National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics

2022

2023.03.28: Jobs; Employment Opportunities at Financial Affairs Division.
Open until April 14, 2023.

2023.03.24: Jobs; Academic Employment Opportunities.
Open until April 14, 2023.

2023.03.20: Event; The 247th NINJAL Salon "Simple Statistical Modelling of the Acceptance of COVID-19 Related Terms"
Speaker: YOKOYAMA Shoichi (NINJAL), AIZAWA Masao (NINJAL), TANAKA Makirou (Meiji University), HISANO Masaki (The University of Electro-Communications), TANAKA Yusuke (Aoyama Gakuin University)
Date(s): April 4, 2023 (15:10-16:10)
Venue: Online

2023.03.14: Jobs; Academic Employment Opportunities.
Open until April 21, 2023.

2023.03.14: Database; The Bibliographic Database of Japanese Language Research has been updated with 2,571 additional items.

2023.03.06: Event; 5th Conference on Proto-japonic
Date(s): March 13, 2023 (17:00-18:00)
Venue: Online

2023.03.01: Database; “Contrastive Vocabulary Table of Japanese, German, French and Spanish” has been released.

2023.03.01: Database; The transcribed text of “Nihongo shoho (Hawai Kyōikukyoku, 1925) ” has been released.

2023.02.28: Jobs; Employment Opportunities at Research Promotion Division.
Open until April 10, 2023.

2023.02.28: Jobs; Employment Opportunities at Financial Affairs Division.
Open until March 16, 2023.

2023.02.24: Event; The 132nd NINJAL Colloquium "Heritage Languages and Language as Heritage: The Language of Heritage in Canada and Beyond"
Speaker: Mark Turin (University of British Columbia)
Date(s): March 14, 2023 (15:30-17:30)
Venue: NINJAL, Online

2023.02.22: Event; A Symposium on "Research on Literacy of Immigrants in Japan": A Collaborative Research Project of the National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics (NINJAL) "From “Literacy In School” to “Literacy as a Social Practice”: Case Studies of Returnees From China and Sakhalin"
Date(s): March 12, 2023 (10:00-16:00)
Venue: Waseda University

2023.02.22: Jobs; Academic Employment Opportunities at Research Department.
Open until June 13, 2023.

2023.02.17: Event; Project-meeting "Digital Library for Humanities"
Date(s): March 7, 2023 (13:00-15:30)
Venue: Online

2023.02.17: Event; Database and Premodern Japanese Dictionaries, Sino-Japanese Research
Date(s): March 4, 2023 (9:45-17:00)
Venue: Online

2023.02.16: Event; Project-meeting "A multifaceted study of language problems in multilingual and multicultural Japan"
Date(s): March 11, 2023 (13:00-17:15), March 12, 2023 (13:00-17:00)
Venue: Online

2023.02.16: Event; Symposium "Language, Cognition, and Interaction 11"
Date(s): March 4, 2023 (13:00-18:00)
Venue: National Institute of Informatics

2023.02.16: Event; Symposium "Conversation Corpus" VIII

Date(s): March 3, 2023 (11:00-17:30)
Venue: Online

2023.02.15: Event; 4th Conference on Proto-japonic
Date(s): February 23, 2023 (17:00-18:00)
Venue: Online

2023.02.15: Event; NINJAL IR Symposium "What are the appropriate evaluation indicators for providing research resources?"
Date(s): March 7, 2023 (13:30-17:00)
Venue: NINJAL, Online

2023.02.14: Event; NINJAL-UHM Linguistics Workshop 2023
Date(s): February 16, 2023 (9:00-13:30), February 17, 2023 (12:20-16:00) (HST)
Venue: University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, Online

2023.02.13: Event; Project-meeting "A Study on the Use of Historical Documents of Social Surveys on Language"
Date(s): March 14, 2023 (15:00-17:00)
Venue: Online

