Past Events of NINJAL
(FY2009-2021)

The NINJAL International Symposium "Approaches to Endangered Languages in Japan and Northeast Asia: Description, Documentation and Revitalization"

Date

August 5 (Sun), 2018
Poster Session and Workshop

August 6 (Mon) - 8 (Wed), 2018
The NINJAL International Symposium "Approaches to Endangered Languages in Japan and Northeast Asia: Description, Documentation and Revitalization"

Venue

Auditorium, National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics (NINJAL)
10-2 Midori-cho, Tachikawa City, Tokyo
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Sponsors

Endangered Languages and Dialects in Japan, NINJAL
Core Project “Linguistic Dynamics Science3” (LingDy3), Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa (ILCAA), Tokyo University of Foreign Studies (TUFS)
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (S) Comparative historical research on Ryukyuan by using linguistic family trees

Website

Please visit the conference website for more information.
http://www2.ninjal.ac.jp/ael/index.html

Contact

ael[at]ninjal.ac.jp
(Replace [at] with @.)

Preregistration

Preregistration form is closed.

Registration Fee

Until 6 July
JPY 5,000 (regular) / JPY3,500 (student, MA, PhD)

From 7 July to 27 July
JPY 7,000 (all)

Lunch will be provided each day from 5 August to 8 August. The lunch fee is included in the registration fee.

Program

5AUG (Sun) 　Poster Session and Workshop

9:00-10:00Registration

10:00-11:30Poster session 1

11:30-12:15Workshop 1 "A brief introduction to the immersion classroom: A case of Hawaiian language"

ŌHARA Yumiko (University of Hawai‘i at Hilo)

13:45-15:15Poster session 2

15:15-16:00Workshop 2 "A brief introduction to the immersion classroom: A case of Hawaiian language"

ŌHARA Yumiko (University of Hawai‘i at Hilo)

6AUG (Mon) 　Ryūkyū, Hachijō and Japanese

9:00Opening Remarks

9:05-10:05Keynote Talk "The comparative study of the Japonic languages"

Thomas PELLARD (French National Centre for Scientific Research)

10:35-12:40Session 1 "Ryūkyū and Hachijō"

Coordinator: KARIMATA Shigehisa (University of the Ryukyus), SHIMOJI Michinori (Kyushu University)

13:30-14:45Session 2 "Revitalization in Ryūkyū"

Coordinator: YAMADA Masahiro (NINJAL)

15:00-16:30Session 3 "Japanese dialects"

Coordinator: SASAKI Kan (Ritsumeikan University), KIBE Nobuko (NINJAL)

16:45-17:45Round Table

Chair: IWASAKI Shoichi (University of California, Los Angeles)

7AUG (Tues) 　Ainu and Northeast Asia

9:00Welcome

9:05-10:05Keynote Talk "Ainu ethnogenesis"

Juha JANHUNEN (University of Helsinki)

10:20-12:30Session 4 "The dispersal of Ainu and its contact with neighboring languages"

Coordinator: Anna BUGAEVA (Tokyo University of Science)

13:30-14:30Keynote Talk "Linguistic diversity and language contact in Sakhalin Island"

Ekaterina GRUZDEVA (University of Helsinki)

14:45-16:25Session 5 "Northeast Asia"

Coordinator: KUREBITO Megumi (Toyama University)

16:40-17:40Round Table

Chair: Anna BUGAEVA (Tokyo University of Science / NINJAL)

8AUG (Wed) 　Documentation and Revitalization (in general)

9:00-9:15NINJAL-UHM Session

TAKUBO Yukinori (NINJAL), FUKUDA Shin'ichiro (University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa)

9:15-10:15Keynote Talk "The Linguistics of Language Revitalization"

William O'GRADY (University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa)

10:15-11:15Keynote Talk "Mutual intelligibility as a measure for linguistic distance and intergenerational transmission"

TAKUBO Yukinori (NINJAL)

11:30-12:30Keynote Talk "Revitalization and renormalization of Hawaiian language: Challenges and possible contributions to the revitalization of other languages"

ŌHARA Yumiko (University of Hawai‘i at Hilo)

13:30-15:30Session 6 "Documentation and Revitalization"

Coordinator: NAKAYAMA Toshihide, SHIOHARA Asako (ILCAA, TUFS)

15:45-16:45Keynote Talk "Critical Lexicography: Exploring the Role of Dictionaries in Language Revitalization"

Mark TURIN, Victoria SEAR (University of British Columbia)

16:45-17:00Closing remarks

KIBE Nobuko (NINJAL)