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Grammatical Studies Workshops

This workshop series serves as a forum for academic exchange among junior scholars on topics in descriptive and typological linguistic research. Each workshop or seminar focuses on a particular issue in language description and crosslinguistic diversity.

The workshops provide junior scholars with unique, invaluable opportunities for exchanging ideas and information with scholars from all around Japan. They have also been effective in helping field researchers with gaining insights and a typological perspective on patterns observed in natural language data.

Field Linguistics Workshop: Grammatical Studies Workshops 25

  • Date/Time: Sat 3 Feb 2024 14:00–17:30
  • Venue: 304, Online meeting
  • Program:
  • 1. Yuko URABE (ILCAA/ JSPS research fellow)
  • “Interlinear glossing and its practical issues”
  • 2. Self-introduction by all participants
  • 3. Ligthening talks by
  • Yasuka FUKAYA (Hiroshima University); Kanji KATO (TUFS/ ROIS-DS-CODH); Sakura ISHIKAWA (TUFS)
  • 4. Group work
  • 5. General discussion
  • For details, please see here.
  • Language: Japanese
  • Admission: Free
  • Pre-registration is required.
  • For registration, please see here. Registration deadline is at noon 31st Jan.
  • Contact: dddling-office[at]tufs.ac.jp (please change [at] to ＠)

Field Linguistics Workshop: Grammatical Studies Workshops 24

  • Date/Time: Tue 30 Jan 2024 13:00–17:00
  • Venue: 303, Online meeting
  • Program:
  • 12:50 Doors Open
  • 13:00–13:20 Keigo UJIIE (National Institute of Japanese Language and Linguistics)
  • Introduction
  • 13:20–13:50 Rihito SHIRATA (Hiroshima University)
  • “How can we argue for diachronic changes on the basis of synchronic evidence?: The case of sentence final grammatical forms in Kikai Ryukyuan”
  • 13:50–14:20 Kenshiro ASAOKA (Graduate School, The University of Tokyo)
  • “On roles and limitations of naive intuition in semantic description: With special reference to Czech possessive constructions”
  • 14:20–14:30 Break
  • 14:30–15:00 Masayuki ISHIZUKA (Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology)
  • “Argumentation and link-forming activity in descriptive linguistics: A case study on descriptions of Basque grammar”
  • 15:00–15:30 Kohei NAKAZAWA (Shinshu University)
  • “Is introspection about prosody reliable?”
  • 15:30–15:40 Break
  • 15:40–16:10 Makoto FURUMOTO (ILCAA Junior Fellow)
  • “Review of the importance of comprehensive understanding of Kimakunduchi for argumentation in its description”
  • 16:10–17:00 All participants
  • Discussion
  • Coordinators: Keigo UJIIE and Makoto FURUMOTO
  • Language: Japanese
  • Admission: Free
  • Pre-registration is required.
  • For registration, please see here. Registration deadline is at noon 29th Jan.
  • Contact: ds[at]aa.tufs.ac.jp (please change [at] to ＠)