2023.02.09: Event; 2022 NINJAL Seminar for Teachers of the Japanese Language (Overseas) "The Purpose of the Development of the “BTSJ 1000 Japanese Natural Conversation Corpus” and the “Natural Conversation Resource Bank (NCRB)” and its Application in Japanese Language Education"
Date(s): March 5, 2023 (13:00-17:00)
Venue: National Kaohsiung University of Science and Technology

2023.02.09: Event; 2022 NINJAL Seminar for Teachers of the Japanese Language (Overseas) "The Purpose of the Development of the “BTSJ 1000 Japanese Natural Conversation Corpus” and the “Natural Conversation Resource Bank (NCRB)” and its Application in Japanese Language Education"
Date(s): March 4, 2023 (13:00-17:00)
Venue: Chinese Culture University

2023.02.06: Event; 2022 NINJAL Seminar for Teachers of the Japanese Language (Domestic) "Supporting dictionary searches using smartphones by learners of Japanese: the reality of the use of dictionary tools among learners of Japanese around the world"
Date(s): March 9, 2023 (13:30-16:30)
Venue: Online

2023.02.03: Event; Symposium on Japanese Diachronic Corpora 2023
Date(s): March 10, 2023 (13:00-17:30)
Venue: Online

2023.02.02: Jobs; Academic Employment Opportunities.
Open until February 16, 2023.

2023.02.02: Jobs; Academic Employment Opportunities.
Open until February 13, 2023.

2023.02.02: Jobs; Employment Opportunities at Operations Support Office.
Open until March 8, 2023.

2023.02.02: Jobs; Employment Opportunities.
Open until February 17, 2023.

2023.02.02: Event; Project-meeting "Japan-related documents and artifacts in Hawaiʻi: historical and social survey interface"
Date(s): March 5, 2023 (13:00-15:30)
Venue: Online

2023.01.31: Event; The 46th NINJAL Tutorial "Introduction to utilization of the Corpus of Everyday Conversation"
Date(s): March 29, 2023 (10:00-16:30)
Venue: Online

2023.01.31: Publication; "NINJAL Research Papers" No. 24 was issued.

2023.01.30: Event; The 246th NINJAL Salon "The Use of Gairaigo in JFL Learners’ Writing: An Analysis of the Longitudinal Corpus of Chinese Native Speakers"
Speaker: WU Mei (Meiji University)
Date(s): March 7, 2023 (15:30-16:30)
Venue: Online

2023.01.26: Event; The 131st NINJAL Colloquium "Points of Comparison"
Speaker: Christopher D. Kennedy (Department of Linguistics, University of Chicago)
Date(s): February 28, 2023 (15:30-17:30)
Venue: NINJAL, Online

2023.01.23: Event; The 130th NINJAL Colloquium "Rethinking Identities: Distributed Identities Across People, Places, Things and Languages"
Speaker: OTSUJI Emi (University of Technology Sydney)
Date(s): February 14, 2023 (15:30-17:30)
Venue: Online

2023.01.20: Event; 18th CODH Seminar - Micro Typology and Digital Archive: Case Studies on Bantu languages and Japanese-Ryukyuan languages
Date(s): January 22, 2023 (16:30-19:30)
Venue: National Institute of Informatics, Online

2023.01.17: Event; The 129th NINJAL Colloquium "The Role of Word Order in Marking Case in Hentai Kanbun"
Speaker: Edith Aldridge (Institute of Linguistics, Academia Sinica)
Date(s): January 31, 2023 (15:30-17:30)
Venue: NINJAL, Online

2023.01.13: Event; Training Session on Full-Text Search System “Himawari”

Date(s): February 27, 2023 (13:30-17:00)
Venue: NINJAL

2023.01.12: Event; 3rd Conference on Proto-japonic
Date(s): January 21, 2023 (17:00-18:00) (JST)
Venue: Online

2023.01.11: Jobs; Employment Opportunities at Operations Support Office.
Open until February 8, 2023.

2023.01.06: Event; Project-meeting "Old Japanese Dictionaries Data Sharing and Expansion for Vocabulary and Notation Studies"
Date(s): January 21, 2023 (13:00-17:15)
Venue: Online

2022.12.28: Jobs; Academic Employment Opportunities at Research Department.
Open until January 23, 2023.

