National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics

2021.03.29

Database

The Bibliographic Database of Japanese Language Research has been updated with 547 additional items.

2021.03.25

Database

"Text Data of Goi kenkyu bunken gobetsu mokuroku" has been moved. Please change your bookmarks.

2021.03.25

Database

"Text Data Sets for Research on the History of Japanese" has been moved. Please change your bookmarks.

2021.03.19

Event

Classification and symbols for a geolinguistic study of grammatical relations
Date: March 28, 2021 (13:00-18:00), March 29, 2021 (9:00-17:45), Venue: Online

2021.03.12

Event

Online Symposium "Lowering Linguistic Barriers in Japanese to Achieve a Sustainable Multicultural Society in Japan"
Date: March 24, 2021 (13:00-15:00), Venue: Online

2021.03.11

Event

Kick off international symposium on the interdisciplinary research on development of literacy survey in Japan (with online)
Date: March 27, 2021 (13:00-18:00), Venue: Online

2021.03.09

Database

Three newly translated papers have been added on the “Pioneering Linguistic Works in Japan” Series Site.
- HATTORI Shiro "On the Accent of Japanese from the Phonological Point of View" (1954)
- WATANABE Minoru "The “Self” Versus “Other” Perspective and Grammatical Theory" (1991)
- UWANO Zendo "What is an N-pattern Accent System?" (2012)

2021.03.01

Jobs

Academic Employment Opportunities at Research Department.
Open until May 6, 2021.

2021.02.26

Event

The 4th Symposium on Conversation and Discourse Studies: Development of "BTSJ Japanese Natural Conversation Corpus (BTSJ-Corpus)" and "Collaborative building type-WEB Teaching Materials based on Natural Conversation Data on the NCRB Platform (NCRB)": Possibilities of Utilizing for Japanese Language Education
Date: March 27, 2021 (10:00-17:00), Venue: Online

2021.02.19

Event

Glyph Data Sharing for Hanzi Character Studies
Date: March 20, 2021 (13:00-18:10), Venue: Online

2021.02.15

Event

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’"
Date: March 10, 2021 (14:00-15:00), Venue: Online

2021.02.15

Event

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’"
Date: March 3, 2021 (14:00-15:00), Venue: Online

2021.02.15

Event

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’"
Date: February 24, 2021 (14:00-15:00), Venue: Online

2021.02.12

Event

Online Symposium "Language, Cognition, and Interaction 9"
Date: March 6, 2021 (13:00-18:00), Venue: Online

2021.02.09

Event

The 115th NINJAL Colloquium
Date: Tuesday, March 23, 2021, Venue: Online
Speaker: Ian WILSON (The University of AIZU)

2021.02.09

Jobs

Academic Employment Opportunities at Research Department Spoken Language Division.
Open until March 1, 2021.

2021.02.09

Jobs

Academic Employment Opportunities at Center for Research Resources.
Open until March 1, 2021.

2021.02.04

Event

Symposium on the Japanese Diachronic Corpora 2021
Date: March 13, 2021 (13:00-), Venue: Online

2021.02.03

News

Due to network maintenance, some our contents and databases will be unavailable. We are very sorry for any inconvenience this may cause, but appreciate your understanding.
- Maintenance period: from 18:00 on February 12, 2021 until 9:00 on February 15, 2021 (JST)

2021.02.03

Event

The 38th NINJAL Tutorial "Introduction to utilization of the Corpus of Historical Japanese: How to use “Chunagon”"
Date: March 1, 2021 (13:00-17:00), Venue: Online

2021.02.01

Database

The Bibliographic Database of Japanese Language Research has been updated with 910 additional items.

2021.01.26

Event

The 114th NINJAL Colloquium "Integrating Corpus Approaches with the CEFR for Developing Linguistic Resources for Foreign Language Teaching"
Date: Tuesday, March 2, 2021, Venue: Online
Speaker: TONO Yukio (Tokyo University of Foreign Studies)

2021.01.21

Publication

"NINJAL Research Papers" No. 20 was issued.