Previous Grammatical Studies Workshops

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Field Linguistics Workshop: Grammatical Studies Workshops 22 “Grammatical Studies and Digital Humanities (1)”
  • Date/Time: Mon 20 Mar 2022 13:00–16:00
  • Venue: 303, Online meeting
  • Program:
  • 13:00–13:30 Keita KURABE (ILCAA) and Yona TAKAHASHI (TUFiSCo) “Grammatical Studies and Digital Humanities”
  • 13:30–14:20 So MIYAGAWA (NINJAL) “Methods and Praxis in Digital Humanities: Centering on Linguistic Data (Text Corpora, Audio, and Video)”
  • 14:30–15:20 Yuzuki TSUKAGOSHI (Graduate School, The University of Tokyo) “Possibilities of Machine Learning and AI in Linguistics”
  • 15:30–16:00 All participants Discussion
  • Moderator: Yona TAKAHASHI (TUFiSCo)
  • Jointly sponsored by Core Project “Description and Documentation of Language Dynamics in Asia and Africa: Toward a More In-depth Understanding of the Languages and Cultures of People Living in Asia and Africa” (DDDLing), TUFS Field Science Commons (TUFiSCo), Information Resources Center (IRC)
Field Linguistics Workshop: Grammatical Studies Workshops 21 “Issues in grammaticalisation for language description”
  • Date/Time: Sat 5 Mar 2022 13:00–17:00
  • Venue: Online meeting
  • Program:
  • 13:00–13:10 Makoto FURUMOTO (ILCAA Research Associate) Introduction
  • 13:10–13:40 Makoto FURUMOTO (ILCAA Research Associate) “Traces of grammaticalisation and functional change in Zanzibar dialects of Swahili”
  • 13:40–14:10 So MIYAGAWA (Kyoto University) “Grammaticalization of conjunctions from verbs in Egyptian-Coptic”
  • 14:10–14:40 Aoi GEKA (Graduate Scool, Kyoto University/JSPS/Inner Mongolia University) “Grammaticalization of the second person possessive clitic in Mongolian”
  • 15:00–15:30 Rihito SHIRATA (Hiroshima University) “Grammaticalization in Kikai Ryukyuan: With a focus on sentence-final interrogative forms”
  • 15:30–16:00 Shinsuke HIDAKA (NINJAL) “Differences in auxiliary verb structures with yot- ʻlie downʼ in Uzbek”
  • 16:00–16:30 Keita KURABE (ILCAA) “Gradualness of change: Grammaticalization of Jinghpaw verbs”
  • 16:30–17:00 Discussion by All participants
  • Pre-registration is required. For details, please see here (in Japanese).
  • Organized by Core Project “Linguistic Dynamics Science3 (LingDy3)”
Field Linguistics Workshop: Grammatical Studies Workshops 20 “Issues in language contact (2)”
  • Date/Time: Fri 18 Feb 2022 10:00–12:30
  • Venue: Online meeting
  • Program:
  • 10:00-10:10 Keita KURABE (ILCAA) Introduction
  • 10:10-10:40 Shigeki YOSHIDA (Graduate School, The University of Tokyo) “Number marking and language contact in Sinhala”
  • 10:40-11:10 Sho YAMAOKA (Graduate School, Kyoto University) “Dialect contact in Northern Vietnamese: based on the perturbation between [l] and [n]”
  • 11:10-11:40 Moe KITAMURA (Graduate School, The University of Tokyo) “Language contact between Jerusalem Domari and Arabic: an analysis using Diasystematic Construction Grammar”
  • 11:50-12:30 Discussion
  • Commentators: Salvatore CARLINO (Kyushu University), Yayun CHENG (Graduate School, Kyoto University), Shuichiro NAKAO (Osaka University), So MIYAGAWA (Kyoto University), Kaidi LIN (Graduate School, Kyushu University)
  • Organized by Core Project “Linguistic Dynamics Science3 (LingDy3)”
Field Linguistics Workshop: Grammatical Studies Workshops 19: Issues in language contact”
  • Date/Time: Fri 6 Mar 2021 – Sat 7 Mar 2021 10:00–13:00
  • Venue: Online meeting
  • Program:
  • 6 Mar
  • 10:00-10:10 Keita KURABE (ILCAA) Introduction
  • 10:10-10:50 So MIYAGAWA (Kansai University / Graduate School, Kyoto University) “Language contact between Coptic and Greek in Late Antique Egypt”
  • 10:50-11:30 Salvatore CARLINO (Kyushu University) “The influence of the Shuri dialect on the surrounding dialects - the case of the Iheya dialect”
