ILCAA Joint Research Project

Typological Study on “Altaic-type” Languages (2)

Keywords

• “Altaic type” Languages
• Linguistic typology
• insubordination
• finiteness

Areas

• Central Asia
• Inner Asia
• North-east Asia (including Japan)
• South America

Website

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About the Project

Project term: April, 2019–March, 2022

The present project explores some issues related to the hierarchy of sentences and clauses, which is proved to be a characteristic of “Altaic-type” languages as a result of the previous phase of the project (ILCAA joint research project titled “Typological Study on ‘Altaic-type’ Languages”). The research aims to reveal the typological characteristics of “Altaic-type” languages. The main topics of the project are as follows: (i) typology on the construction of the predicates of the sentence: insubordination out of nominal clauses and the issue of finiteness; (ii) management of a subject according to different levels of clause hierarchy; (iii) management of tense according to different levels of clause hierarchy; and (iv) semantics and syntax of nominal phrases according to different levels of clause hierarchy.

Members

Coordinator

• Norikazu KOGURA (ILCAA)

ILCAA Staff

• Tokusu KUREBITO
• Honoré WATANABE
• Yasuhiro YAMAKOSHI

Joint Researchers

• Reiko ASO
• Sangyub BAEK
• Heekyung CHAE
• Fuyuki EBATA
• Daisuke EBINA
• Suzushi HAYATA
• Hiromi KAJI
• Shinjiro KAZAMA
• Norifumi KUROSHIMA
• Linjing LI
• Ryo MATSUMOTO
• Yuko OSANAI
• Michinori SHIMOJI
• Hiroyuki UMETANI
• Haibo Wang
• Taiki YOSHIMURA
• Noboru YOSHIOKA

Outputs

Meetings

The 5th meeting

• Date/Time: Tue 2 Mar 2021 13:30–17:30
• Venue: Online meeting
• Language: Japanese
• Organized by Core Project “Linguistic Dynamics Science3 (LingDy3)”

• 1. Norikazu KOGURA (ILCAA)

  “On person marking and definiteness in Sibe: the function of possesive marking =ni in discourse”

  2. Linjing LI (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Seikei University)

  “On personal affixes of finite verb and participle in Hezhen”

  3. Ryo MATSUMOTO (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Kansai University of International Studies)

  “On person marking and definiteness in Evenki”

  4. Sangyub BAEK (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Muroran Institute of Technology)

  “Different-subject sentences with the use of same-subject converbal endings in Tungusic”

The 4th meeting

• Date/Time: Sat 14 Nov 2020 14:00–17:30
• Venue: Online meeting
• Language: Japanese
• Organized by Core Project “Linguistic Dynamics Science3 (LingDy3)”

• 1. Hiroyuki UMETANI (ILCAA Joint Researcher, The University of Tokyo)

  “Characteristics of the elements that can be classified as clitics in Mongolian”

  2. Shinjiro KAZAMA (ILCAA Joint Researcher, TUFS)

  “TBA”

  3. Shinjiro KAZAMA (ILCAA Joint Researcher, TUFS)

  “TBA”

The 3rd meeting ：Report (Japanese)(636KB)

• Date/Time: Sat 4 Jul 2020 14:00–17:30
• Venue: Online meeting via Zoom
• Language: Japanese
• Organized by Core Project “Linguistic Dynamics Science3 (LingDy3)”

• 14:00–15:30 Norifumi KUROSHIMA (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Kumamoto Gakuen University)

  “Temporal Converbs with Focus Particles in Korean: Focusing on Conditionals”

  15:40–17:10 Daisuke EBINA (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Kansai University of International Studies)

  “Nominal Classifiers in Kamsá”

  17:10–17:30 All participants

  Discussion on the planning of the project

The 2nd meeting ：Report (Japanese)(242KB)

• Date/Time: Sun 29 Mar 2020 13:00–17:00
• Venue: Online meeting via Zoom
• Language: Japanese
• Organized by Core Project “Linguistic Dynamics Science3” (LingDy3)

• 1. Suzushi HAYATA (ILCAA Research Associate)

  “Imperative forms of gaji- 'to bring' in Classical Manchu: A preliminary study”

  2. Michinori SHIMOJI (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Kyushu University)

  “Case marking and information structure in Japanese and Ryukyuan”

  3. All Participants

  General Discussion

The 1st meeting ：Report (Japanese)(236KB)

• Date/Time: Sat 13 Jul 2019 13:00-17:00
• Venue: 304
• Language: Japanese

• 13:00–13:45 Norikazu KOGURA (ILCAA)

  “Introduction”

  14:00–15:30 Shinjiro KAZAMA (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies)

  “Are they the Altaic-type features or genetic ones or areal ones?: evidentiality, person, and negation of Altaic-type languages”

  15:45–17:00 Discussion on the planning of the project

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