2021.01.19

Event

Online tutorial of the NINJAL Parsed Corpus of Modern Japanese (NPCMJ)
Date: March 13, 2021 (10:00-17:00), Venue: Online

2021.01.18

Event

The 5th Workshop: "Corpus of Historical Japanese" Tutorial for Teaching Japanese Classical Literature
Date: February 23, 2021 (13:00-15:00), Venue: Online

2021.01.15

Event

Online Project Meeting "Endangered Languages and Dialects in Japan"
Date: March 14, 2021 (10:30-16:00), Venue: Online

2021.01.12

News

The Center for Research Resources adopted the basic policy in order to promote the utilization of the Center’s databases.

2021.01.07

Event

The 15th NINJAL Forum "Endangered Languages in Japan and Asia: What can we do for the revitalization of endangered languages"
Date: February 27, 2021 (13:00-17:00), Venue: Online

2021.01.06

Event

2020 National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics Seminar for Teachers of the Japanese Language (Domestic)
"Dialogue system research and Japanese language education"
Date: February 27, 2021 (13:00-17:20), Venue: Online

2020.12.23

Event

Frontiers of Research on Japanese Grammar: Focusing on comparative studies on Japanese and its dialects
Dates: March 6, 2021 (10:00-16:55), March 21, 2021 (10:00-17:30), Venue: Online

2020.12.23

Event

The 40th NINJAL Tutorial "Corpus-based study of Japanese dialects"
Dates: March 7, 2021 (9:30-16:40), Venue: Online

2020.12.23

Event

The 39th NINJAL Tutorial "Spontaneous conversation in Japanese and Discourse Politeness Theory"
Dates: February 20, 2021 (10:00-16:00), Venue: Online

2020.12.23

Jobs

Academic Employment Opportunities at Research Department Language Change Division.
Open until January 26, 2021.

2020.12.23

Jobs

Academic Employment Opportunities at Research Department Spoken Language Division.
Open until January 26, 2021.

2020.12.23

Jobs

Academic Employment Opportunities at Center for Corpus Development.
Open until January 26, 2021.

2020.12.23

Jobs

Academic Employment Opportunities at Center for Research Resources.
Open until January 26, 2021.

2020.12.22

Event

Project Meeting "Investigation of Listening Comprehension Difficulties in Children with Developmental Disorders"
Date: January 23, 2021 (13:00-16:00), Venue: Online

2020.12.11

Event

Research Project Meeting of the Diachronic Corpora Application Unit
Date: December 27, 2020 (14:00-17:00), Venue: Online

2020.12.10

Event

The 15th and 16th Workshop for Utilizing Japanese Natural Conversation Corpus Transcribed by BTSJ (Basic Transcription System for Japanese)
Date: February 6, 2021 (12:30-16:40), Venue: Online

2020.11.27

Event

Phonology Festa 16 (2021)
Date: March 8, 2021 (13:00-17:40), March 9, 2021 (13:00-16:55), Venue: Online

2020.11.26

Event

Symposium "Phylogenetics of the Japonic dialects: Current issues and prospects"
Date: December 19, 2020 (12:00-18:00), December 20, 2020 (12:00-16:00), Venue: Online

2020.11.17

Event

Prosody & Grammar Festa 5
Date: February 20, 2021 (13:25-17:45), February 21, 2021 (10:00-17:05), Venue: Online

2020.11.13

Event

NINJAL Lectures on Japanese Linguistics
Date: November 28-29, 2020 (10:30-12:00) (India) [Tokyo 14:00-15:30], Venue: Online

2020.11.11

Database

"The Databese of the Okazaki Survey of Honorifics" has been moved. Please change your bookmarks.

2020.11.09

Event

Online Project Meeting of the "Development of and Linguistic Research with a Parsed Corpus of Japanese" Project
Date: November 27, 2020 (13:30-15:30), Venue: Online

2020.10.30

Event

2020 National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics Seminar for Teachers of the Japanese Language (Overseas)
"Difficulties in learning Japanese as a second language"
Date: November 15, 2020 (9:00-12:00) (Eastern Brazil) [Tokyo 21:00-0:00], Venue: Online

2020.10.30

Jobs

Academic Employment Opportunities at Research Department Language Variation Division.
Open until November 19, 2020.

