National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics

2017

2018.03.28: Database; The Book Data catalogued in the “Japanese Language Studies Annual Survey and Bibliography” in issues from 1954 to 1960 (1,683 items) added.
Data (609 items) added.

2018.03.22: Event; The second Symposium on Conversation and Discourse Studies: New Perspectives in Japanese Language Education Ⅱ: Possibilities of Communication teaching materials based on natural conversation videos
Date: March 29, 2018, Venue: NINJAL

2018.03.20: Event; The 28th NINJAL Tutorials "Japanese Speech and Grammar"
Date: June 30-July 1, 2018, Venue: Chung-Ang University

2018.03.08: Event; The 92nd NINJAL Colloquium "On "Topic""
Date: Tuesday, May 22, 2018, Venue: NINJAL
Speaker: KINSUI Satoshi (Osaka University)

2018.03.08: Event; The 91st NINJAL Colloquium "Logics and Pragmatics of Cumulative Quantification"
Date: Tuesday, April 3, 2018, Venue: NINJAL
Speaker: SHIMADA Junri (Meiji Gakuin University)

2018.03.07: Database; "Linguistic Atlas of Japan (PDF)" has moved to http://mmsrv.ninjal.ac.jp/laj_map/. Please update your links/bookmarks.

2018.03.07: Database; "Grammar Atlas of Japanese Dialects (PDF)" has moved to http://www2.ninjal.ac.jp/hogen/dp/gaj-pdf/gaj-pdf_index.html. Please update your links/bookmarks.

2018.03.01: Event; Symposium "Creating an Effective Peer Reading Classroom: Teacher's Preparation, Practice and Feedback in Classroom Management"
Date: June 9, 2018 (13:00-17:00), Venue: NINJAL

2018.02.23: Event; The 90th NINJAL Colloquium "Human Symbiosis Systems: Making Atmosphere with Language and Gesture"
Date: Tuesday, March 27, 2018, Venue: NINJAL
Speaker: KATAGAMI Daisuke (Tokyo Polytechnic University)

2018.02.22: Event; The 2nd Workshop: "Research on Education in Classical Literature Using the Corpus of Historical Japanese"
Date: March 15, 2018 (13:00-15:00), Venue: Gunma University

2018.02.21: Project Meeting; "Multiple Approaches to Analyzing the Communication of Japanese Language Learners" (Project Leader: ISHIGURO Kei)
"Japanese Basic Verbs Handbook" (Prashant PARDESHI)
Date: March 4, 2018 (10:00-17:00), Venue: Hikone Kinro Fukushi Kaikan

2018.02.20: Project Meeting; "Endangered Languages and Dialects in Japan" (Project Leader: KIBE Nobuko)
Date: March 25, 2018 (14:00-16:00), Venue: Hall of Mine Museum (Mukoyama Nikko Community Center)

2018.02.20: Database; "Catalogue of Nikkei Materials in North America" is now available.

2018.02.19: Project Meeting; "Stylistic Variation in Minutes of the Assemblies" (Project Leader: NIKAIDO Hitoshi)
Date: March 9, 2018 (10:00-16:00), Venue: Toyo University

2018.02.15: Project Meeting; "Cross-linguistic Studies of Japanese Prosody and Grammar" (Project Leader: KUBOZONO Haruo)
"Noun Modifying Expressions" (Prashant PARDESHI)
Date: March 17, 2018 (10:30-17:30), Venue: San Francisco State University, USA

2018.02.08: Project Meeting; "Cross-linguistic Studies of Japanese Prosody and Grammar" (Project Leader: KUBOZONO Haruo)
"Word Prosody and Sentence Prosody" (KUBOZONO Haruo)
Date: March 5, 2018 (15:20-18:10), Venue: Waseda University

2018.02.06: Project Meeting; "Development of All-Words WSD Systems and Construction of a Correspondence Table between WLSP (Word List by Semantic Principles) and IJD (Iwanami Japanese Dictionary) by These Systems" (Project Leader: SHINNOU Hiroyuki)
Date: March 25, 2018 (11:00-17:00), Venue: NINJAL

2018.02.02: Project Meeting; "A Survey, Study, and Use of the Japan-related Documents and Artifacts in North America: Socio-historical Approaches to ‘Modern Overseas Material Informatics’" (Project Leader: ASAHI Yoshiyuki)
Date: February 17, 2018 (13:30-17:00), February 18, 2018 (10:00-17:00), Venue: National Museum of Japanese History

2018.01.31: Publication; "NINJAL Research Papers" No. 14 was issued.

