The exercise site for an introductory syntax textbook is now available

Analyzing Japanese Syntax: A Generative Perspective is an introductory textbook that illustrates the basic ideas of the most influential syntactic theory of generative grammar and shows how Japanese syntax can be analyzed using concrete examples from a range of phenomena. Exercises for this textbook have been developed in collaboration with the NPCMJ project, and include advanced-level exercises using an online search engine for NPCMJ. Exercises for Analyzing Japanese Syntax: A Generative Perspective

Call for posters: NINJAL International Symposium “Exploiting Parsed Corpora: Applications in Research, Pedagogy, and Processing”

We are pleased to announce that the National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics (NINJAL) will host an International Symposium, “Exploiting Parsed Corpora: Applications in Research, Pedagogy, and Processing” Dec 9-10, 2017 in Tachikawa, Tokyo. Topics to be covered include the development and enrichment of parsed corpora, linguistic research using parsed corpora, and the application of parsed corpora to language pedagogy. Invited speakers are leaders in the field, including Susan Pintzuk, Anthony Kroch, Beatrice Santorini, Sean Wallis, Nianwen Xue, and Liesbeth Augustinus. A poster session is also planned. Those interested in presenting a poster, please send a one-page abstract to corpora_applications@ninjal.ac.jp by 1 October 2017. Notification of acceptance will be