23.1590, Calls: Japanese, Typology, General Linguistics/Japan

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Subject: 23.1590, Calls: Japanese, Typology, General Linguistics/Japan

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Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2012 10:50:30
From: Kyoko Kanzaki [kanzaki at ninjal.ac.jp]
Subject: NINJAL International Symposium on Valency Classes and Alternations in Japanese

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Full Title: NINJAL International Symposium on Valency Classes and Alternations in Japanese 

Date: 04-Aug-2012 - 05-Aug-2012
Location: Tokyo, Japan 
Contact Person: Kyoko Kanzaki
Meeting Email: kanzaki at ninjal.ac.jp
Web Site: http://www.ninjal.ac.jp/english/event/symposium/ 

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics; Typology 

Subject Language(s): Japanese (jpn)

Call Deadline: 11-May-2012 

Meeting Description:

This is to announce that NINJAL (National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics), with cooperation of Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology (MIP-EVA), holds an international conference on the valency classes and alternations in Japanese. Complementary to MPI-EVA's typological project 'Valency classes in the world's languages', this conference places special focus on the Japanese language, discussing the universal and language-particular properties of its valency classes and alternations from a variety of perspectives including syntax, semantics, morphology, history, dialects, and acquisition. 

Speakers (provisional):

Andrej Malchukov (Mainz / MPI-EVA), guest speaker
Søren Wichmann (MPI-EVA), guest speaker
Masayoshi Shibatani (Rice/NINJAL), guest speaker
Taro Kageyama (NINJAL) (semantics/syntax)
Wesley Jacobsen (Harvard) (semantics)
Hideki Kishimoto (Kobe) (syntax)
Yo Matsumoto (Kobe) (semantics/morphology)
Natsuko Tsujimura (Indiana) (semantics/syntax)
Michiaki Saito (Tohoku) (morphology)
Hideki Kobayashi (Gunma) (morphology)
Yoko Yumoto (Osaka) (semantics/syntax)
Makiro Tanaka (NINJAL) (corpus)
Kan Sasaki (Sapporo Gakuin) (northern dialects)
Michinori Shimoji (Gunma Women's U/NINJAL) (Ryukyuan dialects)
John Whitman (NINJAL) and Bjarke Frellesvig (Oxford/NINJAL) (Old Japanese)
Sotaro Kita (Birmingham) (first language acquisition)
Keiko Murasugi (Nanzan) (first language acquisition)
Yasuhiro Shirai (Pittsburg/NINJAL) (second language acquisition)
Prashant Pardeshi (NINJAL) (contrastive studies)

Some talks are given in English, and the others in Japanese. 

Call for Papers:

Proposals for poster presentations by young researchers (especially, graduate students and post-doc researchers) are now being accepted.

Deadline: May 11, 2012

Submission: Email your proposal including the following information to Kanzaki at ninjal.ac.jp.

1. Title  
2. Name (Specify your student status if applicable)  
3. Abstract with approximately 200 words

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