National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics

2022.03.22

Database

"Dataset of Educational Video Material Series for Teaching Japanese as a Foreign Language" has been released.

2022.03.17

Jobs

Academic Employment Opportunities at Research Development.
Open until March 30, 2022.

2022.03.17

Jobs

Academic Employment Opportunities at Center for Corpus Development.
Open until March 30, 2022.

2022.03.16

Database

"Database of Tsuruoka Survey" has been moved. Please change your bookmarks.

2022.03.16

Database

"Database of Hokkaido Survey" has been released.

2022.03.14

Database

The Bibliographic Database of Japanese Language Research has been updated with 1,167 additional items.

2022.03.09

Event

2021 National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics Seminar for Teachers of the Japanese Language (Domestic)
"Development and progress of the Japanese education in the Japanese community and multicultural society: while being based on the result of a longitudinal study of spoken Japanese by language learners who settled down in Japan"
Date: March 27, 2022 (13:00-17:15), Venue: Online

2022.03.07

Database

"Catalogue of NINJAL Research Materials Room Collection" has been released.

2022.03.01

Event

2021 National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics Seminar for Teachers of the Japanese Language (Overseas)
"New Japanese Language Education for Social Change: Japanese Language Learners as Members of Society and the Practice of “Case Materials”"
Date: March 12, 2022 (10:00-13:00) (Bangladesh) [Tokyo 13:00-16:00], Venue: Online

2022.03.01

Event

Symposium "Statistic and Statistical Mechanics Approach to Semantic Drift of Words in Modern and Contemporary Languages"
Date: March 9, 2022 (13:00-17:00), Venue: Online, TKP Tokyo Station Central Conference Center

2022.02.28

Event

The 5th Symposium on Conversation and Discourse Studies: Development of the Collaboration of BTSJ Natural Conversation Corpus and the Natural Conversation Resource Bank (NCRB) (-Various ways of utilizing the corpus and the NCRB platform-)
Date: March 26, 2022 (13:00-18:00), Venue: Online

2022.02.22

Event

Training Session for Chunagon on the Corpus of Historical Japanese
Date: March 22, 2022 (13:00-17:30), Venue: Online

2022.02.16

Event

The 43rd NINJAL Tutorial "Raising Citizen Scientists for the Conservation Study of Endangered Languages"
Date: March 26, 2022 (10:00-16:00), Venue: Online

2022.02.14

Event

Kobe-NINJAL Linguistic Colloquium "Frontiers of Japanese Linguistic Research 2"
Date: March 10, 2022 (13:00-18:00), Venue: Kobe University

2022.02.10

Event

Online tutorial of the NINJAL Parsed Corpus of Modern Japanese (NPCMJ)
Date: March 4, 2022 (10:00-17:00), Venue: Online

2022.02.09

Event

Online Symposium "Language, Cognition, and Interaction 10"
Date: March 10, 2022 (13:00-18:10), Venue: Online

2022.02.08

Jobs

Employment Opportunities at Center for Research Resources.
Open until March 3, 2022.

2022.02.07

Event

Symposium "Conversation Corpus" VII
Date: March 7, 2022 (10:00-17:30), Venue: Online

2022.02.04

Event

The 17th Workshop for Utilizing Japanese Natural Conversation Corpus Transcribed by BTSJ (Basic Transcription System for Japanese)
Date: February 26, 2022 (13:00-16:30), Venue: Online

2022.02.02

Event

The 14th Training Session on Using Corpora
Date: March 1, 2022 (13:00-15:30), Venue: Online

2022.01.31

Jobs

Academic Employment Opportunities at Research Department Theory & Typology Division.
Open until February 7, 2022.

2022.01.27

Jobs

Academic Employment Opportunities at Research Department.
Open until February 9, 2022.

2022.01.27

Jobs

Employment Opportunities at Center for Corpus Development.
Open until February 9, 2022.

2022.01.26

Event

Phonology Festa 17 (2022)
Dates: March 7, 2022 (13:30-17:25), March 8, 2022 (10:00-16:10), Venue: Online

2022.01.25

Publication

"NINJAL Research Papers" No. 22 was issued.

2022.01.21

Event

Online Symposium "Immigration Policies in the Post-/With-Corona Era and Yasashii Nihongo"
Date: February 12, 2022 (12:30-17:30), Venue: Online

2022.01.17

Event

Symposium on the Japanese Diachronic Corpora 2022 (Online)
Date: March 13, 2022 (13:00-17:40), Venue: Online

2022.01.05

Event

Symposium "MATSUNOKI: The Tsugaru dialect treebank"
Date: January 17, 2022 (11:00-13:30), Venue: Hirosaki University

2021.12.27

Event

The 16th NINJAL Forum "Research on Japanese Based on Diverse Language Resources: 'How far we have progressed and how much we have discovered!'"

