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

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

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.

Norikazu KOGURA, Project Coordinator
(Associate Professor, ILCAA)

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 1st meeting

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