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Date: 25-Oct-2026
From: Étienne Baudel [etienne.baudel at ehess.fr]
Subject: A Panlectal Descriptive Grammar of Hachijō, an Eastern Japonic Variety - Including a Few Insights on Diachrony


Institution: École des hautes études en Sciences sociales
Program: Arts et Langage
Degree Date: 2026
Level: PhD

Author: Étienne Baudel

Dissertation Title: A Panlectal Descriptive Grammar of Hachijō, an
Eastern Japonic Variety - Including a Few Insights on Diachrony

Dissertation URL: https://theses.fr/2026EHES0050

Linguistic Field(s): Anthropological Linguistics
                     General Linguistics
                     Language Documentation
                     Sociolinguistics
                     Text/Corpus Linguistics

Subject Language(s): Hachijo (hach1239)

Language Family(ies): Japonic (japo1237)

Dissertation Director(s): Françoise Bottéro, Laurence Labrune

Dissertation Abstract:

Hachijō (八丈, simply called Shima-kotoba 島言葉 or ‘island words’ by its
native speakers) is a critically endangered Japonic variety,
traditionally spoken on the Southern half of the Izu archipelago,
about 300 km South-East of Tōkyō. Its classification within the
Japonic language family is still a matter of debate.This dissertation
aims at contributing to the documentation and preservation of Hachijō,
by proposing a corpus-based panlectal description of its phonology,
lexicon, morphology and syntax, as well as some preliminary
observations toward its classification.


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