2018.01.26: News; Due to maintenance of the electrical facilities, some our contents and databases will be unavailable. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause and appreciate your understanding.
- Maintenance period: from 18:00 on February 9, 2018 until 9:00 on February 13, 2018 (JST)

2018.01.25: Event; The 32nd NIHU Symposium "How Transdisciplinary Research Facilitates Informatics and Humanities Research"
Date: February 26, 2018 (13:30-17:10), Venue: Hitotsubashi Hall, Hitotsubashi University

2018.01.24: Event; Symposium "Conversation Corpus" III
Date: March 19, 2018 (13:00-17:00), Venue: NINJAL

2018.01.23: Event; The 27th NINJAL Tutorial "Corpus-based Study of Spoken Language"
Date: March 8, 2018 (10:00-17:00), Venue: NINJAL

2018.01.18: Project Meeting; "Learning in Context: Developing Situation-Based Writing Materials" (Project Leader: KOBAYASHI Mina)
Date: January 28, 2018 (14:00-17:00), Venue: NINJAL

2018.01.17: Event; Public Meeting "Refining the Corpus of Historical Japanese with Information on Notation and Bibliographical Form"
Date: February 9, 2018 (14:00-16:00), Venue: NINJAL

2018.01.17: Jobs; Academic Employment Opportunities at Center for Research Resources.
Open until February 16, 2018.

2018.01.16: Event; The NINJAL International Symposium "Approaches to Endangered Languages in Japan and Northeast Asia: Description, Documentation and Revitalization"
Date: August 5-8, 2018, Venue: NINJAL

2018.01.15: Project Meeting; "Cross-linguistic Studies of Japanese Prosody and Grammar" (Project Leader: KUBOZONO Haruo)
Grammar Group "Semantic Structure of Verbs" (MATSUMOTO Yo)
Date: February 20, 2018 (13:30-17:00), Venue: Campus Plaza Kyoto

2018.01.12: Event; Prosody and Grammar Festa 2 (Project Leader: KUBOZONO Haruo)
Date: February 17-18, 2018, Venue: NINJAL

2018.01.10: Event; Symposium "L2 Japanese Learners' Understanding of the Relation Between Sentences in Texts: Evidence from L2 Learners' Eye-Movement Patterns"
Date: March 3, 2018 (10:00-15:00), Venue: NINJAL

2017.12.28: Event; Symposium on Japanese Diachronic Corpora 2018
Date: March 10, 2018 (10:00-17:00), Venue: NINJAL

2017.12.25: Jobs; Academic Employment Opportunities at Research Department Language Variation Division.
Open until January 29, 2018.

2017.12.25: Jobs; Academic Employment Opportunities at Research Department Language Change Division.
Open until January 29, 2018.

2017.12.25: Jobs; Academic Employment Opportunities at Research Department JSL Research Division.
Open until January 29, 2018.

2017.12.19: Database; The Bibliographic Database of Japanese Language Research has been updated with 1,150 additional items.

2017.12.14: Event; 2017 National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics Seminar for Teachers of the Japanese Language (Domestic)
"Think Together About the Japanese Language Use and the Language Life of Foreigners Who Settled in the Region of Japan"
Date: January 20, 2018 (13:00-17:30), Venue: NINJAL

2017.12.14: Project Meeting; "Endangered Languages and Dialects in Japan" (Project Leader: KIBE Nobuko)
Date: March 11, 2018 (9:30-16:00), Venue: NINJAL

2017.12.14: Event; The 88th NINJAL Colloquium "Conditionals and Topics: They are Similar but Not Quite the Same"
Date: Tuesday, January 16, 2018, Venue: NINJAL
Speaker: TOMIOKA Satoshi (University of Delaware)

2017.12.13: Jobs; Employment Opportunities at Institutional Research Office.
Open until January 31, 2018.