2022.12.28: Jobs; Academic Employment Opportunities at Research Department.
Open until January 16, 2023.

2022.12.22: Event; Project-meeting of Learner Dictionaries
Date(s): January 8, 2023 (14:00-18:00)
Venue: Online

2022.12.22: Event; Linguistics Festival 2023
Date(s): January 28, 2023 (10:30-17:00)
Venue: Online

2022.12.22: Database; The Bibliographic Database of Japanese Language Research has been updated with 837 additional items.

2022.12.21: Event; The 45th NINJAL Tutorial "Analysing L2 Spoken Japanese: Using Beijing Longitudinal Corpus of Japanese as a Second Language (B-JAS)"
Date(s): March 14, 2023 (13:30-16:30)
Venue: Online

2022.12.21: Event; Endangered Languages and Dialects of Japan Summit in Okinoerabu (Amami)
Date(s): January 28, 2023 (13:10-17:30), January 29, 2023 (10:00-15:30)
Venue: Okierabu Bunka Hall, Online

2022.12.15: Event; International Workshop on Nominalization, Gender and Classifiers
Date(s): January 9, 2023 (8:00-13:00)
Venue: Vietnam National University, Ho Chi Minh City

2022.12.15: Event; International Workshop on Nominalization, Gender and Classifiers
Date(s): January 3, 2023 (8:00-12:30)
Venue: The University of Da Nang

2022.12.15: Event; International Workshop on Nominalization, Gender and Classifiers
Date(s): January 2, 2023 (8:00-12:30)
Venue: The University of Da Nang

2022.12.15: Event; International Workshop on Nominalization, Gender and Classifiers
Date(s): December 29, 2022 (8:00-13:00)
Venue: Vietnam National University, Hanoi

2022.12.13: Event; The 17th NINJAL Forum "Japanese lexical resources: Their construction and applications"
Date(s): February 18, 2023 (9:10-16:05)
Venue: Online

2022.12.12: Event; 2nd Conference on Proto-japonic
Date(s): December 17, 2022 (17:00-18:00) (JST)
Venue: Online

2022.12.08: Event; The 128th NINJAL Colloquium "Japanese Gendered First-person Pronouns: Norms, Identity, and Sexuality"
Speaker: NAKAMURA Momoko (Kanto Gakuin University)
Date(s): January 10, 2023 (15:30-17:30)
Venue: Online

2022.11.25: Event; The 13th Dialogue System Symposium (The 96th Meeting of JSAI SIG-SLUD)
Date(s): December 13, 2022 (9:50-18:45), December 14, 2022 (9:30-17:30)
Venue: NINJAL, Online

2022.11.18: Event; The 127th NINJAL Colloquium "The Best Writing System of the World"
Speaker: Florian Coulmas (University of Duisburg-Essen)
Date(s): December 20, 2022 (15:30-17:30)
Venue: Online

2022.11.15: Event; 1st Conference on Proto-japonic
Date(s): November 24, 2022 (22:00-23:00) (JST)
Venue: Online

2022.11.15: Database; 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 November 18, 2022 until 9:00 on November 21, 2022 (JST)

2022.11.04: Jobs; Academic Employment Opportunities at Research Department.
Open until November 18, 2022.

2022.11.04: Event; The 245th NINJAL Salon "The Ideologies Inherent in Literacy: Literature Reviews to Reconsider Japanese Language Learning Support"
Speaker: FUKUMURA Makiko (Ibaraki University)
Date(s): November 29, 2022 (15:30-16:30)
Venue: Online

2022.11.01: Event; Training Session for Chunagon on the Corpus of Everyday Japanese Conversation [Elementary level]

Date(s): November 5, 2022 (10:00-12:00)
Venue: Online

2022.10.27: Event; Conservation of Endangered Languages and Prosody of Japonic Languages
Date(s): December 4, 2022 (9:00-16:00)
Venue: Online

2022.10.17: Event; NINJAL Symposium "Pioneering the Study of Language Resources: Using Open Language Resources for Japanese Linguistics"
Date(s): December 10, 2022 (10:00-17:15)
Venue: Online

2022.10.14: Database; "The Audio Database of Hatoma Example Sentences" has been released.