Date(s): February 19, 2022 (10:00-16:55)
Venue: Online

2021.12.24

Event

Project Meeting "Investigation of Listening Comprehension Difficulties in Children with Developmental Disorders"
Date: January 22, 2022 (14:00-16:30), Venue: Online

2021.12.22

Event

The 42nd NINJAL Tutorial "Corpus-based study on everyday conversation"
Date: February 25, 2022 (9:30-16:30), Venue: Online

2021.12.20

Jobs

Academic Employment Opportunities at Public Relations Office.
Open until February 9, 2022.

2021.12.16

Event

Frontiers of Research on Japanese Grammar: Focusing on Comparative Studies of Native Speakers' Japanese and Learners' Japanese
Date: February 26, 2022 (13:00-18:30), Venue: Online

2021.12.14

Event

Prosody & Grammar Festa 6
Dates: January 29, 2022 (13:30-17:25), January 30, 2022 (10:00-17:00), Venue: Online

2021.12.13

Event

The 121st NINJAL Colloquium "Japanese Ideophones from a Crosslinguistic Perspective"
Date: Tuesday, March 15, 2022, Venue: Online
Speaker: AKITA Kimi (Nagoya University)

2021.12.13

Event

The 120th NINJAL Colloquium "On the Production and Comprehension of Scrambled Sentences in Japanese: A Cognitive Neuroscience Perspective"
Date: Tuesday, February 1, 2022, Venue: Online
Speaker: KOIZUMI Masatoshi (Tohoku University)

2021.12.09

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 December 10, 2021 until 23:00 on December 12, 2021 (JST)

2021.12.08

Event

Online Project Meeting of the "Development of and Linguistic Research with a Parsed Corpus of Japanese" Project
Date: December 22, 2021 (16:00-17:00), Venue: Online

2021.11.15

Event

Online Project Meeting "Cross-linguistic Studies of Japanese Prosody and Grammar" (late 2021)
Prosody Group "Word Prosody and Sentence Prosody"
Date: December 18, 2021 (13:30-17:00), Venue: Online

2021.11.10

Jobs

Academic Employment Opportunities at Center for Corpus Development.
Open until December 24, 2021.

2021.11.09

Event

Online Project Meeting of the "Development of and Linguistic Research with a Parsed Corpus of Japanese" Project
Date: November 19, 2021 (16:00-17:00), Venue: Online

2021.11.02

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 20:00 on November 4, 2021 until 2:00 on November 5, 2021 (JST)

2021.10.27

Jobs

Academic Employment Opportunities at Research Department Language Change Division.
Open until November 25, 2021.

2021.10.25

Event

Project Meeting "Cross-linguistic Studies of Japanese Prosody and Grammar"
Prosody Group "Word Prosody and Sentence Prosody"
Date: November 21, 2021 (9:40-11:40), Venue: Online

2021.10.14

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: November 27, 2021 (10:00-16:30), Venue: Online

2021.10.13

Event

Online Project Meeting "Endangered Languages and Dialects in Japan"
Date: December 12, 2021 (10:30-16:50), Venue: Online

2021.10.13

Jobs

Academic Employment Opportunities at Center for Corpus Development.
Open until November 11, 2021.

2021.10.11

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 17:00 on October 14, 2021 until 23:00 on October 17, 2021 (JST)

2021.10.07

Event

The 41st NINJAL Tutorial "The semantics of Japanese verbs/Corpus-based Historical Study of the Japanese Language"
Dates: October 23, 2021 (9:30-17:15 TST), October 24, 2021 (9:30-17:15 TST), Venue: Online

2021.10.04

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 17:00 on October 8, 2021 until 0:00 on October 11, 2021 (JST)

2021.09.30

Event

The 119th NINJAL Colloquium "Language Change and Society"
Date: Tuesday, January 11, 2022, Venue: Online
Speaker: SHIBUYA Katsumi（Osaka University）

2021.09.13

Event

JK 29 Satellite Meeting: the 3rd NINJAL-SNU Joint Workshop on Japanese and Korean Phonology
Dates: October 8, 2021 (9:30-12:30), Venue: Online

2021.09.13

Event

JK 29 Satellite workshop: Data-oriented approaches to meaning in Korean and Japanese
Dates: October 8, 2021 (10:00-16:10), Venue: Online

2021.09.13

Event

The 29th Japanese/Korean Linguistics Conference
Dates: October 9, 2021 (9:55-17:00), October 10, 2021 (10:00-17:00), October 11, 2021 (10:00-17:05), Venue: Online

2021.09.08

Event

The 118th NINJAL Colloquium "The Distribution and Interpretation of Wh-Phrases without Quantificational Particles"
Date: Tuesday, November 16, 2021, Venue: Online
Speaker: SAITO Mamoru (Nanzan University)

2021.09.03

Event

International Symposium on Issues in Japanese Psycholinguistics from Comparative Perspectives
Dates: September 11-12, 2021, Venue: Online

2021.08.30

Event

The 117th NINJAL Colloquium "Forensic Authorship Analysis: Emulating DNA Analysis"
Date: Tuesday, October 12, 2021, Venue: Online
Speaker: ISHIHARA Shunichi (The Australian National University)

2021.08.25

Event

NINJAL Open House 2021

Date(s): September 10, 2021
Venue: Web release

2021.08.06

Event

Symposium "Research and Education for Business Japanese: Exploring Necessary Components to improve Written Business Japanese"
Date: September 25, 2021 (13:00-16:30), Venue: Online

2021.08.03

Event

NIHONGO TANKEN 2021

Date(s): August 20, 2021
Venue: Web release

2021.07.30

Publication

"NINJAL Research Papers" No. 21 was issued.