2017.12.04: Project Meeting; "Stylistic Variation in Minutes of the Assemblies" (Project Leader: NIKAIDO Hitoshi)
Date: December 10, 2017 (10:00-16:00), Venue: NINJAL

2017.12.04: Event; 2017 National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics Seminar for Teachers of the Japanese Language (Overseas)
"L2 Japanese Learner's Comprehension Difficulties and Teaching Methods for Improving Their Listening and Reading Comprehension"
Date: February 25, 2018 (13:30-16:00), Venue: University of Hamburg

2017.12.01: Event; Symposium "JFL/JSL Corpora' Influence on Japanese Language Teaching: Differences Between Cross-sectional and Longitudinal Corpora"
Date: April 30, 2018 (13:00-16:40), Venue: NINJAL

2017.11.24: Database; The Bibliographic Database of Japanese Language Research has been updated with 1,031 additional items.

2017.11.17: Jobs; Academic Employment Opportunities at Center for Research Resources.
Open until December 22, 2017.

2017.11.15: Project Meeting; "Generative Perspectives on the Syntax and Acquisition of Japanese" (Project Leader: MURASUGI Keiko)
Date: December 9-10, 2017 (10:00-18:00), Venue: NINJAL

2017.11.15: Jobs; Academic Employment Opportunities at Research Department Theory & Typology Division.
Open until January 9, 2018.

2017.11.13: Project Meeting; "Development of and Linguistic Research with a Parsed Corpus of Japanese" (Project Leader: Prashant PARDESHI)
Date: December 12, 2017 (14:00-18:00), Venue: Waseda University

2017.11.08: Event; NINJAL Symposium "Noun (Phrase) Related Phenomena in Japanese -Toritate Expressions and Noun-Modifying Expressions"
Date: December 23, 2017 (10:00-17:30), Venue: NINJAL

2017.11.01: Jobs; Employment Opportunities at Center for Corpus Development.
Open until December 15, 2017.

2017.10.26: Event; Symposium "The Past, Present, and Future of Hentaigana"
Date: November 25, 2017 (10:30-18:00), Venue: NINJAL

2017.10.25: Event; Symposium "New Approach to Study on Essay Writing -For Creation of Syllabus of Essay Writing Class That Develops Learners' Ability to Write Clearly-"
Date: January 14, 2018 (13:00-17:00), Venue: NINJAL

2017.10.23: Event; "NINJAL Parsed Corpus of Modern Japanese (NPCMJ) Tutorial"
Date: November 1, 2017 (16:30-18:30), Venue: Ochanomizu University

2017.10.23: Jobs; Academic Employment Opportunities at Research Department Language Change Division.
Open until December 8, 2017.

2017.10.18: Jobs; Academic Employment Opportunities at Research Department JSL Research Division.
Open until November 15, 2017.

2017.10.18: Jobs; Academic Employment Opportunities at Research Department Theory & Typology Division.
Open until November 15, 2017.

2017.10.12: Event; The 26th NINJAL Tutorial "Corpus-based Study of Spoken Language"
Date: November 30, 2017 (10:00-17:30), Venue: Higashi-Hiroshima campus, Hiroshima University

2017.10.12: Event; The 89th NINJAL Colloquium "Development of Linguistic and Psychological Metapresentation"
Date: Tuesday, January 23, 2018, Venue: NINJAL
Speaker: MATSUI Tomoko (Tokyo Gakugei University)

2017.10.12: Event; The 25th NINJAL Tutorial "Linguistics Approaches Towards Japanese Literature and Textbooks"
Date: November 28, 2017 (18:00-20:00), Venue: University of Michigan

2017.10.06: News; Due to legally required maintenance of the electrical facilities, some our contents and databases will be unavailable. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause and appreciate your understanding.
- Maintenance period: from 18:00 on October 27, 2017 until 9:00 on October 30, 2017 (JST)

2017.10.05: Event; The 87th NINJAL Colloquium "Japanese Noun-Modifying Clause Constructions: Rethinking the Theoretical Boundary"
Date: Tuesday, December 12, 2017, Venue: NINJAL
Speaker: MATSUMOTO Yoshiko (Stanford University)

2017.10.02: News; Greetings from the Director-General, Yukinori Takubo.

