Joint Research Projects
ILCAA Joint Research Projects, conducted by the members of the institute in collaboration with researchers outside the institute, constitute the core of research activities at ILCAA as the International Research Center for the Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa. Members of all the projects who are not regular staff at ILCAA are all given an affiliation with ILCAA as Joint Researchers.
The Joint Research Projects are evaluated annually by the Advisory Committee for Research Collaboration, which includes researchers within and outside ILCAA. Projects are evaluated in terms of all of their activities, including their output, publicactions of the results, and their overall academic significance.
Research results of Joint Research Projects in the past include about 600 publications and on-line dictionaries and databases that are available for use by any researchers and the general public.
Some Joint Research Projects are also organized by outside researchers.
For information on upcoming meetings of the projects, go to Upcoming Events.
Ongoing Projects in 2013
(Projects are categorized into three groups, linguistics, anthropology, and history/area studies; however, many of them are interdisciplinary in nature.)
Linguistics
- Typological Studies of Information Structures and Linguistic Forms in Africa
- Studies on Event Integration Patterns in African Languages
- A Crosslinguistic Study of Nominalizer-final Constructions: The ‘Cogitation Process’ Approach
- Cross-linguistic Research on “Verbals”
- Cross-linguistic Perspective on the Information Structure of the Austronesian Languages
- Investigation into the Possibilities and Implications of a Usage-based Approach to Grammar
Anthropology
- Studies on ‘Chinese’ as Multiple Imaginations and Dynamic Realities
- The Modes of Articulation of Local Societies to Contemporary Science as Ways of Thought and Practice
- Regional Ethnography and Anthropological Spatial Conceptualization: Inquiry of Methodological Potential
- Human Society in Evolutionary Perspectives (3)
History/Area Studies
- What It Means to Write on Wood: A New Boundary-crossing Approach on Ancient Chinese Slip and Tablet Documents
- The Formation of Cultural Areas in East and Southeast Asia: the Tay Cultural Area and Others
- Citizenship for Migrants and Refugees: Comparative Study of Institution and Practices about Inclusion and Exclusion from Nation-States
- How to Write African History ― New Perspectives and Methods
- Early Modern Islamic States and Plural Societies
- Multi-disciplinary Study on Islam and Cultural Diversity in Southeast Asia
- Study of Nationhood in Contemporary Africa: New Media, Globalization, and Democracy
- Reconsidering Intermediate Social Groups in Premodern South Asia
- Transformation of Religions as Reflected in Javanese Texts
- Study on the Relationship between Agriculture and Culture in Sub-Saharan Africa from Historical Perspectives (2)
- Economic Activities and Behaviors Based on Islam
- Human Mobility and Multi-ethnic Coexistence in Middle Eastern Urban Societies (the second term)
The Past Projects
- Towards a Multi-disciplinary Approach for Developing and Harmonizing Field Methods in Anthropology and Development Studies
- New Trends in the Studies on Qidan Scripts
- Historical Study of Normative Glyphs of Chinese Characters (2nd stage)
- Anthropology of Trans-area Migration in East/Southeast Asia: Culture, Ethnicity and Identity Within Cross-marriage/Cross-divorce Network
- Human Mobility and Multi-ethnic Coexistence in Middle Eastern Urban Societies
- ‘Single’ and Family: The Anthropological Study of ‘Enishi (karmic/relation/connection)’
- Descriptive Studies of Indonesian Languages; Their Variety and Similarities
- Study on the Relationship between Agriculture and Culture in Sub-Saharan Africa from Historical Perspectives
- Comparative Study on the Languages of the North from Typological Perspective
- Cross-Linguistic Studies on Clause Combining
- A Study of Variability in Deictic Expressions
- Human Society in Evolutionary Perspectives—Stage 2: “Institution”
- Indonesian Manuscript Project
- Construction of Shared Research Resources for Korean Historical Linguistics
- Missionary Linguistics (2nd stage)
- Reconstructing Grammatical Phenomena from the Viewpoint of Tibeto-Burman Languages - Stage 2 : Characterization and Classification of Sentences
- Anthropological Study of Globalizations in Asia and Africa
- Comparative Study of Multilingualism
- History of Hill Peoples in the Tay Cultural Area
- Social Change and International Relations in Modern East Asia
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