Program
Conference Program (Last updated: 2018.08.07)
(You can download the detailed program by clicking on the link above.)
Prof. John Whitman's talk (Day 1: Aug.6) has been cancelled due to unforeseen circumstances. As an alternative program, Dr. Thomas Pellard (French National Centre for Scientific Research) has kindly accepted to give a keynote talk for the symposium. (2018-07-30)
5 AUG (Sun) Poster Session and Workshop
(You can download the list of poster presentations by clicking on the link above.)
- 9:00-10:00
- Registration
- 10:00-11:30
- Poster session 1
- 11:30-12:15
- Workshop 1:
ŌHARA Yumiko (University of Hawai‘i at Hilo)
“A brief introduction to the immersion classroom: A case of Hawaiian language” [abstract] - 13:45-15:15
- Poster session 2
- 15:15-16:00
- Workshop 2:
ŌHARA Yumiko (University of Hawai‘i at Hilo)
“A brief introduction to the immersion classroom: A case of Hawaiian language” [abstract]
Day1: 6 AUG (Mon) Ryūkyū, Hachijō and Japanese
- 9:00
- Opening Remarks
- 9:20-10:20
- Keynote Talk
Thomas PELLARD (French National Centre for Scientific Research) “The comparative study of the Japonic languages” [resume] - 10:35-12:40
- Session 1: Ryūkyū and Hachijō
Coordinator: KARIMATA Shigehisa (University of the Ryukyus / NINJAL), SHIMOJI Michinori (Kyushu University / NINJAL)
KARIMATA Shigehisa (U Ryukyus / NINJAL) “Kyushu dialects and the difference between Northern and Southern Ryukyuan languages” [abstract / resume]
KANEDA Akihiro & Martin HOLDA (Chiba U) “Hachijō and South Ryukyuan languages and East-Northeast Japan dialects from the viewpoint of the concentric circle theory of dialect divergence” [abstract / resume]
SHIMOJI Michinori (Kyushu U / NINJAL) “Ryukyuan languages from a typological perspective: with a special focus on marked nominative” [abstract / resume]
IGARASHI Yōsuke (Hitotsubashi U) “Towards an adequate description of the tonal systems of Southern Ryukyuan” [abstract / resume] - 13:30-14:45
- Session 2: Revitalization in Ryūkyū
Coordinator: YAMADA Masahiro (NINJAL)
YAMADA Masahiro (NINJAL) “Port Language Revitalization Project” [abstract / resume]
YAMAMOTO Fumi (Kyoto City U Arts) “Linguists, community members, and designers -Why do we collaborate for language revitalization?” [abstract / resume]
YOKOYAMA Akiko (JSPS/NINJAL) “Action research in endangered language communities” [abstract / resume]
MATSUMURA Yukie (from Okinoerabu) “A Role of Mother Tongue” [abstract / resume] - 15:00-16:30
- Session 3: Japanese dialects
Coordinator: SASAKI Kan (Ritsumeikan University / NINJAL), KIBE Nobuko (NINJAL)
SASAKI Kan (Ritsumeikan U / NINJAL) “Case in Japanese dialects” [abstract / resume]
TSUDA Satoshi (Miyagi U Education) “Aspect and tense in Japanese dialects” [abstract / resume]
KIBE Nobuko (NINJAL) “Accent systems in Japanese dialects” [abstract / resume] - 16:45-17:45
- Round Table
Chair: IWASAKI Shōichi (University of California, Los Angeles / NINJAL) [resume] - 18:15-
- Reception Dinner
Day2: 7 AUG (Tues) Ainu and Northeast Asia
- 9:00
- Welcome
- 9:05-10:05
- Keynote Talk
Juha JANHUNEN (University of Helsinki) “Ainu ethnogenesis” [abstract / resume] - 10:20-12:30
- Session 4: The dispersal of Ainu and its contact with neighboring languages
Coordinator: Anna BUGAEVA (Tokyo University of Science / NINJAL)
NAKAGAWA Hiroshi (Chiba U) “Major syntactic differences between Sakhalin and Hokkaido dialects of Ainu” [abstract / resume]
FUKAZAWA Mika (National Ainu Museum) “Hokkaido Ainu Dialects: Variation from the perspective of the geographical distribution of vocabulary” [abstract / resume]
SATO Tomomi (Hokkaido U) & Anna BUGAEVA (Tokyo U Science / NINJAL) “The study of old documents of Hokkaido and Kuril Ainu: Promise and challenges” [abstract / resume]
TANGIKU Itsuji (Hokkaido U) “Language contact between Ainu and Northern languages” [resume] - 13:30-14:30
- Keynote Talk
Ekaterina GRUZDEVA (University of Helsinki) “Linguistic diversity and language contact in Sakhalin Island” [abstract / resume ] - 14:45-16:25
- Session 5: Northeast Asia
Coordinator: KUREBITO Megumi (University of Toyama)
BAEK Sangyub (Muroran IT) “Ainu and Tungusic from the perspective of linguistic typology and areal linguistics” [abstract / resume]
KUREBITO Megumi (U Toyama) “Divergence in the distribution of applicatives and noun incorporation in Koryak and Ainu” [abstract / resume]
ONO Chikako (Chiba U) “Typological features of Itelmen and its neighboring languages” [abstract / resume] - 16:40-17:40
- Round Table
Chair: Anna BUGAEVA (Tokyo University of Science / NINJAL)
Day3: 8 AUG (Wed) Documentation and Revitalization (in general)
- 9:00-9:15
- NINJAL-UHM Session
TAKUBO Yukinori (NINJAL), FUKUDA Shin’ichiro (University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa) - 9:15-10:15
- Keynote Talk
William O‘GRADY (University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa) “The Linguistics of Language Revitalization” [abstract / resume] - 10:15-11:15
- Keynote Talk
TAKUBO Yukinori (NINJAL) “Mutual intelligibility as a measure for linguistic distance and intergenerational transmission” [abstract / resume] - 11:30-12:30
- Keynote Talk
ŌHARA Yumiko (University of Hawai‘i at Hilo) “Revitalization and renormalization of Hawaiian language: Challenges and possible contributions to the revitalization of other languages” [abstract / resume] - 13:30-15:30
- Session 6: Documentation and Revitalization
Coordinator: NAKAYAMA Toshihide, SHIOHARA Asako (ILCAA, TUFS)
Yanti (Atma Jaya Catholic University of Indonesia) & SHIOHARA Asako (ILCAA, TUFS) “Efforts in Language Documentation in a Linguistically Diverse Country: Building up Collaborations of Various Stakeholders” [abstract / resume]
NAKAYAMA Toshihide (ILCAA, TUFS) “Problematizing language and revitalization: Why language documentation hits a wall in revitalization” [abstract / resume] - 15:45-16:45
- Keynote Talk
Mark TURIN & Victoria SEAR (University of British Columbia) “Critical Lexicography: Exploring the Role of Dictionaries in Language Revitalization” [abstract / resume] - 16:45-17:00
- Closing remarks
KIBE Nobuko (NINJAL)