ILCAA Joint Research Project

Studies in Afro-Eurasian Geolinguistics (jrp000306)

Keywords

• Geolinguistics
• language contact
• lexical diffusion
• pattern replication
• historical linguistics

Areas

• Europe
• Sub-Saharan Africa
• North Africa
• West Asia
• Central Asia
• Indian Ocean
• South Asia
• Southeast Asia
• East Asia
• North / Northeast Asia
• Oceania Pacific

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About the Project

Project term: April, 2025–March, 2028

This project covers all language families in Asia, Africa, and Europe. Focusing on approximately six types of linguistic features – including lexicon, phonology, lexical categorization, and grammar – it aims to create interpretative maps that visualize the geographical distribution of these features and to elucidate the formation process of distribution through diachronic analyses and typological discussions. We also take into account extralinguistic factors, namely, migrations and interactions of human groups underlying language contact, and we invite specialists in relevant academic fields as needed. This project seeks to clarify the dynamics reflected in the languages from both micro- and macro-level perspectives.

Members

Coordinator

• Satoko SHIRAI

ILCAA Staff

• Keita KURABE (Co-Coordinator)
• Daisuke SHINAGAWA

Joint Researchers

• Sangyub BAEK
• Shiho EBIHARA
• Mika FUKASAWA
• Chitsuko FUKUSHIMA
• Kazue IWASA
• Takamasa IWASAKI
• Nozomi KODAMA
• Ryo MATSUMOTO
• Shuya MATSUOKA
• Shuichiro NAKAO
• Kohei NAKAZAWA
• Chikako ONO
• Takamasa SEIMIYA
• Fumiki SUZUKI
• Hiroyuki SUZUKI
• Aika TOMITA
• Takuya WASHIZAWA
• Yoshiko YAMADA
• Noboru YOSHIOKA

Outputs

Meetings

The 1st meeting ：Report (Japanese)

• Date/Time: Sun 20 Apr 2025 13:00–17:00
• Venue: Online meeting
• Language: Japanese

• 13:00–13:30 Satoko SHIRAI (The University of Tokyo)

  ”The research plan”

  13:30–14:00 Keita KURABE (ILCAA)

  “Typological databases and their relevance to geolinguistics”

  14:00–14:30 Chitsuko FUKUSHIMA (The University of Niigata Prefecture)

  “A geolinguistic study on ‘moon’: with reference to the study on ‘sun’ in LAA”

  14:45–16:00

  Introduction of research target language groups: Including self-introduction and sharing of issues

  16:15–16:40 Hiroyuki SUZUKI

  “Brief introduction to the map (re-)production with some technical issues”

  16:40–17:00

  General discussion: Research methods, technical problems, etc.

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