  • 11:40-12:20 Yayun CHENG (Graduate School, Kyoto University) “Tense, aspect, and modality in Taiwan Mandarin”
  • 12:20-13:00 Kaidi LIN (Graduate School, Kyushu University) “A preliminary investigation of the phonology of Yilan Creole (Taiwan)”
  • 7 Mar
  • 10:00-10:40 Takenori MURAKAMI（Graduate School, Kyoto University）“Agent marking in Nagamese”
  • 10:40-11:20 Hongwei ZHANG (Graduate School, University of Chicago) “Mechanisms paving the way for V-final in Ethiopian Semitic”
  • 11:30-12:10 Shuichiro NAKAO (Osaka University) “Against monolingualist linguistics: Describing two (or more) languages at one time”
  • 12:10-13:00 Discussion by all participants
  • Pre-registration is required. For details, please see here (in Japanese).
Field Linguistics Workshop: Grammatical Studies Workshops 18 “Issues in syllable structure”
  • Date/Time: Sat 17 Oct 2020 - Sun 18 Oct 2020 10:00–13:00
  • Venue: Online meeting
  • Program:
  • 17 Oct
  • 10:00-10:10 Keita KURABE (ILCAA) Introduction
  • 10:10-11:00 Shun NAKAMOTO (Graduate School, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México) “Prenasalized consonants and the internal structure of the onset in Ayautla Mazatec”
  • 11:10-12:00 Sho YAMAOKA (Graduate School, Kyoto University) “The syllable structure of Hanoi Vietnamese: Based on the positon of medials”
  • 12:00-12:50 Ayaka HIRANO (Graduate School, Osaka University) “Syllable internal structure of Nung in Trang Dinh district of Lang Son province”
  • 18 Oct
  • 10:00-10:50 Kanji KATO (Graduate School, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies) “Syllable, accent, and laryngeal consonant in Tokunoshima Amami”
  • 10:50-11:40 Ryuichi TAKI (Graduate School, The University of Tokyo) “Syllable structure in the Uchinoura dialect of Kagoshima Japanese”
  • 11:50-12:40 Misato SHIMIZU (Graduate School, Osaka University) “Syllable structure in the Yaw dialect of Burmese”
  • 12:40-13:00 Discussion
Field Linguistics Workshop: Grammatical Studies Workshops 17: “Language games and phonology (2)”
  • Date/Time: Fri 24 Jan 2020 13:00–17:30
  • Venue: Room 304, ILCAA
  • Program:
  • 13:00–13:10 Keita KURABE (ILCAA) Introduction
  • 13:10–14:00 Naonori NAGAYA (The University of Tokyo), Hiroto UCHIHARA (The National Autonomous University of Mexico) “Language games and phonology in Tagalog”
  • 14:10–15:00 Masayuki ISHIZUKA (The University of Tokyo) “Language games and phonology in Basque”
  • 15:10–16:00 Yuko MOROKUMA (Graduate School, The University of Tokyo) “Language games and phonology in Quechua”
  • 16:10–17:00 Yui SUZUKI (Graduate School, The University of Tokyo) “Language games and phonology in Turkish”
  • 17:00–17:30 Discussion
  • Pre-registration is required. For details, please see here (in Japanese). (217KB)
Field Linguistics Workshop: Grammatical Studies Workshops 16: “Writing Better Abstracts for Conference Presentations”
  • Date/Time: Wed 11 Dec 2019 13:00–16:00
  • Venue: Room 304, ILCAA
  • Program:
  • 1. How reviewing process is conducted
  • 2. Let's review abstracts
  • 3. Good abstracts and bad abstracts
  • 4. Final remarks: ideal abstracts
  • Lecturer: Honoré WATANABE (ILCAA)
  • Pre-registration is required. For details, please see here (in Japanese). (222KB)
Grammatical Studies Workshops 15: “Language games and phonology (1)”
  • Date/Time: Tue 24 Sep 2019 14:00–17:30
  • Venue: Room 304, ILCAA
  • Program:
  • 1. Keita KURABE (ILCAA) “Introduction”
  • 2. Keita KURABE (ILCAA) “Ludling and syllable structure in Jinghpaw”
  • 3. Naoki UETA (JSPS／Osaka University) “Rhythm of Mongolian proverbs”
  • 4. Izumi OCHIAI (Kobe City University of Foreign Studies) “Camouflage by affixation in Ata-yal-ic languages”
  • Pre-registration is required. Please see here. (219KB)
Grammatical Studies Workshops 14: Issues in serial verbs
  • Date/Time: Sat 12 January 2019 13:00–17:00
  • Venue: Room 304, ILCAA
