ILCAA Joint Research Project

Morphology and syntax of Narrative (jrp000276)

About the Project

Project term: April, 2022–March, 2025

This study will explore the morphosyntactic characteristics of “narratives” observed in various languages, including minority languages in Asia and Africa, as well as languages with many speakers such as Japanese and German. A narrative is a genre of utterance that can be defined as a “chronologically-arranged event situated in a place spatiotemporally distant from the utterance situation.” In addition to ‘Parallax’ corpora based on the data elicited through a common task, this project will also analyze natural utterances. Our aim is first to identify the morphosyntactic characteristics specific to narratives in individual languages and then attempt to generalize the characteristics cross-linguistically. This study also will explore better standards for developing text corpora.

Members

Coordinator

• Asako SHIOHARA

ILCAA Staff

• Norikazu KOGURA
• Keita KURABE
• Honoré WATANABE

Joint Researchers

• Danielle BARTH
• Tomoko ENDO
• Nicholas EVANS
• Kazuya INAGAKI
• Yukinori KIMOTO
• Taku KUMAKIRI
• Natsuko NAKAGAWA
• Takashi NARITA
• Hiroki NOMOTO
• Hitomi ONO
• Stefan SCHNELL

Outputs

Meetings

The 7th meeting

• Date/Time: Wed 26 Mar 2025 14:00–17:00
• Venue: Online meeting

• 14:00–15:00 Honoré WATANABE (ILCAA)

  “Voice alternations in Sliammon narrative”

  15:00–16:00 Hitomi ONO (Reitaku University, ILCAA Joint Researcher)

  “Morpho-syntactic representation of narrative texts in G|ui”

  16:00–17:00

  Project Overview

The 6th meeting

• Date/Time: Sun 22 Dec 2024 13:30–16:30
• Venue: 301, Online meeting

• 13:30–13:40

  Opening

  13:40–14:40 Setsu NARITA (Professor Emeritus, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies)

  “How Do Passive Sentences in German Represent Events? — A Corpus-Based Analysis”

  14:40–15:40 Taku KUMAKIRI (Graduate School of Humanities and Sociology, The University of Tokyo)

  “The Function of Concluding Sentences in Stories in the Tunisian Arabic Dialect”

  15:40–16:30

  Planning for the Next Research Meeting

The 5th meeting

• Date/Time: Sun 21 Jan 2024 10:00–16:00
• Venue: 301

• Program

  10:00–12:00

  1. Discussion on the utilization of the SCOPIC corpus

  13:00–14:00

  2. Natsuko NAKAGAWA (NINJAL, ILCAA Joint-researcher) “Typology of case marking in Japonic Languages: Affects of topic and focus marking”

  14:00–15:00

  3. Asako SHIOHARA (ILCAA) “Basic story structure: Summary of Cpt2 of Toolan 1988”

  15:00–16:00 Discussion

International workshop on SCOPIC; The 4th meeting

• Date/Time: Mon 18 Sep 2023– Fri 22 Sep 2023 10:00–16:00
• Venue: 303

• For details, please see here.

The 3rd meeting ：Report (Japanese)

• Date/Time: Sun 12 Feb 2023 13:30–16:30
• Venue: Online meeting

• 13:30–14:30 Asako SHIOHARA (ILCAA)

  “What is narrative?: Summary of Toolan 1988”

  14:40–16:00 Tomoko ENDO (The University of Tokyo)

  “Laughter and quotation of thought in Japanese conversational storytelling”

The 2nd meeting ：Report (Japanese)

• Date/Time: Sun 25 Sep 2022 13:30–16:30
• Venue: Online meeting

• 13:30-14:30 Asako SHIOHARA (ILCAA)

  “Overview of the SCOPIC Project”

  14:30-15:30 Yukinori KIMOTO (ILCAA Joint Researcher, University of Hyogo)

  “Social cognition and syntactic embedding: Corpus-based typology of complementation and their alternatives”

  15:30-16:30 All participants

  Discussion on future activities

The 1st meeting ：Report (Japanese)

• Date/Time: Sun 29 May 2022 13:00–16:00
• Venue: Online meeting

• 1. Self-introduction of participants

  2. Taku KUMAKIRI (University of Tokyo)
  　“Narrative Structure and Word Order of Verbal Sentences in Tunis Arabic”

  3. Discussion on the scope of this project

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