Exploration into the Mechanism of Language Change and Variation through the Dialogue between Theoretical Linguistics, Linguistic Typology, and Quantitative Linguistics (jrp000271)
  The structure of a language can undergo phonological, morphological, semantic, and syntactic changes. The micro-changes present within these larger changes are triggered by economic efficiency, innovation, linguistic contact, and additional factors. Over hundreds of years, these pressures can produce dramatic changes in a language. Intrinsically, a word’s phonological, morphological, semantic, and syntactic structures differ in their level of susceptibility to change; however, they interact with each other over long periods of time, which can cause a language to change at different speeds and to varying degrees. Therefore, this project systematically investigate the mechanisms that facilitate linguistic change and discusses how best to typologically classify languages in relation to language contact and change by collecting knowledge and data from researchers that specialize in various fields of linguistics, including theoretical linguistics (in particular: syntax, phonology, and semantics), linguistic typology, social linguistics, and historical linguistics.
Jointly Sponsored by ILCAA, Language Change and Language Variation Research Unit, GSIS, Tohoku University
The former session: 13:00–15:00
In the former session, Prashant PARDESHI, an invited speaker from National Institute of Japanese Language and Linguistics is going to deliver his own presentation, under the following title:The World Atlas of Transitivity Pairs (WATP): What it reveals about the typology of transnitity pairs?. The speakers will talk within 90 minutes, followed by a Q&A session for 30 minutes.
The latter session: 15:10–17:30 *The participants of this session are limited to the members.
In the latter session, the following two pairs of speakers will give their 40 minute talks, followed by 30 minutes discussion:
Hiroshi AOYAGI (Nanzan University)
“Some Notes on Morphosyntax and Grammaticalization in Japanese and Korean”
Yupeng YUE, Yoshiki OGAWA (Tohoku University)
“A preliminary study on the structural borrowing, (the loosening of) lexical strata, and constructionalization: with special reference to causative-inchoative alternation and the nominalizating suffix -sa in Japanese.”
Date/Time: Sun 19 Mar 2023 13:30–18:40 - Mon 20 Mar 2023 10:00–14:45
Venue: 304, Online meeting
Language: Japanese
Jointly Sponsored by ILCAA, Linguistic Change and Variation Research Unit, GSIS, Tohoku University
Eight members in this project and an invited speaker (Yoshio Endo; Kanda University of Foreign Languages) are going to make their own presentations. The speakers among members will talk within 35 minutes, followed by respective Q&A sessions for 15 minutes.The invited speaker will talk for 90 minutes, including the Q&A session.
Organized by The Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies (TUFS)
Under the topic of “optionality in language and language change” four members in this project are going to make their own presentation within 35 minutes, followed by respective Q&A sessions for 15 minutes. Thereafter, we will make a free discussion about the issue for abut 50 minutes.
Organized by The Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies (TUFS)
Under the topic of “language change/variation and language acquisition,” four members in this project are going to make their own presentation within 30 minutes, followed by respective Q&A sessions for 15 minutes. Thereafter, we will make a free discussion about the issue for abut 60 minutes.
13:30–14:00 Yosuke SATO (Tsuda University)
Input Indeterminacy and Syntactic Vulnerability: Interspeaker Variation in Transitive Subject Control Promise
Under the topic of “grammaticalization,” three members in this project are going to make their own presentation within 35 minutes, followed by respective Q&A sessions for 25 to 40 minutes.
14:00–14:35 Yosuke SATO (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Tsuda University)
“Neg Raising, Short-Circuited Implicature and Usage vs. Grammar: A Bridge Still That Far?”
14:35–15:00
Q&A
15:05–15:40 Toshihide NAKAYAMA (ILCAA)
“Expansion of a grammatical system: What development of a construction with and 'unacceptable' structure can tell us”
15:40–16:25
Q&A
16:30–17:05 So MIYAGAWA (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Kyoto University)
“Grammaticalization from “Say” verb to polysemous conjunction in Egyptian-Coptic”
Under the topic of “theories of catergories,” three members in this project are going to make their own presentation within 35 minutes, followed by respective Q&A sessions for 30 minutes.
Jointly sponsored by Linguistic Change and Variation Research Unit, GSIS, Tohoku University, Core Project “Linguistic Dynamics Science3 (LingDy3)”
This event is cosponsored by the Linguistic Change and Variation Research Unit, based in Graduate School of Information Sciences, Tohoku University. We will hold a two-day workshop in which 10 members of the colaborative project “Exploration into the Mechanism of Language Change and Variation through the Dialogue between Theoretical Linguistics, Linguistic Typology, and Quantitative Linguistics”will make their presentations. The meeting will be open for general audience, with the expectation of participation of a large number of audience from multiple fields and active discussion between them and the speakers.
Jointly sponsored by Linguistic Change and Variation Research Unit, GSIS, Tohoku University, Core Project “Linguistic Dynamics Science3 (LingDy3)”
Five speakers among the members will deliver a talk about the definition of “words” and analyses of “compounds” in the field they each belong, followed by intensive discussions.
Jointly sponsored by Linguistic Change and Variation Research Unit, GSIS, Tohoku University, Core Project “Linguistic Dynamics Science3 (LingDy3)”
Two talks were delivered by the project members, followed by comments by three discussants that had been allotted in advance. Thereafter, we had active discussions on the issue of grammaticalization in general.
Speaker 1: Yosuke SATO (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Tsuda University)
“Crossed-Control in Indonesian: When Passive Morphology Meets Auxiliarization”