2020.10.27

Event

The 12th Online Project Meeting "Cross-linguistic Studies of Japanese Prosody and Grammar" (late 2020-2021)
Prosody Group "Word Prosody and Sentence Prosody"
Date: January 15, 2021 (15:00-16:00), Venue: Online

2020.10.27

Event

The 11th Online Project Meeting "Cross-linguistic Studies of Japanese Prosody and Grammar" (late 2020-2021)
Prosody Group "Word Prosody and Sentence Prosody"
Date: January 8, 2021 (15:00-16:00), Venue: Online

2020.10.27

Event

The 10th Online Project Meeting "Cross-linguistic Studies of Japanese Prosody and Grammar" (late 2020-2021)
Prosody Group "Word Prosody and Sentence Prosody"
Date: December 17, 2020 (10:30-11:30), Venue: Online

2020.10.27

Event

The 9th Online Project Meeting "Cross-linguistic Studies of Japanese Prosody and Grammar" (late 2020-2021)
Prosody Group "Word Prosody and Sentence Prosody"
Date: December 11, 2020 (15:00-16:00), Venue: Online

2020.10.27

Event

The 8th Online Project Meeting "Cross-linguistic Studies of Japanese Prosody and Grammar" (late 2020-2021)
Prosody Group "Word Prosody and Sentence Prosody"
Date: December 4, 2020 (15:00-16:00), Venue: Online

2020.10.27

Event

Online Workshop: "Corpus of Historical Japanese" and its concordancer Chunagon
Date: November 14, 2020 (13:00-17:00), Venue: Online

2020.10.21

Jobs

Academic Employment Opportunities at Research Department.
Open until December 7, 2020.

2020.10.21

Event

Frame semantics project meeting
Date: November 15, 2020 (14:00-17:15), Venue: Online

2020.10.20

Event

A mini international workshop on the grammaticalization of motion verbs in Japanese
Date: October 30, 2020 (20:00-22:00), Venue: Online

2020.10.09

Event

Field linguistics webinar
Date: December 5, 2020 (13:00-16:00), December 6, 2020 (10:00-13:00), Venue: Online

2020.10.07

Database

"NPCMJ Child Language Development Timeline" has been released.

2020.10.07

Database

"Japanese Word History and Frequency" has been released.

2020.10.02

Event

(Online) Symposium "Natural Conversation Corpus" can change the Japanese Language Education-Introduction of the "BTSJ Japanese Natural Conversation Corpus", and its application to the teaching of Japanese-
Date: November 21, 2020 (10:00-17:00), Venue: Online

2020.09.30

Event

The 37th NINJAL Tutorial "Research methods in JFL/JSL learners' writing/Corpus-based research on everyday conversation"
Dates: October 10 (10:30-17:50), 11 (10:30-17:50), 2020
Venue: Online

2020.09.30

Database

The Bibliographic Database of Japanese Language Research has been updated with 1,310 additional items.

2020.09.29

Event

Online Project Meeting "Cross-linguistic Studies of Japanese Prosody and Grammar"
Prosody Group "Word Prosody and Sentence Prosody"
Date: November 22, 2020 (14:00-16:00), Venue: Online

2020.09.25

Event

The 7th Online Project Meeting "Cross-linguistic Studies of Japanese Prosody and Grammar" (late 2020-2021)
Prosody Group "Word Prosody and Sentence Prosody"
Date: November 27, 2020 (15:00-16:00), Venue: Online

2020.09.25

Event

The 6th Online Project Meeting "Cross-linguistic Studies of Japanese Prosody and Grammar" (late 2020-2021)
Prosody Group "Word Prosody and Sentence Prosody"
Date: November 13, 2020 (15:00-16:00), Venue: Online

2020.09.25

Event

The 5th Online Project Meeting "Cross-linguistic Studies of Japanese Prosody and Grammar" (late 2020-2021)
Prosody Group "Word Prosody and Sentence Prosody"
Date: November 6, 2020 (15:00-16:00), Venue: Online