2017.10.02: Project Meeting; "Cross-linguistic Studies of Japanese Prosody and Grammar" (Project Leader: KUBOZONO Haruo)
Grammar Group "Semantic Structure of Verbs" (MATSUMOTO Yo)
Date: October 14, 2017 (13:30-17:00), Venue: Nagoya University

2017.09.21: Project Meeting; "Cross-linguistic Studies of Japanese Prosody and Grammar" (Project Leader: KUBOZONO Haruo)
Grammar Group "Noun Modifying Expressions" (Prashant PARDESHI)
Date: October 29, 2017 (10:00-17:00), Venue: University of Toyama

2017.09.19: Event; Symposium "Frontiers of Research on Japanese Grammar: Focusing on Discourse Studies, Contrastive Analysis and Language Acquisition Research"
Date: January 27, 2018 (10:00-17:00), Venue: NINJAL

2017.09.15: Event; The 24th NINJAL Tutorial "Japanese Speech and Grammer"
Date: October 28-29, 2017 (9:30-17:15), Venue: Soochow University

2017.09.13: Event; The 3rd Symposium and Workshop of Learner Corpora and L2 Acquisition Studies
Date: December 3, 2017 (10:00-17:00), Venue: NINJAL

2017.09.13: Project Meeting; "Development of and Linguistic Research with a Parsed Corpus of Japanese" (Project Leader: Prashant PARDESHI)
Date: November 4, 2017 (9:30-12:30), Venue: Kobe University

2017.09.12: Event; The 84th NINJAL Colloquium "First Persons in Kabuki Texts -Explaining the Present from the Past"
Date: Tuesday, October 31, 2017, Venue: NINJAL
Speaker: Katsue Akiba REYNOLDS (University of Hawaii)

2017.09.11: Event; "NINJAL Parsed Corpus of Modern Japanese (NPCMJ) Tutorial #2"
Date: November 4, 2017 (14:00-18:00), Venue: Kobe University

2017.09.08: Event; JK 25 Workshop: Prosody and Prosodic Interfaces in Japanese and Korean
Date: October 11, 2017 (10:00-17:20), Venue: University of Hawaii at Manoa

2017.08.31: Event; NINJAL International Symposium "Exploiting Parsed Corpora: Applications in Research, Pedagogy, and Processing"
Date: December 9-10, 2017, Venue: NINJAL

2017.08.25: Project Meeting; "Multiple Approaches to Analyzing the Communication of Japanese Language Learners" (Project Leader: ISHIGURO Kei)
"Investigating the Way Japanese Learners Process the Language in Reading and Listening" (NODA Hisashi)
Date: September 23, 2017 (13:00-17:00), Venue: NINJAL

2017.08.24: Event; "The 2nd Symposium on How to Utilize the "BTSJ Japanese Conversation Corpus""
Date: September 9, 2017, Venue: NINJAL

2017.08.24: Event; Workshop "Methodology for prosodic research: Corpus, physiology, and sentence type"
Date: October 1, 2017 (10:00-12:00), Venue: The University of Tokyo

2017.08.24: Database; The Bibliographic Database of Japanese Language Research has been updated with 1,125 additional items.

2017.08.09: Event; "The 7th Workshop for Utilizing Japanese Natural Conversation Corpus Transcribed by BTSJ (Basic Transcription System for Japanese)"
Date: September 9, 2017, Venue: NINJAL

2017.08.09: Event; The 86th NINJAL Colloquium "Constructing a Syntactically Annotated Corpus for Grammatical Research"
Date: Friday, December 8, 2017, Venue: NINJAL
Speaker: Anthony KROCH (University of Pennsylvania), Beatrice SANTORINI (University of Pennsylvania)

2017.08.09: Event; The 83rd NINJAL Colloquium "A Re-examination of Demonstratives in Ancient Japanese"
Date: Tuesday, September 19, 2017, Venue: NINJAL
Speaker: OKAZAKI Tomoko (Toyo University)

2017.08.03: Database; New web site of UniDic for morphological analyzer opened.

2017.08.01: News; We will be performing maintenance to our network equipment in the following period. During this period, some of the services/contents will not be available.
- Maintenance period: August 12, 2017

2017.07.31: Project Meeting; "Development of All-Words WSD Systems and Construction of a Correspondence Table between WLSP (Word List by Semantic Principles) and IJD (Iwanami Japanese Dictionary) by These Systems" (Project Leader: SHINNOU Hiroyuki)
Date: September 15, 2017 (12:40-17:15), Venue: Ibaraki University

2017.07.31: Event; Joint Research Project Meeting of the Diachronic Corpora Application Unit
Date: August 19, 2017 (10:30-17:30), Venue: NINJAL

2017.07.27: News; Our office will be closed from August 11 to 16 for summer vacation.