  • Lecturers: Michael C. Ewing (ILCAA visiting professor, University of Melbourne), Toshihide NAKAYAMA (ILCAA)
  • Program:
  • 13:00–13:10　Keita KURABE (ILCAA) Opening remarks
  • 13:10–14:00　Kyosuke YAMAMOTO (JSPS/Graduate school, Kyoto University) “Serial verbs and their subtypes in Ilocano”s
  • 14:10–15:00　Yuma ITO (Toyama University of International Studies) “Serial verbs in Mlabri”
  • 15:10–16:00　Shuichiro NAKAO (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Osaka University) “Arabic languages and serial verbs”
  • 16:10–17:00　Keita KURABE (ILCAA) “Serial verbs in Jinghpaw: A comparison with complex sentences”
  • Pre-registration is required. Please see here. (285KB)
Grammatical Studies Workshops 13: Introduction to Researching Grammar in Conversation
  • Date/Time: Tue 13 – Wed 14 Feb 2018 10:30–15:30
  • Venue: Room 304, ILCAA
  • Lecturers: Michael C. Ewing (ILCAA visiting professor, University of Melbourne), Toshihide NAKAYAMA (ILCAA)
  • Program:
  • Tue 13 Feb
  • Theme: Grammar in conversation　-- We will examine how grammatical structures and patterns observed in conversation are different from those found in elicited sentences
  • 10:30–11:15: lecture 1: Clauses in Indonesian conversation (Ewing)
  • 11:15–12:00: lecture 2: Unexpected syntax in Japanese conversation (Nakayama)
  • 13:00–15:30: Data session -- Examining language in conversation
  • Wed 14 Feb
  • Theme: Cross-genre variation; Conversational data collection and transcription
  • 10:30–11:15: lecture 3: How language use and patterns differ across genres?
  • 11:15–12:00: lecture 4: Introduction to discourse transcription
  • 13:00–15:30:13:00–15:30: Practical training: recording & transcribing a conversation
  • Pre-registration is required. Please see here. (20KB)
Grammatical Studies Workshops 12: Locative verbs
  • Date/Time: Thu 25 Jan 2018 13:30–17:30
  • Venue: Room 304, ILCAA
  • Program:
  • 21 Mar
  • 13:30–14:30　Yuko ABE (Tokyo Woman’s Christian University) “Swahili Locative as a valency”
  • 14:30–15:30　Susumu OKAMOTO (Graduate school, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies) “Semantic roles of P argument in Fijian: with a special focus on “location””
  • 15:50–16:50　Miki KOBAYASHI (Preparatory Office for Nationoal Ainu Museum) “Verbs and Locative Arguments in Ainu”
  • 16:50–17:30　Discussion
  • For details, please see here. (20KB)
  • Language: Japanese
  • Organized by Core Project “Linguistic Dynamics Science3” (LingDy3)
Grammatical Studies Workshops 11― Lecture and Practical session on GRAID: Annotating corpora for research on referentiality across typologically diverse languages
  • Date/Time: Tue 21 Mar 2017 10:30–16:30, Wed 22 Mar 2017 10:30–16:30
  • Venue: Room 304, ILCAA
  • Lecturer: Dr. Stefan Schnell (Postdoctoral Researcher, the University of Melbourne)
  • Schedule:
  • 21 Mar
  • 1. 10:30–12:00　Lecture: Introduction to problems of referential choice and its interaction with information packaging and event representation
  • 2. 13:30–15:00　Practical session: Introduction to annotation conventions GRAID
  • 3. 15:15–16:30　Practical session on GRAID annotations with participants data
  • 22 Mar
  • 1. 10:30–12:00　Lecture: Typology of person agreement systems and accounts of their evolution
  • 2. 13:30–15:00　Practical session: Researching the evolution of agreement systems with GRAID
  • 3. 15:15–16:30　Practical session on GRAID annotations with participants data
  • For details, please see here. (34KB)
  • Language: English
  • Organized by JSPS Program for Advancing Strategic International Networks to Accelerate the Circulation of Talented Researchers, “A collaborative network for usage-based research on lesser-studied languages”
  • Supported by Linguistic Dynamics Science 3 (LingDy3), ILCAA
Grammatical Studies Workshops 10― Polysemy of nominal plural markers: genuine plural, associative plural, vagueness and illustration