2022.10.11: News; On November 14 and 15, the Research Library will inspect the library collection.

2022.10.11: Event; The 244th NINJAL Salon "Japanese Benefactive Passives Are Difficult to Comprehend than Benefactive Actives"
Speaker: OGAWA Masataka (The University of Tokyo)
Date(s): November 15, 2022 (15:30-16:30)
Venue: Online

2022.10.05: Event; NAMED 2022 (Neglected aspects of motion-event description 2022)
Date(s): November 3-4, 2022
Venue: Kyoto University, Online

2022.09.30: Event; The 243rd NINJAL Salon "Web-based Surveys on Language Problems in Multilingual and Multicultural Situations in Japan"
Speakers: FUKUNAGA Yuka (NINJAL), YARIMIZU Kanetaka (NINJAL), TAKAGI Chie (Osaka University), TAKAHASHI Tomoko(Kindai University), MITSUI Harumi (Kokugakuin University), YOSHIDA Sachi (Atomi University), ASAHI Yoshiyuki (NINJAL)
Date(s): October 11, 2022 (15:30-16:30)
Venue: Online

2022.09.26: Event; Training Session for Chunagon on the Corpus of Japanese Dialects
Date(s): October 15, 2022 (13:30-17:00)
Venue: Online

2022.09.26: Database; The Bibliographic Database of Japanese Language Research has been updated with 1,075 additional items.

2022.09.21: Event; Tokyo Egyptology International Symposium "200 Years after Champollion —Text and Context in Ancient Egypt—"
Date(s): October 15, 2022 (17:30-20:30)
Venue: Ikebukuro Sunshine City Bunka Kaikan, Online

2022.09.14: Event; "Empirical Study of the Typology of Nominalization" Project First Research Meeting of fiscal year 2022
Date(s): September 23, 2022 (13:30-16:45)
Venue: The University of Tokyo, Online

2022.09.08: Event; The 126th NINJAL Colloquium "The Reduction of Word-Prosody Systems in Slavic Languages and Dialects (with Some Furtive Comparison to Japanese)"
Speaker: Marc L. GREENBERG (University of Kansas)
Date(s): October 4, 2022 (15:30-17:30)
Venue: NINJAL, Online

2022.09.01: Event; The 124th NINJAL Colloquium "Charting the English Influence on European Languages: Anglified Danish as a Case Study"
Speaker: Henrik GOTTLIEB (University of Copenhagen)
Date(s): September 20, 2022 (15:30-17:30)
Venue: NINJAL, Online

2022.08.26: Event; Inter-University Research Institute Symposium 2022
Date(s): October 16, 2022 (9:50-16:40)
Venue: Nagoya City Science Museum, Online

2022.08.22: Event; The 125th NINJAL Colloquium "Introduction to Dutch Dialect Geography"
Speaker: Wilbert HEERINGA (Fryske Akademy)
Date(s): September 27, 2022 (15:30-17:30)
Venue: Online

2022.08.17: Event; The 7th Learner Corpus Workshop & Symposium
Date(s): September 17, 2022 (10:00-17:00)
Venue: Online

2022.08.17: Event; The 123rd NINJAL Colloquium "Sign Language Methodology"
Speaker: Susan FISCHER (Rochester Institute of Technology / CUNY Graduate Center)
Date(s): September 13, 2022 (13:00-15:00)
Venue: NINJAL, Online

2022.08.09: Event; Seminar on intonation labeling

Date(s): September 16, 2022 (11:00-15:30)
Venue: NINJAL

2022.08.01: Publication; "NINJAL Research Papers" No. 23 was issued.

2022.07.29: Event; Training Session for Chunagon on the Corpus of Historical Japanese [Excel Intermediate level]
Date(s): August 26, 2022 (13:30-17:00)
Venue: Online

2022.07.29: Event; Training Session for Chunagon on the Corpus of Historical Japanese [Beginner's level]
Date(s): August 23, 2022 (13:30-17:00)
Venue: Online

2022.07.28: Event; NINJAL Open House 2022

Date(s): September 9, 2022
Venue: Web release

2022.07.26: Database; The List of Research Materials has been updated with 3 additional titles.