2017.07.21: Jobs; Academic Employment Opportunities at Library Administration Group.
Open until August 4, 2017.

2017.07.20: Event; NINJAL Collaborative Research Project Symposium "Japanese Variation in Corpora: Focusing on Attributes of Speakers"
Date: September 8, 2017 (10:00-16:30), Venue: NINJAL

2017.07.18: Event; The 85th NINJAL Colloquium "Annotation in NPCMJ, a Corpus with Syntactic and Semantic Information"
Date: Tuesday, November 14, 2017, Venue: NINJAL
Speaker: YOSHIMOTO Kei (Tohoku University)

2017.07.13: Event; The International Symposium "International Symposium on Diachronic Speech Corpora"
Date: September 4, 2017, Venue: NINJAL

2017.07.12: Publication; "NINJAL Research Papers" No. 13 was issued.

2017.07.12: Jobs; Academic Employment Opportunities at Research Department Language Variation Division.
Open until August 21, 2017.

2017.07.04: Database; "Hideo Teramura: Collected Papers on Adnominal Modification" is now available.

2017.06.23: Event; "Mental Architecture for Processing and Learning of Language and Tokyo Conference of Psycholinguistics 2017" (Project Leader: SAKAI Hiromu, KOIZUMI Masatoshi)
Date: July 21, 2017 (13:00-17:15), VENUE: Waseda University
Date: July 22, 2017 (10:00-17:40), July 23, 2017 (9:00-16:30), VENUE: NINJAL

2017.06.20: Database; The Bibliographic Database of Japanese Language Research has been updated with 1,376 additional items.

2017.06.16: Event; The first Symposium on Conversation and Discourse Studies: New Perspectives in Japanese Language Education I: Possibilities of Discourse Studies
Date: July 10, 2017, Venue: NINJAL

2017.06.12: Project Meeting; "Research on Education in Classical Literature Using the Corpus of Historical Japanese" (Project Leader: KAWAUCHI Akihiro)
Date: July 30, 2017 (13:00-17:30), Venue: NINJAL

2017.06.08: Event; Joint Symposium of the Graduate School of Literature at Seijo University and NINJAL Collaborative Research Project "Split Intransitivity in Japanese and Ryukyuan Languages: Focusing on Case Marking"
Date: July 2, 2017 (13:00-17:00), Venue: Seijo University

2017.06.06: Project Meeting; "Development of and Linguistic Research with a Parsed Corpus of Japanese" (Project Leader: Prashant PARDESHI)
"Japanese, English and Polish and the Typology of Tense"
Speaker: OGIHARA Toshiyuki (Associate Professor, University of Washington)
Date: June 9, 2017 (14:00-15:00), Venue: NINJAL

2017.06.01: Project Meeting; "Cross-linguistic Studies of Japanese Prosody and Grammar" (Project Leader: KUBOZONO Haruo)
Grammar Group "Noun Modifying Expressions" (Prashant PARDESHI)
Date: July 29, 2017 (10:00-18:00), Venue: Osaka University

2017.06.01: News; "NINJAL Survey and Guide 2017/2018" was issued.

2017.05.18: Project Meeting; "Cross-linguistic Studies of Japanese Prosody and Grammar" (Project Leader: KUBOZONO Haruo)
"Word prosody and sentence prosody" (KUBOZONO Haruo)
Date: June 18, 2017 (13:00-17:30), Venue: NINJAL

2017.05.12: Database; English page on "Bibliographic Database of Japanese Language Research" is now available.

2017.05.09: Event; The 30th NIHU Symposium "Rediscovering the Use and Value of Japan-Related Resources Recovered in the West"
Date: June 3, 2017 (13:30-16:30), Venue: Nishijin Plaza, Kyushu University

2017.05.08: Project Meeting; "Endangered Languages and Dialects in Japan" (Project Leader: KIBE Nobuko)
Date: June 11, 2017 (10:00-15:00), Venue: NINJAL

2017.05.02: Event; The International Symposium "NINJAL-NMJH-UHM Workshop"
Date: May 16-18, 2017, Venue: University of Hawaii at Manoa

2017.04.17: Project Meeting; "Generative Perspectives on the Syntax and Acquisition of Japanese" (Project Leader: MURASUGI Keiko)
Date: May 13, 2017 (10:30-17:00), May 14, 2017 (10:30-17:00), Venue: Keio University

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