Date: November 28-29, 2014
Venue: University of Helsinki
Sponsored by: Helsinki Area & Language Studies (HALS), National Institute of Japanese Language and Linguistics (NINJAL)
Program
Friday, 28 November
9.15-9.45
Ekaterina Gruzdeva & Juha Janhunen (University of Helsinki)
Opening of HALS Field Seminar 2
Session 1: Field observations from Sakhalin
Chair: Ksenia Shagal
9.45-10.00
Andrew Logie (University of Helsinki)
Untold Tales: two lesser known personal and social-linguistic histories of Sakhalin Koreans
10.00-10.15
Eeva-Maria Heinonen & Suvi Valsta (University of Helsinki)
Sakhalin Japanese – an overview of the linguistic situation with special focus on Japanese pitch accents
10.15-10.30
Merja Pikkarainen (University of Helsinki)
Linguistic biographies of the indigenous peoples on Sakhalin
Coffee break
11.00-11.15
Juha Luukkonen (University of Helsinki)
Attrition of consonant mutation in Nivkh
11.15-11.30
Erika Sandman (University of Helsinki)
Observations on the use of Nivkh numeral classifiers
11.30-11.45
Arttu Anttonen & Saana Santalahti & Turo Ylitalo (University of Helsinki)
The traditional Nivkh kinship terminology and its use amongst modern Nivkh
11.45-12.00
Merja Salo (University of Helsinki)
Meteorological expressions in Nivkh
Lunch
Session 2: Comparative issues of Sakhalin (Karafuto) and Hokkaido
Chair: Hiroshi Nakagawa
13.30-14.00
Yoshiyuki Asahi (NINJAL)
Sociolinguistics of Karafuto and Sakhalin Japanese
14.00-14.30
Riikka Länsisalmi (University of Helsinki)
Northern Voices: Comparing language attitudes in recent surveys on Ainu and Sámi
14.30-15.00
Coffee break
15.00-15.30
Janne Saarikivi (University of Helsinki)
Some observations on social history of the Nivkh (on the basis of toponymic and sociolinguistic material)
15.30-16.00
Itsuji Tangiku (Hokkaido University)
Loan words among Nivkh, Uilta and Sakhalin Ainu
16.00-16.30
Juha Janhunen (University of Helsinki)
Reconstructio externa linguae ghiliacorum
Saturday, 29 November
Session 3: Nominalization in the languages of Northeast Asia
Chair: Janne Saarikivi
9.15-9.30
Ksenia Shagal (University of Helsinki)
Participial relative clauses in Sakhalin languages
9.30-10.00
Iku Nagasaki (NINJAL)
Nominalization and related functions in Kolyma Yukaghir
10.00-10.30
Yukari Nagayama (Hokkaido University)
Nominalization in Alutor
Coffee break
11.00-11.30
Anna Bugaeva (NINJAL)
The development of nominalization strategies in Ainu
11.30-12.00
John Whitman (Cornell University)
Nominalization to main clause in Northeast Asia
Lunch
Session 4: History and synchrony in the Northeast Asian linguistic area
Chair: John Whitman
13.30-14.00
Shinjiro Kazama (Tokyo University of Foreign Studies)
On the similarity between Mongolic, Tungusic and Eskimo-Aleut languages
14.00-14.30
Tomomi Sato (Hokkaido University)
A classification of Ainu noun incorporation and its implications for typology in word formation
14.30-15.00
Hiroshi Nakagawa (Chiba University)
Verbal Number in Ainu
Coffee break
15.30-16.00
Ekaterina Gruzdeva (University of Helsinki)
Epistemic modality and related categories in Nivkh
16.00-16.30
Discussion about future cooperation
16.30-17.00
Ekaterina Gruzdeva & Juha Janhunen (University of Helsinki)
Closing of HALS Field Seminar 2