2022.07.20: Database; The following paper has been added to the "Pioneering Linguistic Works in Japan" site.
- "Shibata and Imada: Correlations Between Segments and Accent in Surnames" by SUGITŌ Miyoko (1998)

2022.07.19: Event; The 44th NINJAL Tutorial "Japanese Language Research by ‘Word List by Semantic Principles’"
Date(s): August 6, 2022 (10:00-15:00)
Venue: Online

2022.07.14: Event; The 242nd NINJAL Salon "From Motion to Emotion via Causality: A diachronic analysis of the expressions of “displacement” (te-)nokeru and (te-)shimau"
Speaker: ABE Sayaka (Middlebury College)
Date(s): July 26, 2022 (15:30-16:30)
Venue: NINJAL, Online

2022.07.14: Event; NIHONGO TANKEN 2022

Date(s): August 1, 2022
Venue: Web release

2022.07.12: Event; Project-meeting "Japan-related documents and artifacts in Hawaiʻi: historical and social survey interface"
Date(s): July 16, 2022 (13:00-15:00)
Venue: Online

2022.07.12: Event; The 4th Symposium of the Japanese Association of Sociolinguistic Sciences
Date(s): September 3, 2022 (13:30-17:45)
Venue: Ryukoku University

2022.07.12: Event; International Workshop on Nominalization, Gender and Classifiers
Date(s): August 6, 2022 (9:30-16:30)
Venue: The Central Institute for Indian Languages

2022.07.12: Event; International Workshop on Nominalization, Gender and Classifiers
Date(s): August 4, 2022 (10:00-16:30)
Venue: Deccan College Post-Graduate and Research Institute

2022.07.12: Event; International Workshop on Nominalization, Gender and Classifiers
Date(s): August 1, 2022 (9:30-16:30)
Venue: Indian Institute of Technology Madras

2022.07.11: Jobs; Academic Employment Opportunities at Research Department.
Open until August 5, 2022.

2022.07.08: News; "NINJAL Survey and Guide 2022/2023" was issued.

2022.07.07: Event; NINJAL/ROIS-DS Joint Seminar for Collaborative Research 2022
Date(s): September 12, 2022 (13:00-16:50)
Venue: Online

2022.07.05: Event; Picture Books of the Languages of Four Islands: See, Read, Listen, and Draw
Date(s): July 11 - August 10, 2022
Venue: Junkudo, Naha store

2022.06.30: Jobs; Academic Employment Opportunities at Research Department.
Open until August 5, 2022.

2022.06.28: Jobs; Academic Employment Opportunities at Research Department.
Open until August 8, 2022.

2022.06.20: Jobs; Academic Employment Opportunities at Research Department.
Open until June 29, 2022.

2022.06.17: Event; Research meeting of the semantics and grammar of predicates
Date(s): July 2, 2022 (13:30-14:45)
Venue: Online

2022.06.13: Database; Two more papers have been added to the “Pioneering Linguistic Works in Japan” site.
-AKINAGA Kazue "On Factors Contributing to Accent Shift" (1957)
-SAKAKURA Atsuyoshi "Historical Change in Conditional Expressions" (1975)

2022.06.10: Jobs; Academic Employment Opportunities at Research Department.

2022.06.07: Event; 29th International Conference on Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar (HPSG 2022)
Date(s): July 29-31, 2022
Venue: Online

2022.06.06: Event; Language Resources Workshop 2022

Date(s): August 30-31, 2022
Venue: Online

2022.06.06: Event; Workshop on Japanese Evaluation Dataset (JED2022): Breakout Session
Date(s): September 7, 2022 (9:30-17:30)
Venue: NINJAL, Online

2022.06.06: Event; Evidence-based Linguistics Workshop
Date(s): September 5, 2022 (9:30-17:30), September 6, 2022 (9:30-17:30)
Venue: NINJAL, Online

2022.06.01: Event; Tutorial: Preparing for open-access of the data collected through the Agency of Cultural Affiars' 1977-1985 research on the languages/dialects in Japan
Date(s): July 16, 2022 (13:00-16:00)
Venue: Online

2022.06.01: Event; New perspectives towards the reconstruction of Proto-Japanese-Ryukyuan: Research outlooks from the Ryukyuan languages
Date(s): June 19, 2022 (10:00-12:00)
Venue: Online

2022.06.01: Database; The List of Research Materials has been updated with 8 additional titles.

