• 15:00-15:30 Honoré WATANABE (ILCAA) “A Report on Three Collaborations: Linguistics, History, Archaeology”
• 15:30-16:00 Hideo FUKAZAWA (ILCAA) “Interfaces between public order and popular order in northwestern Madagascar”
• 16:00-16:10 break
• 16:10-16:40 Makoto MINEGISHI (ILCAA) “Dynamic analysis of Thai tones”
• 16:40-17:10 Hirohide KURIHARA (ILCAA) “Some Reflections on the Reliability of Historical Materials”
• Language: Japanese
• Admission：Free

International workshop on information structure of Austronesian languages

• Outline:

  This workshop will primarily discuss the way information structure (e.g., sentence topic, sentence focus, definiteness of the NP)to be coded in the grammatical structure of the Austronesian languages.

• Co-ordinators: Atsuko UTSUMI (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Meisei University) and Asako SHIOHARA (ILCAA)
• 13 December
• 1. Nancy HEDBERG (Simon Fraser University) “Applying the Givenness Hierarchy Framework: Methodological Issues”
• Abstract (English)68KB
• 2. Isabelle BRIL (LACITO-CNRS (French National Centre for Scientific Research)) “Informational status and informational hierarchy in Natauran-Amis (Formosan)”
• Abstract (English)27KB
• 3. Kunio NISHIYAMA (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Ibaraki University) “The syntax of information structures in Lamaholot”
• Abstract (English)57KB
• 4. Hiroko SATO (University of Hawai’i at Manoa) “Definiteness and specificity in Kove”
• Abstract (English)34KB
• 5. Stefan SCHNELL (La Trobe University) “Topicalisation and pronominalisation across genres: A usage-based approach to left-dislocation and pronominal resumption in Vera’a(North Vanuatu)”
• Abstract (English)85KB
• 6. Midori OSUMI (ILCAA Joint Researcher,Tokyo Woman’s Christian University) “Information Structure in Tinrin & Neku: topicalization, impersonal constructions, & passive”
• Abstract (English)63KB
• 7. Masahiko NOSE (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Shiga University) “Information structure in Amele, Papua New Guinea”
• Abstract (English)16KB
• 8. Yoshimi MIYAKE (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Akita University) “The information structure of Javanese narratives of experiences”
• Abstract (English)16KB
• 14 December
• 1. Naomi TSUKIDA (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Aichi Prefectural University) “Topic and Focus in Seediq”
• Abstract (English)17KB
• 2. Rik De BUSSER(National Chengchi University) “Information structure in Takivatan Bunun,with special attention to the role of ellipsis”
• Abstract (English)16KB
• 3. Anja LATROUITE (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf) “Information Structure and Grammaticalization in Tagalog”
• Abstract (English)53KB
• 4. Hiroaki KITANO(ILCAA Joint Researcher, Aichi University of Education) and Michael Raymon M. PANGILINAN (ILCAA) “Motivations for PAMANAKMUL AMANU ‘word swallowing’ in Kapampangan”
• Abstract (English)20KB
• 5. Atsuko UTSUMI (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Meisei University) “Newly introduced NPs, continuous topics, and contrastive topics in Bantik discourse”
• Abstract (English)20KB
• 6. YANTI (Atma Jaya Catholic University of Indonesia), Timothy MCKINNON (MPI EVA Jakarta, University of Delaware), Peter COLE (University of Delaware, MPI EVA Leipzig) and Gabriella HERMON (University of Delaware, MPI EVA Leipzig) “Marking Information Status in Tapus Minangkabau”
• Abstract (English)16KB
• 7. John BOWDEN (Jakarta Field Station, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology) “Towards an account of Colloquial Jakarta Indonesian information structure”
• Abstract (English)28KB
• 8. Asako SHIOHARA (ILCAA) “Information structure and information status of Sumbawa, Indonesia”
• Abstract (English)17KB
• 15 December
• 1. Daniel KAUFMAN (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Endangered Language Alliance) “Clefting and question formation across Indonesia”
• Abstract (English)17KB
• 2. Kazuya INAGAKI (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Kyoto University) “Information structure in Kadorih”
• Abstract (English)90KB
• 3. Antonia SORIENTE (University of Naples “L’Orientale”) “Informations structure devices in Punan Tubu’”
• Abstract (English)64KB
• 4. Discussion
• 5. Closing
• 6. Business meeting
• Language: English
• Admission: Free
• Advanced registration: Required
• For details, please see here.

Organized by

Linguistic Dynamics Science Project (LingDy2)

• Program of the meeting (in Japanese)
• Language: Japanese

Supported by

JCAS (Japan Consortium for Area Studies)

• 1. Discussion about Publication of Results
• Publication Plan 1. Hiroki ISHIKAWA “Food and Agriculture in African History”
• Publication Plan 2. Tadasu TSURUTA “Indigenous Agricultural Revolution in Africa”
• Language: Japanese

• 22 December
• 1. Introduction
• 2. Jun AKIBA (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Chiba University) Reading the Court Registers (marriage and divorce I)
• 3. Jun AKIBA (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Chiba University) Reading the Court Registers (marriage and divorce II)
• 23 December
• 1. Jun AKIBA (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Chiba University) Reading Ilam(petition)s I
• 2. Jun AKIBA (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Chiba University) Reading Ilam(petition)s II
• 3. Yoichi TAKAMATSU (ILCAA) Reading decree texts in the Court Registers and Ahkam Defteri
• 4. General Discussion
• Language: Japanese
• Admission:Free
• Advanced registration is required. Please see here.(in Japanese)
• For more details, please see here. (in Japanese.)

Organized by

Core Project “Human Mobility and Formation of Plural Societies in the Middle East and the Muslim World”

Jointly sponsored by

NIHU PROGRAM IAS Center at the Toyo Bunko(TBIAS), ILCAA Joint Research Project “Early Modern Islamic States and Plural Societies”

• 1. Salim HATUBOU (écrivain et chercheur des contes) “Tradition des contes comoriens et leur valeur d'aujourd'hui.” (Tentative)
• 2. Comment by Keiya HANABUCHI (Health Sciences University of Hokkaido)
• Language: French (simultaneous interpretation(French→Japanese)available)
• Admission: Free

Organized by

Information Resources Center (IRC)

Core Project “Pluralistic World Understanding based on African Studies” Open Meeting: The Change of African Peasant Livelihood: The Creativety and Difficulty in a rural village along a Conflict Country

• Rumiko MURAO (ILCAA)
• Comentators: Mitsuo OGURA (Tsuda College), Kaori KOMATSU (Shizuoka University)
• Language: Japanese
• Admission: Free

Organized by

Core Project “Pluralistic World Understanding based on African Studies”

• Lecturers: Peter Austin (SOAS, University of London)
  David Nathan (SOAS, University of London)
  Anthony Jukes (CRLD, La Trobe University)
  Hideo Sawada (ILCAA)
  and others
• Programme: This workshop aims to provide methodological and technical training in various aspects of language documentation and archiving of endangered/minority languages, dealing with topics including:
  ・overviews of language documentation and archiving
  ・audio/video recording
  ・data management
  ・data mobilization
  ・archiving
  ・photography in language documentation
  ・fieldwork issues
• Please visit our webpage for details:
• Call for participants:
• Application Form:
• Deadline for applications:The application must arrive no later than 12:00 (Japan Standard Time), 25th November 2013.