International Symposium "Crosslinguistics and linguistic crossings in Northeast Asia"

  1. Date: November 28-29, 2014


  2. Venue: University of Helsinki


  3. 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