NINJAL Colloquia and Lecture Meetings (2010)

NINJAL Colloquia

Date Speaker Title
14thTuesday, March 29, 2011
Time: 15:30-17:30
Jeff SIEGEL
(The University of New England)
"Why Is It So Hard to Learn a Second Dialect? The Case of Australian English"
[Cancelled]
13thTuesday, February 15, 2011
Time: 15:30-17:30
Wesley JACOBSEN
(Harvard University)
"On the Interface Between Time and Modality in Japanese Conditionals: In Search of the Semantic Roots of 'Hypothetical' Meaning"
12thTuesday, January 18, 2011
Time: 15:30-17:30
John WHITMAN
(Cornell University)
"Degrammaticalization from the Standpoint of Syntactic Theory:
With a Focus on Keredomo in Japanese"
11thTuesday, December 21, 2010
Time: 10:00-12:00
Wayne LAWRENCE
(University of Auckland)
"On the Reconstruction of the Proto Northern Ryukyuan Tonal System"
10thTuesday, November 16, 2010
Time: 15:00-17:00
Peter HOOK
(University of Michigan)
"Complex Predicates in Hindi-Urdu
9thTuesday, October 19, 2010
Time: 15:00-17:00
Armin MESTER
(University of California, Santa Cruz)
"The Loanword Debate in German and Japanese: A Linguistic Perspective"
8thFriday, September 24, 2010
Time: 13:30-16:45
Robin LICKLEY
(Queen Margaret University)
"Issues in the Production and Perception of Disfluent Speech"
8thFriday, September 24, 2010
Time: 13:30-16:45
Dale BARR
(University of Glasgow)
"Mutual Understanding and the Paradox of Egocentrism in Communication"
7thThursday, July 8, 2010
Time: 16:00-18:00
PARK Jin-ho
(Seoul National University)
"Structurization of Korean Kugyol Materials from a Computational Point of View"
6thTuesday, June 8, 2010
Time: 16:00-18:00
MINAMI Masahiko
(San Francisco State University)
"Cohesion and Coherence in Narrative Discourse: How to Evaluate Stories Told by English-Japanese Bilingual Children"
5thFriday, May 21, 2010
Time: 16:00-18:00
SHIMOJI Michinori
(Gunma Prefectural Women's University)
"The Importance of Transcribed Texts in Syntactic Description: The Case of Irabu Ryukyuan"
4thSaturday, May 8, 2010
Time: 14:00-16:00
Andrej MALCHUKOV
(Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology)
"Cross-linguistically Rare Patterns of Case-marking and Their Theoretical Implications"
3rdFriday, March 19, 2010
Time: 16:00-18:00
SHIBATANI Masayoshi
(Rice University)
"What Connects Theoretical Studies and Dialect Studies?: The Function and Development of Nominalization Particles"
2ndMonday, February 22, 2010
Time: 16:00-18:00
ITO Junko
(University of California, Santa Cruz)
"Parsing Constraints and the Prosodic Hierarchy"
1stFriday, December 4, 2009
Time: 16:00-18:00
KITA Sotaro
(University of Birmingham)
"Why Does Language Express Information Linearly?: Insight from Nicaraguan Sign Language and Children's Gestures"