2021.07.30

Event

The NINJAL International Symposium "The 11th International Quantitative Linguistics Conference (QUALICO 2021)"
Dates: September 9-11, 2021, Venue: Online

2021.07.29

Event

Field linguistics webinar 2021
Date: August 19, 2021 (10:00-17:05), Venue: Online

2021.07.28

Event

Online Forum on the Interdisciplinary Research on Development of Literacy Survey in Japan
Date: July 31, 2021 (13:30-17:15), Venue: Online

2021.07.13

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: July 19, 2021, 9:00-12:00 (JST)

2021.07.07

News

We will be performing maintenance to our host server in the following period. During this period, this site will not be available. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause you.
- Maintenance period: July 28, 2021, 13:00-17:00 (JST)

2021.06.29

Database

The following newly translated paper has been added to the Pioneering Linguistic Works in Japan website.
- "A Classification of Japanese Verbs (Kokugo Dōshi-no Ichibunrui)" by KINDAICHI Haruhiko (1950)

2021.06.18

Jobs

Academic Employment Opportunities at Research Department JSL Research Division.
Open until July 8, 2021.

2021.06.17

Event

Practical Workshop "SPOT and OT Workplace"
Dates: July 17, 2021 (10:00-12:00), July 18, 2021 (10:00-12:00), Venue: Online

2021.06.10

Database

"Transcription of the Tale of Genji manuscript book at the Library of Congress" has been moved. Please change your bookmarks.

2021.06.02

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: June 26, 2021 (13:00-17:00), Venue: Online

2021.05.31

Database

"Images and Transcription of Isoho monogatari in the British Library collection" has been moved. Please change your bookmarks.

2021.05.31

Database

"Images of The Tale of Genji Manuscript Book at the Library of Congress" has been moved. Please change your bookmarks.

2021.05.27

News

"NINJAL Survey and Guide 2021/2022" was issued.

2021.05.26

Jobs

Academic Employment Opportunities at Research Department JSL Research Division.
Open until June 18, 2021.

2021.05.21

Event

The 116th NINJAL Colloquium "Aeroacoustic Simulation of Fricative Productions"
Date: Tuesday, June 29, 2021, Venue: Online
Speaker: YOSHINAGA Tsukasa (Toyohashi University of Technology)

2021.05.20

Event

Training Session on Using COJADS
Date: August 21, 2021 (9:30-16:00), Venue: Online

2021.05.19

Database

"Language Museum" has been released.

2021.05.10

Event

Language Resources Workshop 2021
Dates: September 13, 2021 (10:00-17:00), September 14, 2021 (9:30-17:00), Venue: Online

2021.05.10

Event

The 3rd Universal Dependencies Meetings
Date: June 22, 2021 (10:00-16:30), Venue: Online

2021.04.30

Event

2021 Spring Workshop for Japanese Teachers in Cologne
Date: June 5, 2021 (10:00-13:00 CEST), Venue: Online

2021.04.28

Event

The 6th Learner Corpus Workshop & Symposium
Date: May 30, 2021 (10:00-16:30), Venue: Online

2021.04.23

Jobs

Academic Employment Opportunities at Research Department Language Variation Division.
Open until May 20, 2021.

2021.04.16

Event

Frame semantics project meeting
Date: April 25, 2021 (14:30-17:10), Venue: Online

2021.04.15

Database

"Language Processing Data Source" has been released.

2021.04.14

News

"NINJAL Yearbook 2019" was issued.

2021.04.14

Event

Online Project Meeting "Endangered Languages and Dialects in Japan"
Date: June 13, 2021 (10:30-16:20), Venue: Online

2021.04.08

Event

Pre-Seminar for Hanoi Seminar 2022
Date: September 19, 2021 (10:00-15:20), Venue: Online

2021.04.02

Event

Online Project Meeting "Cross-linguistic Studies of Japanese Prosody and Grammar" (early 2021)
Prosody Group "Word Prosody and Sentence Prosody"
Dates:
The 1st April 23, 2021, The 2nd April 30, 2021
The 3rd May 7, 2021, The 4th May 14, 2021
The 5th May 21, 2021, The 6th May 28, 2021
The 7th June 4, 2021, The 8th June 11, 2021
The 9th June 18, 2021, The 10th June 25, 2021
The 11th July 2, 2021
Venue: Online

2021.04.01

Database

The Real-Time MRI Articulatory Movement Database (Trial-release version) is publicly available.