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 2016
(Projects are categorized into three groups, linguistics, anthropology, and history/area studies; however, many of them are interdisciplinary in nature.)
Linguistics
- 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
- 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
- Studies on Reference Grammars
- A Comprehensive Study of Tone/Accent Languages of Africa
- Ethnolinguistic Lexical Documentation of the Southwestern Kalahari Khoe Languages
- Typological Study of Microvariation in Bantu (Phase 1)
Anthropology
- 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.”
- Human Society in Evolutionary Perspectives (4)
- Présence Africaine: Towards New Political and Cultural Perspectives
- Child Migration in East/Southeast Asia: The Culture and Identity of Children Raised in a Transnational Household
History/Area Studies
- 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)
- New perspectives of text studies in Yunnan, China
- Rethinking the History of Agriculture and Rural Societies in Africa: From the Viewpoint of Indigenous Agricultural Revolution
- Transformation of Religion as Reflected in Javanese Texts (2): Rethinking the Process of Islamization
- Economic Activities and Behaviors Based on Islam (The Second Term)
- Culture and Society in Early Modern South Asia: Cross-Linguistic Comparative Studies of Literary and Religious Texts
- Studies on Religious and Politico-Social Minority Groups in Middle Eastern Societies
The Past Projects
- 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
Research Projects and Resources
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