2020.09.25

Event

The 4th Online Project Meeting "Cross-linguistic Studies of Japanese Prosody and Grammar" (late 2020-2021)
Prosody Group "Word Prosody and Sentence Prosody"
Date: October 30, 2020 (15:00-16:00), Venue: Online

2020.09.25

Event

The 3rd Online Project Meeting "Cross-linguistic Studies of Japanese Prosody and Grammar" (late 2020-2021)
Prosody Group "Word Prosody and Sentence Prosody"
Date: October 23, 2020 (15:00-16:00), Venue: Online

2020.09.25

Event

The 2nd Online Project Meeting "Cross-linguistic Studies of Japanese Prosody and Grammar" (late 2020-2021)
Prosody Group "Word Prosody and Sentence Prosody"
Date: October 16, 2020 (15:00-16:00), Venue: Online

2020.09.25

Event

The 1st Online Project Meeting "Cross-linguistic Studies of Japanese Prosody and Grammar" (late 2020-2021)
Prosody Group "Word Prosody and Sentence Prosody"
Date: October 9, 2020 (15:00-16:00), Venue: Online

2020.09.25

News

Due to legally required maintenance of the electrical facilities, some our contents and databases will be unavailable. We are very sorry for any inconvenience this may cause, but appreciate your understanding.
- Maintenance period: from 18:00 on October 16, 2020 until 9:00 on October 19, 2020 (JST)

2020.09.25

Jobs

Employment Opportunities at Center for Center for Research Resources.
Open until October 26, 2020.

2020.09.18

Database

MIYATA Koichi “A New View of Accentuation and the Annotation of Accentuation” uploaded to the site "Pioneering Linguistic Works in Japan" additionally.

2020.09.16

Jobs

Academic Employment Opportunities at Research Department Spoken Language Division.
Open until September 29, 2020.

2020.08.27

Event

The 113th NINJAL Colloquium "Toward a Better Understanding of the Extension of Speech Sounds: The Phonological Typology of the Kalahari Basin Area"
Date: Tuesday, October 13, 2020, Venue: Online
Speaker: NAKAGAWA Hirosi (Tokyo University of Foreign Studies)

2020.08.27

Event

Symposium "Towards cross-dialectal and diachronic studies of Kakarimusubi and case across Japonic languages"
Date: September 19, 2020 (10:00-16:00), September 20, 2020 (10:00-16:30), Venue: Online

2020.08.19

Event

Symposium on the Japanese Diachronic Corpora 2020 Online
Date: September 13, 2020 (10:00-), Venue: Online

2020.08.07

Jobs

Academic Employment Opportunities at Research Department Theory & Typology Division.
Open until September 1, 2020.

2020.08.05

Event

Empirical Study of Modern Japanese Using the Showa-Heisei Corpus of Written Japanese
Date: August 8, 2020 (13:30-17:00), Venue: Online

2020.08.03

News

Our office will be closed from August 12 to 14 for summer vacation.

2020.07.21

Jobs

Academic Employment Opportunities at Center for Corpus Development.
Open until August 18, 2020.

2020.07.21

Jobs

Academic Employment Opportunities at Research Department JSL Research Division.
Open until August 18, 2020.

2020.07.16

Publication

"NINJAL Research Papers" No. 19 was issued.

2020.07.08

Event

The 36th NINJAL Tutorial "Introduction to Categorial Grammar"
Dates: September 5 (13:30-15:00), 12 (13:30-15:00), 19 (13:30-15:00), 26 (13:30-15:00), 2020
Venue: Online

2020.07.06

Event

NINJAL Open House 2020
Date: September 10, 2020, Venue: Web release

2020.07.06

Event

NIHONGO TANKEN 2020
Date: August 19-21, 2020, Venue: Web release

2020.07.01

Database

"NINJAL Hentaigana Database" has been released.

2020.06.30

News

"NINJAL Yearbook 2018" was issued.