2022.05.30: Event; The 241st NINJAL Salon "Recent Academic Research Environment and Trends in Jxiv Preprints"
Speaker: YOKOYAMA Shoichi (NINJAL)
Date(s): June 21, 2022 (15:30-16:30)
Venue: Online

2022.05.26: Database; We have started distributing video data (mp4 format) of "Educational Video Material Series for Teaching Japanese as a Foreign Language (produced from 1974 to 1995)". (application required)

2022.05.25: Database; The Bibliographic Database of Japanese Language Research has been updated with 1,259 additional items.

2022.05.25: Event; The 122nd NINJAL Colloquium "Language and politics: Prime Ministers, Princess Aiko and Setouchi Jyakuchoo"
Speaker: AZUMA Shoji (The University of Utah)
Date(s): June 14, 2022 (15:30-17:30)
Venue: Online

2022.05.20: News; The National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics (NINJAL) published the research data policy.

2022.05.18: Event; The 240th NINJAL Salon "Discovery of Another Ternary Tonal System in Yaeyaman: Fieldwork Report on the Lexical Prosodic System of the Kohama Dialect"
Speakers: CELIK Kenan Thibault (NINJAL), ASO Reiko (Meio University), NAKAZAWA Kohei (Shinshu University)
Date(s): June 7, 2022 (15:30-16:30)
Venue: Online

2022.05.18: Event; The 239th NINJAL Salon "Introduction of Ninjal Collaborative Research Projects Starting This Year"
Speakers: ASAHARA Masayuki, ASAHI Yoshiyuki, ISHIGURO Kei, ONISHI Takuichiro, OGISO Toshinobu, KOISO Hanae, TAKADA Tomokazu, YAMADA Masahiro
Date(s): May 31, 2022 (15:30-17:30)
Venue: Online

2022.05.11: Event; The 238th NINJAL Salon "Introduction to the Corpora of the Center for Language Resource Development"
Speakers: KOISO Hanae, YAMAZAKI Makoto, OGISO Toshinobu, NOYAMA Hiroshi, SUGA Wakako, KOHARA Yujiro
Date(s): May 24, 2022 (15:30-17:30)
Venue: Online

2022.05.09: Event; Joint Project-meeting of Annotation, Predicates, and Learner Dictionaries
Date(s): May 28, 2022 (10:30-12:00)
Venue: Online

2022.05.06: Jobs; Academic Employment Opportunities at Research Department.
Open until May12, 2022.

2022.05.02: Event; Conservation of Endangered Languages and Prosody of Japonic Languages
Date(s): May 28, 2022 (10:00-16:00)
Venue: Online

2022.04.28: News; NINJAL will be closed from April 29th to May 8th.
During this period, we will not be able to receive telephones, FAX or letters - for any queries please use the query form on our website (under the link 'Contact Us'), but keep in mind that we cannot guarantee quick responses. We apologize for the inconvenience and appreciate your understanding.

2022.04.21: Event; The 237th NINJAL Salon "Relation between Construction and Simile: From Comparison of "atakamo" and "sanagara""
Speaker: KIKUCHI Rei (NINJAL)
Date(s): May 10, 2022 (15:30-16:30)
Venue: Online

2022.04.15: Database; The Real-Time MRI Articulatory Databases, Version 1, has been released.

2022.04.11: Event; Research meetings of the semantics and grammar of predicates
Date(s): April 23, 2022 (10:30-12:00)
Venue: Online

2022.04.04: News; We have redesigned our website.

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