  • Date/Time: 31 May 2015 (Sun.) 12:00‐16:00
  • Venue: Room 304, ILCAA
  • Details:
  • Speakers:
  • 1. Yuto NIINAGA (Seijo University) and Miho SAITO (Kobe University) “Polysemy of nominal plural markers in Yuwan dialect and Setouchi dialect in Amami Oshima: genuine plural, associative plural, vagueness and illustration”
  • 2. Hiromi SHIGENO (Hiroshima University of Economics) “Polysemy of nominal plural markers in Ura dialect in Amami Oshima: genuine plural, associative plural, vagueness and illustration”
  • 3. Yusuke HIRATSUKA (Shigakukan University) “Polysemy of nominal plural markers in Koshikijima Sato dialect”
  • 4. Kazuyuki KIRYU (Mimasaka University) “Polysemy of nominal plural markers in Katmandu dialect (Newar)”
  • * This workshop will be broadcasted by USTREAM. It is also welcome to participate through the internet broadcast.
  • Language: Japanese
  • Organized by ILCAA, Linguistic Dynamics Science Project2 (LingDy2)
Grammatical Studies Workshops 9― Copulas and Existential Expressions (3)
  • Date/Time: 11 January 2015 (Sun.) 13:30‐17:30
  • Venue: Room 304, ILCAA
  • Details:
  • Speakers:
  • Tomoaki GOTO (Graduate School, The University of Tokyo) “Copular and existential constructions in Arabic” (tentative title)
  • So MIYAGAWA (Graduate School, Kyoto University) “Copulas in Egyptian”
  • Izumi OCHIAI (Graduate School, Kyoto University) “Equational and existential constructions in Paran Seediq (a copulaless language)”
  • Language: Japanese
Grammatical Studies Workshops 8― Copulas and Existential Expressions (2)
  • Date/Time: 6 December 2014 (Sat.) 13:30‐17:30
  • Venue: Room 304, ILCAA
  • Details:
  • Speakers:
  • Masayuki ISHIZUKA (Graduate School, University of Tokyo) “Two types of copular sentences in Basque”
  • Mitsuya SASAKI (Graduate School, The University of Tokyo) “Copular sentences and types of arguments in Ixquihuacan Nahuatl”
  • Noboru YOSHIOKA (National Museum of Ethnology) “Copulas of languages in northern Pakistan”
  • Language: Japanese
Grammatical Studies Workshops 7― Copulas and Existential Expressions (1)
  • Date/Time: 6 July 2014 (Sun.) 13:30‐17:30
  • Venue: Room 304, ILCAA
  • Details:
  • Speakers:
  • Yohei YAMADA (Graduate School, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies) “Existential Expressions in Dagur” (tentative title)
  • Pilnam HAN (Tokyo University of Foreign Studies) “Existential Sentences Involving Copulative Use in Japanese and Korean”
  • Makoto FURUMOTO (Graduate School of Letters, Kyoto University) “On Copular Sentences in the Kimakunduchi (Kikae) Dialect of Swahili”
  • Language: Japanese
Grammatical Studies Workshops 6― Plurality (2)
  • Date/Time: 18 March 2014 (Tue.) 13:30‐17:30
  • Venue: Room 304, ILCAA
  • Details:
  • Speakers:
  • Yuma ITO (Graduate School of Kyoto University) “Unmarked Dual in Mlabri personal pronoun”
  • Atsuko UTSUMI (Meisei University) “Pluractional Verbs - Verbs that denote plural subjects and iterative Aspect -”
  • Hideyuki ONISHI (Graduate School of Tokyo University of Foreign Studies) “Optional plural marking and definiteness in Rawang”
  • Michinori SHIMOJI (Kyushu University) “Dual in Ryukyuan”
  • Language: Japanese
  • Report: (125KB) (in Japanese)
Grammatical Studies Workshops 5― Plurality (1)
  • Date/Time: 1 February 2014 (Sat.) 14:30‐17:30
  • Venue: Room 306, ILCAA
  • Details:
  • Speakers:
  • Yuto NIINAGA (JSPS Researcher/Tokyo University of Foreign Studies) “Arbitrariness of the grammatical number: “Plural” markers that indicate a single referent in Yuwan (Amami, Northern Ryukyuan)”
  • So MIYAGAWA (Graduate Student in Linguistics at Kyoto University) “Plurality in the Sahidic Dialect of Coptic Egyptian”
  • Language: Japanese
  • Report: (105KB) (in Japanese)
Grammatical Studies Workshops 4― Is there really a “zero”? (2)
  • Date/Time: 21 July 2012 (Sat.) 13:00-17:00
  • Venue: Room 405, ILCAA

