ILCAA Joint Research Project

Constructing a research network for documenting minority languages in and around Indonesia (jrp000201)

About the Project

Project term: April, 2014–March, 2017

The area in and around Indonesia is known is linguistic and cultural variety. But many regional languages spoken there are drastically decreasing the number of their speakers because of the language shift to the national language or a more dominant regional language. It is urgent necessary to document such languages to preserve the linguistic data that is precious both to the linguists and the language community. This project is to construct a network between the speakers of the said languages, domestic researchers, and foreign researchers and conduct substantial documentation of the languages. Holding the seminars on language documentation at the domestic research institute and collaborative work on collecting, editing, storing, and publishing the language data with the language speakers will be planned.

Members

Coordinator

• Asako SHIOHARA (ILCAA)

ILCAA Staff

• Honoré WATANABE

Joint Researchers

• Yuko ABE
• Kazuya INAGAKI
• Iku NAGASAKI
• Naonori NAGAYA
• Yoshimi MIYAKE
• Alexander Adelaar
• Anthony Jukes
• Antoinette Schapper
• Antonia Soriente
• Frantisek Kratochvil
• Hendrik Paat
• I Wayan Arka
• John Bowden
• Katubi
• Ketut Artawa
• Rik de Busser
• Sonja Riesberg
• Yanti

Outputs

Meetings

The 9th meeting ：Report (Japanese)(81KB)

• International workshop for Documenting endangered languages in the Nusa Tenggara Timur Province in Indonesia
• Date/Time: 24 March 2017 (Fri.) 14:00–16:00，25 March 2017 (Sat.) – 30 March 2017 (Thu.) 10:00–17:00（27 March open meeting）
• Venue: Room 306, ILCAA
• Language: English
• Jointly sponsored by Linguistic Dynamics Science 3 (LingDy3) and ILCAA Joint Research Project “Constructing a research network for documenting minority languages in and around Indonesia”
• Overview:

  The aim of this workshop is to conduct a substantial documentation of two seriously endangered languages of the Nusa Tenggara Timur Province in Indonesia, namely, Teiwa and Nedebang. The member of the ILCAA Joint research project “Constructing a research network for documenting minority languages in and around Indonesia” will work together with Antoinette Schapper, a pecialist of the languages in this region and the native speakers invited from the two language communities.

• Coordinators:

  Asako SHIOHARA (ILCAA)

  Antoinette Schapper (ILCAA Joint Researcher, KITLV)

  Yanti (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Atma Jaya Catholic University of Indonesia)

  Native speaker Participants:

  Amos Rehabeam Sir (UBB GMIT Kupang)

  Semram Serang (Education and Culture Service of Sub Region of Pantar)

  Dominikus Tauk (Udayana University)

  Jermy Imanuel Balukh (STIBA Cakrawala Nusantara Kupang)

  Elsijon Marjesi Thine (Smpn Satu Atap Batulai, Rote)

  Anderias Susang

• Program on 27 March:

• Antoinette Schapper (ILCAA Joint Researcher, KITLV)

  “History of a macro-linguistic area through lexico-semantics: The case of　Southeast Asia”

  Amos Rehabeam Sir (UBB GMIT Kupang)

  “Languages in Alor”

  I Wayan Arka (ILCAA Joint Researcher, ILCAA Visiting Associate Professor,　Australian National University)

  “Plurality and comitatives in Indonesian languages”

  Yanti (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Atma Jaya Catholic University of Indonesia),　Dominikus Tauk (Udayana University), and Asako SHIOHARA (ILCAA)

  “Metathesis and Truncation in Helong: A Preliminary Study”

  Jermy Imanuel Balukh (STIBA Cakrawala Nusantara Kupang), and Elsijon Marjesi Thine (Smpn Satu Atap Batulai, Rote)

  “An overview of Rote language”

• The workshop is closed except on 27th
  Please contact asako[at]tufs.ac.jp (Please change [at] to ＠.).

The 8th meeting ：Report (Japanese)(80KB)

• International Symposium on Language Documentation and Corpus Linguistic
• Date/Time: 10 March 2017 (Fri.) 13:00–17:20
• Venue: Room 304, ILCAA
• Language: English
• Jointly sponsored by Linguistic Dynamics Science 3 (LingDy3) and JSPS Program for Advancing Strategic International Networks to Accelerate the Circulation of Talented Researchers, “A collaborative network for usage-based research on lesser-studied languages”

• Asako SHIOHARA (ILCAA)

  Opening

  Nicholas Evans (Australian National University)

  Plenary talk: “Do grammars do best what speakers did most: the Social Cognition Parallel Interview Corpus (SCOPIC) cross-linguistic corpus on social cognition in grammar”

  Stefan Schnell (University of Melbourne)

  “Conditions on object agreement and pronominalisation – a corpus-based typological study”

  Sonja Riesberg (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Australian National University, University of Cologne）

  “Cross-corpus annotation - a report from the ongoing Three Participant-Project”

  I Wayan Arka (ILCAA Joint Researcher, ILCAA Visiting Associate Professor, Australian National University)

  “On the pedagogical literacy for local (endangered) languages: lessons learned from Indonesia”

  All members

  Discussion & Closing

• Please refer to the following webpage for details.