2020.06.22

Event

Online Project Meeting of the "Development of and Linguistic Research with a Parsed Corpus of Japanese" Project
Date: July 7, 2020 (17:00-18:00), Venue: Online

2020.06.11

News

"NINJAL Survey and Guide 2020/2021" was issued.

2020.06.05

Event

Online Symposium "Language, Cognition, and Interaction 8"
Date: June 27, 2020 (10:00-15:00), Venue: Online

2020.06.03

Event

The 8th Online Project Meeting "Cross-linguistic Studies of Japanese Prosody and Grammar"
Prosody Group "Word Prosody and Sentence Prosody"
Date: July 17, 2020 (15:00-16:00), Venue: Online

2020.06.03

Event

The 7th Online Project Meeting "Cross-linguistic Studies of Japanese Prosody and Grammar"
Prosody Group "Word Prosody and Sentence Prosody"
Date: July 10, 2020 (15:00-16:00), Venue: Online

2020.06.03

Event

The 6th Online Project Meeting "Cross-linguistic Studies of Japanese Prosody and Grammar"
Prosody Group "Word Prosody and Sentence Prosody"
Date: July 3, 2020 (15:00-16:00), Venue: Online

2020.06.03

Event

The 5th Online Project Meeting "Cross-linguistic Studies of Japanese Prosody and Grammar"
Prosody Group "Word Prosody and Sentence Prosody"
Date: June 29, 2020 (14:00-15:00), Venue: Online

2020.06.02

Event

"I-JAS" Completion Symposium/The 5th Learner Corpus Workshop
Date: June 20, 2020 (10:00-16:00), June 21, 2020 (9:30-15:30), Venue: Online

2020.06.01

News

In view of the current coronavirus (COVID-19) situation, we are working from home in principle. We apologize for the inconvenience and appreciate your understanding.

2020.05.15

Event

Online Project Meeting "Endangered Languages and Dialects in Japan"
Date: June 14, 2020 (10:30-15:00), Venue: Online

2020.05.13

Event

The 4th Online Project Meeting "Cross-linguistic Studies of Japanese Prosody and Grammar"
Prosody Group "Word Prosody and Sentence Prosody"
Date: June 12, 2020 (15:00-16:00), Venue: Online

2020.05.13

Event

The 3rd Online Project Meeting "Cross-linguistic Studies of Japanese Prosody and Grammar"
Prosody Group "Word Prosody and Sentence Prosody"
Date: June 5, 2020 (15:00-16:00), Venue: Online

2020.05.13

Event

The 2nd Online Project Meeting "Cross-linguistic Studies of Japanese Prosody and Grammar"
Prosody Group "Word Prosody and Sentence Prosody"
Date: May 29, 2020 (15:00-16:00), Venue: Online

2020.05.13

Event

The 1st Online Project Meeting "Cross-linguistic Studies of Japanese Prosody and Grammar"
Prosody Group "Word Prosody and Sentence Prosody"
Date: May 25, 2020 (14:00-15:00), Venue: Online

2020.05.07

News

In view of the current coronavirus (COVID-19) situation, we continue to work from home. The NINJAL office is closed, and we cannot receive telephones, FAX or letters. We do not respond to queries on our website except for emergent matters. We apologize for the inconvenience and appreciate your understanding.

2020.04.08

News

In accordance with the declaration of a state of emergency by the Japanese government, NINJAL is temporarily closed from April 8 to May 6, 2020. We cannot receive telephone calls, FAX or letters. We do not respond to queries on our website except for emergent matters. We apologize for the inconvenience and appreciate your understanding.

2020.04.08

Jobs

Employment Opportunities at Center for Corpus Development.
Open until May 13, 2020.

2020.04.07

Jobs

Academic Employment Opportunities at Research Department JSL Research Division.
Open until April 22, 2020.

2020.04.07

Jobs

Academic Employment Opportunities at Research Department JSL Research Division.
Open until April 22, 2020.

2020.04.01

Event

The NINJAL International Symposium "The 11th International Conference on Practical Linguistics of Japanese [ICPLJ11]"
Dates: December 19 (Saturday)–20 (Sunday), 2020, Venue: Online