  • The workshop focuses on the linguistic analysis of “zero”, following the last workshop held in March.
    Linguistic analyses often assume a zero form when there is nothing tangible on the surface. However, since a zero does not have any substance, it is sometimes quite difficult to determine whether there is actually a zero or nothing. In the workshop, we shall discuss problems concerning a linguistic zero on the basis of case examples from various languages.

  • * This workshop will be broadcasted by USTREAM. It is also welcome to participate through the internet broadcast.
  • Language: Japanese
  • Report: (241KB) (in Japanese)
Grammatical Studies Workshops 3― Is there really a “zero”?
  • Date/Time: 27 March 2012 (Tue.) 13:30-17:00
  • Venue: Room 304(Multi Media Conference Room), ILCAA

  • Linguistic analyses often assume a zero form when there is nothing tangible on the surface. However, since a zero does not have any substance, it is sometimes quite difficult to determine whether there is actually a zero or nothing. In the workshop, we shall discuss problems concerning a linguistic zero on the basis of case examples from various languages.

  • * This workshop will be broadcasted by USTREAM. It is also welcome to participate through the internet broadcast.
  • * You can also leave your comments on Twitter. (Our hashtag is: #ilcaaflws.)
  • Language: Japanese
  • Report: (166KB) (in Japanese)
Grammatical Studies Workshops 2― Some issues on “adjectives” (2)
  • Date/Time: 29 October 2011 (Sat.) 14:00-17:00
  • Venue: Room 301 (Seminar Room), ILCAA

  • This workshop is held as the second meeting of “Grammatical Studies Workshops.” Following the first one in May, it addresses various problems concerning adjectives. In Japanese, attributive notions are mainly categorized into “adjectives.” In not a few languages, however, such notions are expressed by verbs or nouns, which often manifest grammatical idiosyncrasy. This workshop attempts to illustrate that idiosyncrasy from some notional perspectives as “(per-/con-)ception”, “attributive predication” and “temporality.”

  • * This workshop will be broadcasted by USTREAM. It is also welcome to participate through the internet broadcast.
  • * You can also leave your comments on Twitter. (Our hashtag is: #ilcaaflws.)
  • Language: Japanese
  • Report: (205KB) (in Japanese)
Grammatical Studies Workshops １― Some issues on “adjectives”
  • Date/Time: 28 May 2011 (Sat.) 13:00-17:30
  • Venue: Room 302 (Small Conference Room), ILCAA
  • Instructor: Reiko ASO (Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science)

  • This workshop is held as the first meeting of “Grammatical Studies Workshops.”
    In Japanese, attributive notions are mainly categorized into “adjectives.”However, in not a few languages, these notions are categorized as verbs or nouns. In such cases, it is quite common that those verbs and nouns which describe attributive notions manifest grammatical idiosyncrasy. This workshop attempts to illustrate that idiosyncrasy from some notional perspectives as “(per-/con-)ception”, “attributive predication” and “temporality.”

  • * This workshop will be broadcasted by USTREAM. It is also welcome to participate through the internet broadcast.
  • * You can also leave your comments on Twitter. (Our hashtag is: #ilcaaflws.)
  • Language: Japanese
  • Report: (153KB) (in Japanese)
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