For the past four years, members of the joint research project "Typological and Historical/Comparative Research on the Languages of the Japanese Archipelago and its Environs" headquartered at the National Institute of Japanese Language and Linguistics have focused on the typological similarities and differences of the languages of Northeast Asia, and diachronic explanations for how they have come to be the way they are. One central motivation of the project has been to explore whether the Northeast Asian region coheres as a linguistic area. We are honored to be joined at this international symposium to be joined by colleagues from Hokkaido University and Helsinki University to explore the differences and commonalities of languages and language families in the region, including Ainu, Alutor, Japanese, Korean, Nivkh, Tungusic, and Yukaghir.
National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics (NINJAL)
Center for Northern Humanities, Hokkaido University Graduate School of Letters
Center for Ainu & Indigenous Studies, Hokkaido University
Helsinki Area & Language Studies Initiative, University of Helsinki
August 20-21, 2015
Hokkaido University, Humanities and Social Sciences Classroom Building, W201 (北海道大学人文・社会科学総合教育研究棟W201)
Registration not required (どなたでもご参加いただけます)
10:00 - 10:20 Registration
10:20 - 10:30 Welcome
10:30 - 11:00 Ergativity in Kolyma Yukaghir nominalizations (abstract) Iku Nagasaki (NINJAL)
11:00 - 11:30 Argument nominalization Alutor Yukari Nagayama (Hokkaido University)
11:30 - 12:00 On the possibility of community based dispersive Ainu language archives network (abstract) Itsuji Tangiku (Center for Ainu & Indigenous Studies, Hokkaido University) & Takayuki Hashimoto (Center for Ainu & Indigenous Studies, Hokkaido University)
13:30 - 14:00 Noun incorporation and the problem of accent assignment in Ainu Tomomi Satō (Hokkaido University)
14:00 - 14:30 The age of polysynthesis in Ainu Anna Bugaeva (NINJAL)
14:30 - 15:00 On the special features of the Shimdt peninsula dialect of Nivkh (abstract) Ekaterina Gruzdeva (University of Helsinki)
15:30 - 16:00 Stress-dependent height harmony in Nivkh (abstract) Hidetoshi Shiraishi (Sapporo Gakuin University) & Bert Botma (Leiden University)
16:00 - 16:30 On the historical origin and typological context of the Ainu possessive form (abstract) Juha Janhunen (University of Helsinki)
10:10 - 10:30 Registration
10:30 - 11:00 On the Silverstein's hierlarchy from the viewpoint of linguistic area and linguistic typology Shinjiro Kazama (Tokyo University of Foreign Studies)
11:00 - 11:30 Third person markings on the finite indicative forms in Tungusic (abstract) Sangyub Baek (Hokkaido University)
11:30 - 12:00 Manchu dialect diversity and its implications for Tungusic reconstruction (abstract) Andrew Joseph (Cornell University)
13:30 - 14:10 Suffixes vs. Enclitics in Japanese Grammar, with a time-honoured scriptura continua Osahito Miyaoka (Kyoto University emeritus)
14:10 - 14:40 A preliminary list of features for a typological database of Northeast Asian (and North Pacific) languages John Whitman (NINJAL / Cornell University) & Yohei Ono
14:40 - 15:10 Looking anew at data old and long established (abstract) Alfred F. Majewicz (Adam Mickiewicz University)
15:10 - 15:30 Concluding remarks John Whitman
Hokkaido University, Humanities and Social Sciences Classroom Building, W201 (北海道大学人文・社会科学総合教育研究棟W201) Kita 10, Nishi 7, Kita-ku, Sapporo(札幌市北区北10条西7丁目) - 10 minutes walk from Sapporo Station(JR札幌駅から徒歩約10分) - 10 minutes walk from Kitajuunijou Station(地下鉄南北線北12条駅から徒歩約10分)