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Joint Research Projects
ILCAA Joint Research Projects, conducted by the staff members of the Institute and external researchers, constitute the core of research activities at ILCAA as an international research center.
Applications for the Joint Research Projects are publicly invited and are selected by the Advisory Committee for Research Collaboration including external researchers. The Committee annually evaluates projects' activities, their output, publications of the results, and their overall academic significance.
Research results of Joint Research Projects include about 700 publications and on-line dictionaries and databases available for use by any researchers and the general public.
ILCAA joint research projects are classified into the three categories below.
The Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa (ILCAA) is now soliciting proposals for ILCAA Joint Research Projects in which a visiting foreign researcher conducts a joint research project with one or more members of the ILCAA research staff between 2023 and 2024.
The applicant must at first submit the following documents to the co-project ILCAA staff
member. As the ILCAA staff must submit them to the ILCAA Administrative Office by
November 30, 2022 (JST), the applicant should set the submission deadline before the date
in consultation with the staff.
Ongoing Projects in 2022
(Projects are categorized into three discipline-based groups as follows; however, many of them are interdisciplinary in nature.)
Linguistics
Anthropology
History/Area Studies
Upcoming meetings of projects
For information on upcoming meetings of the projects, go to Upcoming Events .
The Past Projects
Rethinking History of Agriculture and Rural Society in Africa (2): From the Viewpoint of Indigenous Agricultural Revolution
Formation of the Indic World: From the Perspective of Frontiers
Historical Narratives and the Utilization of the Past in Modern Central Eurasia
Transformation and Revival of the Legitimacy in Modern Arab Monarchies in Rivalry with Islamism
Transformation of Religions Reflected in Javanese and Other Texts from Southeast Asia: the Roles and Strategies of States in the Process of Islamization
Comparative Ethnographical Study on the Dynamisme of Debt
Typological Study on “Altaic-type” Languages (2)
A Typological Study of the Areal Lexicon of Mainland Southeast Asia
Typological Study of Microvariation in Bantu (2)
Research on Social Cognition Based on SCOPIC: the Social Cognition Parallax Interview Corpus
Ethnographic Studies of Muslim Society in South Asia
Archival Study on Fiscal administration of Holy Shrines in Muslim Societies: The Case of the Safavid Shrine in Iran
Présence Africaine : Text, Thought and Movement
The Origin of Human Sociality: Towards New Perspective on Hominization
Archiving Fieldwork Materials of the Ainu Language: an Interdisciplinary Research
An Inter-disciplinary Approach to the Diversity and Dynamics of Swahili Varieties
Synchrony and Diachrony of Mongolic Languages: Internal and External Factors
Fundamental Study on Ottoman Documents and Archives
The New Boundary-crossing Approach on Ancient Chinese Slip and Tablet Documents (3): Rediscovering the Japanese Tradition of Oriental Studies
Multi-disciplinary Study on Islam and Cultural Diversity in Southeast Asia (The 3rd Term): Dynamics of Conflict and Co-existence
Life as Dynamism: in Search of a Methodological Connection between Affect, Thinking, and Art
Anthropological Study of “Waza”: Technology, Body, Risk/Hazard (Anthropological Study of Things (3))
Exploration into Dynamicity of Grammar (1): Multiplicity and Distributedness in Grammar
Aspects of Agglutination in Turkic Languages: An Integrated Approach of Phonology, Morphosyntax and Semantics
A Research on Varieties of Malayic Languages
Study of Tibetan Pastoral Culture in Qinghai and its Change: Based on the Method of Documentary Linguistics
Construction of Method of Studies on Asian Scripts 1
Study on an Islamic Prayer Book from the Kingdom of Jimma in Ethiopia
Studies on Religious and Politico-Social Minority Groups in Middle Eastern Societies
Culture and Society in Early Modern South Asia: Cross-Linguistic Comparative Studies of Literary and Religious Texts
Economic Activities and Behaviors Based on Islam (The Second Term)
Transformation of Religion as Reflected in Javanese Texts (2): Rethinking the Process of Islamization
Rethinking the History of Agriculture and Rural Societies in Africa: From the Viewpoint of Indigenous Agricultural Revolution
Child Migration in East/Southeast Asia: The Culture and Identity of Children Raised in a Transnational Household
Typological Study of Microvariation in Bantu (Phase 1)
Ethnolinguistic Lexical Documentation of the Southwestern Kalahari Khoe Languages
A Comprehensive Study of Tone/Accent Languages of Africa
Studies on Reference Grammars
New perspectives of Text Studies in Yunnan, China
Human Society in Evolutionary Perspectives (4)
Présence Africaine: Towards New Political and Cultural Perspectives
Studies in Asian Geolinguistics
Semantics of Discourse Particles in East and Southeast Asian Languages
Typological Study on “Altaic-type” Languages.
The Case-marking Systems in Ryukyuan: A Typological Survey
Studies on Mongolic languages in Hexi corridor based on published material
Assessing Micro Level Linkages between Humans, Livestock, and the Environment in Amdo, Tibet: The Outgrowth of the Compilationof an Ethnographic Dictionary of Nomadic Vocabulary
A Study of the Accent and Intonation of Korean Dialects
Constructing a research network for documenting minority languages in and around Indonesia
Anthropological Study of Things(2) (Dynamics of Human/Non-human things)
A Reflection of Anthropological Studies on Population Movements: Focusing on Women Experiences as an Interface and “Diasporic Space” in Southeast Aisan “Chinese Communities.”
The Society in Dunhuang based on the studies of multilingual sources newly discovered
The new boundary-crossing approach on Ancient Chinese Slip and Tablet Documents (2) : Change and Duration in the Qin and Han as seen through a Comparison of Wooden Tablets from the Qin site of Liye and North-west Border Area of Han
Early Modern Islamic States and the Surrounding World
Citizenship and Political Participation: Comparative Study of the Influence of Migrants and Refugees on Community Development and Social Welfare
A Study of Sources for African History
Multi-disciplinary Study on Islam and Cultural Diversity in Southeast Asia (The Second Term)
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)
A Crosslinguistic Study of Nominalizer-final Constructions: The ‘Cogitation Process’ Approach
Cross-linguistic Perspective on the Information Structure of the Austronesian Languages
Investigation into the Possibilities and Implications of a Usage-based Approach to Grammar
Cross-linguistic Research on “Verbals”
Reconsidering Intermediate Social Groups in Premodern South Asia
Human Society in Evolutionary Perspectives (3)
Regional Ethnography and Anthropological Spatial Conceptualization: Inquiry of Methodological Potential
The Modes of Articulation of Local Societies to Contemporary Science as Ways of Thought and Practice
Studies on Event Integration Patterns in African Languages
Study of Nationhood in Contemporary Africa: New Media, Globalization, and Democracy
Multi-disciplinary Study on Islam and Cultural Diversity in Southeast Asia
Early Modern Islamic States and Plural Societies
Typological Studies of Information Structures and Linguistic Forms in Africa
How to Write African History ― New Perspectives and Methods
Citizenship for Migrants and Refugees: Comparative Study of Institution and Practices about Inclusion and Exclusion from Nation-States
The Formation of Cultural Areas in East and Southeast Asia: the Tay Cultural Area and Others
What It Means to Write on Wood: A New Boundary-crossing Approach on Ancient Chinese Slip and Tablet Documents
Studies on ‘Chinese’ as Multiple Imaginations and Dynamic Realities
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