Event; International Symposium on the Japanese Diachronic Corpora
Date: October 4, 2015 (10:00-17:00), Venue: NINJAL

2015.08.28: Event; The 61st NINJAL Colloquium: "On the velar nasal and prenasalized consonants in Japanese" Date: Tuesday, September 15, 2015 Presenter: UWANO Zendo (University of Tokyo)

2015.08.21: Event; Open Meeting: Field Research Project to Analyze the Formation Process of Japanese Dialects "Geolinguistics Forum"
Date: September 27, 2015 (10:30-16:30) Venue: NINJAL

2015.08.20: Publication; "Handbook of Japanese Psycholinguistics" (Handbooks of Japanese Language and Linguistics 9) has just been published.

2015.08.04: News; Professor Timothy J. Vance received the 7th JCHAT Best Paper Award.

2015.07.28: Event; Geminate Consonants across the World 2015
Date: August 12, 2015 (14:15-18:00) Venue: The Scottish Exhibition and Conference Centre (SECC) (UK., Glasgow)

2015.07.23: News; Our office will be closed from August 13 to 14 for summer vacation.

2015.07.23: Jobs; Academic Employment Opportunities at a public relations office. Open until August 31, 2015.

2015.07.15: Publication; "NINJAL Research Papers" No. 9 was issued.

2015.07.15: Event; Global environmental studies from "Dialects and traditional lifestyles"
Date: July 30, 2015 (13:00-17:00) Venue: NINJAL

2015.07.14: Database; A link to "A Topical Dictionary of Conversational Ainu" was posted on Databases page.

2015.07.09: Event; "Aspect, voice and case in Japanese and Ryukyuan dialects"
Date: August 21-23, 2015 Venue: NINJAL

2015.07.07: Event; What is 'Correct Japanese'? —Language variations in Japanese corpora—
Date: September 3, 2015 (10:00-17:00) Venue: NINJAL

2015.06.24: Event; International Conference "Northeast Asia and the North Pacific as a Linguistic Area"
Date: August 20-21, 2015

2015.06.23: News; "NINJAL Survey and Guide 2015-2016" was issued.

2015.06.11: Event; International Workshop "Kakarimusubi from a Comparative Perspective"
Date: September 5-6, 2015

2015.06.03: Event; The 60th NINJAL Colloquium: "Discourse Grammar: Some Linguistic and Neurological Observations"
Date: Thursday, July 2, 2015 Presenter: Bernd HEINE (University of Cologne)

2015.06.02: News; We are currently performing an urgent maintenance on our server. During the maintenance, some services are unavailable.
We apologize for the uncertain time of recovery.

2015.06.02: Publication; "NINJAL Project Review" Vol. 6 No. 1 was issued.

2015.05.27: Project Meeting; Typological and Historical/Comparative Research on the Languages of the Japanese Archipelago and their Environs (Project Leader: John WHITMAN)
Date: June 13, 2015 (13:30-18:50), June 14, 2015 (10:00-15:00) Venue: NINJAL

2015.05.21: Project Meeting; A Diachronic Contrastive Study of Japanese Interrogatives (Project Leader: KINSUI Satoshi)
Date: June 6, 2015 (14:10-17:40), June 7, 2015 (9:30-12:50) Venue: Osaka University Toyonaka Campus

2015.05.14: Jobs; Academic Employment Opportunities at Center for Corpus Development. Open until June 3, 2015.

2015.05.13: Event; Geolinguistics Forum
Date: June 7, 2015 (10:00-17:00) Venue: NINJAL

2015.04.24: Event; The 59th NINJAL Colloquium："Development of HASHIMOTO Shinkichi's Japanese grammar in the early Showa period: Comparison of his lecture notes in 1929 and 1932"
Date: June 16, 2015 (15:30-17:30) Presenter: SUZUKI Tai (Senshu University)

2015.04.24: Event; The 58th NINJAL Colloquium："Center of attention and topic forms in Japanese written narratives: a comparison of L1 Japanese and L1 English speakers"
Date: June 2, 2015 (15:30-17:30) Presenter: SHIMOJO Mitsuaki (University at Buffalo, The State University of New York)

2015.04.07: Event; The 57th NINJAL Colloquium: "Digital museum with a large scale online media database as a tool for the documentation and preservation of endangered languages and cultures"
Presenter: TAKUBO Yukinori (Kyoto University)

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