ILCAA Joint Research Project

Ethnolinguistic Lexical Documentation of the Southwestern Kalahari Khoe Languages (jrp000220)

Keywords

• color
• ethnobiology
• kinship
• lexicography
• semantic field
• semantic typology

Areas

• Republic of Botswana

Website

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About the Project

Project term: April, 2016–March, 2019

Recent Khoisan linguistic studies have revealed that the lexicons of Southwestern Kalahari Khoe languages have a number of typologically unique or rare features in certain semantic domains, e.g., perception verbs and kinship terms (Nakagawa 2012, Ono 2011). Our ongoing field research is further discovering cross-linguistically uncommon features in other domains, such as folk taxonomy, eat-verbs, and temperature words. This project will provide Khoisan researchers of different scientific backgrounds (anthropology, linguistics, psychology, and zoology) with a platform for collaboration on new lexical documentation, which integrates up-to-date findings reported and discussed separately in different contexts.

Nakagawa, H. (2012) The importance of TASTE verbs in some Khoe languages, Linguistics, 50(2): 395-420. Ono, H. (2011) Two types of kinship categorization in Khoe. In Konig, C., Hieda, O., and Nakagawa, H. (eds.) Geographical Typology and Linguistic Areas, pp. 269-278. John Benjamin.

Members

Coordinator

• Hirosi NAKAGAWA (Tokyo University of Foreign Studies)

ILCAA Staff

• Toshihide NAKAYAMA

Joint Researchers

• Junko MARUYAMA
• Hirosi NAKAGAWA
• Christfried NAUMANN
• Hitomi ONO
• Kazuyoshi SUGAWARA
• Akira TAKADA
• Jiro TANAKA

Outputs

Meetings

The 5th meeting

• Date/Time：Sat 26 Jan 2019 13:00–19:30
• Venue: Phonetics Laboratory (414), Tokyo University of Foreign Studies
• Presentation and Discussion

• Hirosi NAKAGAWA (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies)

  “Animals in G|ui poems and songs”

  Commentator: Yuji MATSUHIRA (University of Hyogo)

  All members

  Workshop on the orthography of G|ui

  Facilitator: Hirosi Nakagawa (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies)

The 4th meeting

• Date/Time: Sun 11 Nov 2018 12:00–20:00
• Venue: Phonetics Laboratory(414), Tokyo University of Foreign Studies
• Briefings and discussions on the research progresses

• Hirosi NAKAGAWA (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies)

  A sound symbolic device involved in the food-texture verbs in G|ui

  Yuji MATSUHIRA (University of Hyogo)

  “Mbira (“thumb-piano” of Shona): its musical and ritual features”

  Questions and answers

  Rescheduling of the “Kalahari Animal Encyclopedia” compilation

The 3rd meeting

• Date/Time: Sun 27 May 2018 12:45–14:00
• Venue: Hokudai Marche Cafe & Labo
• Briefings and discussions on the research progresses

• Akira TAKADA (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Kyoto University)

  Report on the utilization of “DiPLAS”

  Hirosi NAKAGAWA (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies)

  Report on the submission of the research report to Botswana

  Hirosi NAKAGAWA (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies)

  Report on the progress in the newly submitted research permission to Botswana

  All members

  Information exchange on the status of application/acceptance of the Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (KAKENHI)

  All members

  Discussion on the editorial activities of “Bushnman Animal Encyclopedia”

The 2nd meeting ：Report (Japanese)(70KB)

• Date/Time: Fri 10 Nov 2017 9:30–20:00
• Venue: Sendagaya campus SA120, Tsuda University
• Organized by Core Project “Linguistic Dynamics Science3” (LingDy3)

• All members

  Workshop 1: G|ui grammar and lexicon

  All members

  Workshop 2: Editorial activities of G|ui ethnozoology

  Animal category

  Animal anatomy and physiology

  Material culture relating to hunting

The 1st meeting

• Date/Time: Sat 21 May 2016 12:30–18:30
• Venue: Hongo Satellite 8F

• Hirosi NAKAGAWA (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies)

  Introduction: Project Proposal

• Presentation 1

• Hirosi NAKAGAWA (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies)

  “Basic color terms in SWKK”

  Jiro TANAKA (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Kyoto University), Kazuyoshi SUGAWARA (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Kyoto University) and Hirosi NAKAGAWA (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies)

  “Animal categories in SWKK”

  Hitomi ONO (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Reitaku University)

  “Kinship terms in SWKK”

• Presentation 2

• Yuriko SUGIYAMA (Kyoto University)

  “Bushman funeral: preliminary report”

  Keitarou SEKIGUCHI (Kyoto University)

  “A first report on Kagcae community”

• All members

  Discussion: Fauna and flora in SWKK

  All members

  Business meeting

Related events

SWKK Meeting (ad hoc Meeting 2) ：Report (Japanese)(48KB)

• Date/Time: Sat 15 Jul 2017 17:30–19:30
• Venue: Room 413, TUFS

• All members

  Conservation and listing of hunting tools (ǀGui and ǁGana)

  All members

  Mobile-phone and orthography

SWKK Meeting (ad hoc Meeting 1) ：Report (Japanese)(75KB)

• Date/Time: Sat 20 May 2017 12:00–14:00
• Venue: Nagano-Education Campus, M Building 2nd Floor Meeting room 1, Shinsyu Univ

• Hirosi NAKAGAWA (Tokyo University of Foreign Studies)

  Announcement 1: Photo exhibition ‘Central Kalahari Hunter-Gatherers in 1960s and 1970s’ and the talk event

  Hirosi NAKAGAWA (Tokyo University of Foreign Studies), Akira TAKADA (Kyoto University), Hitomi ONO (Reitaku University)

  Announcement 2: The cover story of Field Plus, no. 18

• Reports:

• All members

  Field work schedule in 2017

  Hirosi NAKAGAWA (Tokyo University of Foreign Studies)

  Progress of the lexicography

  Hirosi NAKAGAWA (Tokyo University of Foreign Studies)

  Progress of Encyclopaedia of the ǀGui and ǁGana Culture and Society (EGG)

  Junko MARUYAMA (Tsuda University)

  Reconnaissance vehicle

  Akira TAKADA (Kyoto University)

  Adjunct Researcher in ASAFAS

  Sho FUJITA (Kyoto University, ASAFA), Erika MIYAKE (Kyoto University, ASAFA)

  Introduction of new members

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