Dates: January 26-27, 2019

Venue: NINJAL

Organizer: Yo MATSUMOTO (NINJAL)

The language of the conference: English.

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Overview:
How languages describe spatial motion events has been intensively studied in recent years in cognitive linguistics and linguistic typology, motivated to test the hypothesis in which languages can be categorized in terms of how Path of motion is expressed (Talmy 1990, 2000). However, languages in fact exhibit much more variations. In addition, the descriptions of motion event must consider different types of Path and Deixis, with the latter playing an important role in characterizing motion event descriptions in some languages like Japanese.

Invited speakers

  • Jürgen BOHNEMEYER (State University of New York)
  • Benjamin FAGARD (CNRS, ENS & Université Paris 3 Sorbonne nouvelle)

Other speakers

  • French Basque: ISHIZUKA Masayuki (The University of Tokyo Graduate Student)
  • French: MORITA Takahiro (Kyoto University)
  • German: TAKAHASHI Ryosuke (Sophia University)
  • Hungarian: EGUCHI Kiyoko (University of Miyazaki)
  • Ilocano: YAMAMOTO Kyosuke (Kyoto University)
  • Italian: YOSHINARI Yuko (Gifu University)
  • Japanese Sign Language: IMAZATO Noriko (Kobe City College of Technology)
  • Japanese: KOGA Hiroaki (Keio University)
  • Khorchin Mongolian: Badema (University of Inner Mongolia), MATSUMOTO Yo (NINJAL)
  • Kupsapiny: KAWACHI Kazuhiro (National Defense Academy of Japan)
  • Mandarin Chinese: KOJIMA Miyuki (Kansai University)
  • Mombasa Swahili: Monica KAHUMBURU (Catholic University of Eastern Africa), MATSUMOTO Yo (NINJAL)
  • Newar: MATSUSE Ikuko (Center for Newar Studies)
  • Russian: Anna BORDILOVSKAYA (Rikkyo University), MATSUMOTO Yo (NINJAL)
  • Sidaama: KAWACHI Kazuhiro (National Defense Academy of Japan)
  • Spanish: Iraide IBARRETXE-ANTUÑANO (Universidad de Zaragoza)
  • Tagalog: NAGAYA Naonori (Tokyo University of Foreign Studies)
  • Thai: TAKAHASHI Kiyoko (Kanda University of International Studies)
  • Manner: MORITA Takahiro (Kyoto University)
  • Path: MATSUMOTO Yo (NINJAL)
  • Deixis: KOGA Hiroaki (Keio University)
  • Interactional nature of deixis: MATSUMOTO Yo (NINJAL), XIA Haiyan (Kanagawa University)
  • Causation: MANO Miho (Naruto University of Education), MATSUMOTO Yo (NINJAL)
  • Vision: MATSUMOTO Yo (NINJAL)

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International Symposium: “Motion Event Descriptions across Languages (MEDAL)”