ILCAA Joint Research Project

Information Structure and the Grammar of Knowledge in Turkic Languages: Interface of Phonology, Morphosyntax and Semantics

Keywords

• Turkic languages
• information structure
• knowledge management

Areas

• East Asia
• Central Asia
• West Asia
• Northeast Asia

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About the Project

Project term: April, 2020–March, 2023

This project conducts in-depth descriptive studies of individual Turkic languages by investigating the phonological and morpho-syntactic marking of information structures and knowledge management and exploring the theoretical generalizations that have been made about the interfaces between phonology, morpho-syntax, and semantics. The main focus of this project is related to the linguistic phenomena regarding sentence foci in different sentence types, such as intonation, cliticization, and word order, with the aim of contributing to the development of theoretical research by providing a new perspective on descriptive Turkic grammar studies.

Members

Coordinator

• Kumiko SATO (NINJAL)

ILCAA Staff

• Norikazu KOGURA

Joint Researchers

• Kazuki AOYAMA
• Fuyuki EBATA
• Tooru HAYASI
• Shinsuke HIDAKA
• Yuto HISHIYAMA
• Akmatalieva JAKSHYLYK
• Tomoyuki KUBO
• Yu KURIBAYASHI
• Shiho NITTA
• Noriko OHSAKI
• Masahiro OKU
• Aydın ÖZBEK
• Kumiko SATO
• Kentaro SUGANUMA
• Mutsumi SUGAHARA
• Arzhaana SYURYUN
• Ayşe Nur TEKMEN
• Hideki TSUKAMOTO
• Taiki YOSHIMURA

Outputs

Meetings

The 6th meeting

• Date/Time: Sat 11 Dec 2021 13:00–16:00
• Venue: Online meeting
• Language: Japanese

• 13:00-14:00 Yuto HISHIYAMA (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Graduate School of Global Studies, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies)

  “On the focus construction of Tatar”

  14:10-15:10 Kentaro SUGANUMA (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Kanazawa University)

  “A preliminary study on wa in Karachay-Balkar”

  15:20-16:00 All members

  General discussion and business meeting

The 5th meeting

• Date/Time: Sat 24 Jul 2021 14:00–17:00
• Venue: Online meeting
• Language: Japanese
• Jointly Sponsored by Core Project “Linguistic Dynamics Science 3 (LingDy3)”, Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (A) “Environments and linguistic change in the Altaic languages” (Principal Investigator: Tomoyuki KUBO (Kyushu University) Research Project Number: 18H03578)

• 14:00–14:30 All members

  Discussion on project planning

  14:40–15:40 Fuyuki EBATA (ILCAA joint researcher, Niigata University)

  “Wh-question, evidentiality, and egophoricity in Sakha and Tyvan”

  15:50–16:50 Noriko OHSAKI (ILCAA joint researcher, Kyoto University)

  “The third person possessive suffix in adverbial phrases in Kyrgyz from the perspective of specificity and definiteness”

The 4th meeting

• Date/Time: Sat 6 Mar 2021 15:00–17:30
• Venue: Online meeting
• Language: Japanese
• Jointly Sponsored by Core Project “Linguistic Dynamics Science 3 (LingDy3)”, Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (A) “Environments and linguistic change in the Altaic languages” (Principal Investigator: Tomoyuki KUBO (Kyushu University) Research Project Number: 18H03578)

• 1. Yu KURIBAYASHI (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Okayama University)

  “A quantitative comparison of ol-/bol- auxiliary verb in Turkic ーFrom texts translated into Turkish, Azeri, and Uzbekー”

  2. All participants

  Discussion on project planning

The 3rd meeting

• Date/Time: Sat 10 Oct 2020 15:00–17:30
• Venue: Online meeting
• For information, please contact Norikazu KOGURA: koguran[at]aa.tufs.ac.jp (please change [at] to @)
• Organized by Core Project “Linguistic Dynamics Science 3 (LingDy3)”

• 1. Shinsuke HIDAKA (ILCAA Joint Researcher)

  “Roundtable: Information Structure in Uzbek”

  2. Yuto HISHIYAMA (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Graduate School of Global Studies, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies)

  “Roundtable: On the Chuvash clitic =Ax from an information structure perspective”

  3. Norikazu KOGURA (ILCAA)

  “Roundtable: Interrogative sentences in Sibe”

  4. All participants

  General Discussion

The 2nd meeting ：Report (Japanese)(236KB)

• Date/Time: Sun 14 Jun 2020 14:00–17:00
• Venue: Online meeting via Zoom
• Organized by Core Project “Linguistic Dynamics Science 3 (LingDy3)”

• 1. Kumiko SATO (ILCAA Joint Researcher, National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics), Norikazu KOGURA (ILCAA)

  Project orientation

  2. All members

  Discussion on the project activity planning

The 1st meeting ：Report (Japanese)(257KB)

• Date/Time: Sun 7 Jun 2020 14:00–17:00
• Venue: Online meeting via Zoom
• Organized by Core Project “Linguistic Dynamics Science 3 (LingDy3)”

• 1. Taiki YOSHIMURA (ILCAA Research Fellow)

  “Is the clitic mI in Turkish really the ‘question' marker?”

  2. Masahiro OKU (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Graduate School of Global Studies, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies)

  “A Preliminary Consideration of reflexive form in Turkmen”

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