The 7th meeting ：Report (Japanese)(66KB)

• Date/Time: 18 February 2017 (Sat.) 10:30–17:30
• Venue: Room 405, ILCAA
• Organized by Linguistic Dynamics Science 3 (LingDy3)

• Asako SHIOHARA (ILCAA)

  Reporting the progress of language archive that each participant establishes Archive linguistic data to PARADISEC

  All members

  Wrapping up the whole project

  All members

  Working on data that each researcher has

  All members

  Business Meeting

The 6th meeting ：Report (Japanese)(80KB)

• Date/Time: 19 March 2016 (Sat.) 10:00‐17:30
• Venue: Room 306, ILCAA
• Language: English

• John Bowden (ILCAA Joint Researcher, ILCAA Visiting Professor)

  “The Directional System of North Maluku Malay“

  Anthony Jukes (ILCAA Joint Researcher, ILCAA Visiting Associate Professor)

  “Linguistic Enfranchisement”

  All members

  Business Meeting Topics:
  Plannning for language documentation workshops in Indonesia in 2016
  Reporting and sharing information on language documentation that each member is conducting

  All members

  Work:
  Creating a webpage to publish linguistic data that each member obtains

The 5th meeting ：Report (Japanese)(72KB)

• Date/Time: 15 February 2016 (Mon.) 14:00-17:00
• Venue: Room 306, ILCAA
• Language: English

• Yanti (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Atma Jaya Catholic University of Indonesia)

  “Phonological Structure of Jambi Malay”

  Dominikus Tauk (Udayana University)

  “Language documentation of Helong language, Timor, Indonesia”

The 4th meeting ：Report (Japanese)(84KB)

• Date/Time: 23 January 2016 (Sat.) 10:00‐17:30
• Venue: Room 306, ILCAA
• Language: English

• Yuko ABE (ILCAA Joint Researcher, ILCAA Research Associate)

  “Returning research results to the language community: a case study of creating a textbook for learning the Bende language, Tanzania”

  All members

  Business Meeting Topics:

  Plannning for language documentation workshops in Indonesia in 2016

  Reporting and sharing information on language documentation that each member is conducting

  All members

  Work:

  Creating a webpage to publish linguistic data that each member obtains

The 3rd meeting ：Report (Japanese)(163KB)

• Date/Time: 17 March 2015 (Tue.) 9:30-17:30
• Venue: Room 306, ILCAA
• Language: Japanese and English

• All members

  Business Meeting

  Yukinori KIMOTO (Kyoto University)

  “Development of the phonological system in Arta”

  Alexander ADELAAR (ILCAA Visiting Professor)

  “Problems and politics surrounding the use of Siraya in the Tainan area”

  Naonori NAGAYA (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies)

  “Documenting Lamaholot”

  All members

  Business Meeting

  Topics:

  Plannning for language documentation workshops in 2015

  Reporting and sharing information on language documentation that each member is conducting

  Putting metadata and annotating to linguistic data that each member obtains

The 2nd meeting ：Report (Japanese)(86KB)

• Date/Time: 24 February 2015 (Tue.) 9:30-17:30, 25 February 2015 (Wed.) 9:30-17:30
• Venue: Room 306, ILCAA
• 24 February

• All members

  Business Meeting

  All members

  Opening

  Deisyi Batunan (Manado State University)

  “Traditional ceremonies in Talaud”

  Imelda (Indonesian Institute of Sciences (LIPI))

  “Gamkonora Language project”

  All members

  Business Meeting

• 25 February

• Katubi (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Indonesian Institute of Sciences (LIPI))

  “The Ethnography and Documentation of Kui as Endangered Language in Alor Island, Indonesia.“

  Fanny Henry Tondo (Indonesian Institute of Sciences (LIPI))

  “Kao Minor Language in the Northern Coast of Halmahera, Eastern Indonesia”

  Antonio Soares (Udayana State University)

  “The basic structure of Makasae language in Typological prescriptive.”

  All members

  Business meeting

The 1st meeting ：Report (Japanese)(79KB)

• Date/Time: 23 December 2014 (Tue.) 10:00-17:30
• Venue: Room 306, ILCAA

• All members

  Business Meeting

  Topics:

  Plannning for language documentation workshops in 2015

  Plannning for archiving and publication of linguistic data that each member obtains

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