Ritsuko Kikusawa

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Papers Read & Lectures given

1998 Notes on taro in Wailevu village in Fiji (in Japanese). Meeting of the joint research project "Root Crop Agriculture in Oceania", at the National Museum of Ethnology. (Osaka, June 12, 1998)
1998 Verb morphology and transitivity in Fijian. Meeting of the ILCAA joint research project "Transitivity and Actancy Systems in Syntactic Typology", at ILCAA. (Tokyo, June 7, 1998)
1998 A formal analysis of the so-called 'passive' in Fijian. Fifth Conference of the Austronesian Formal Linguistics Association (AFLA V), Honolulu: University of Hawai'i. (Honolulu, March 29, 1998)
1998 A reconstruction of the main verbal structures in Proto-Central Pacific. Tuesday Seminar, University of Hawai'i. (Honolulu, February 19, 1998)
1998 The history of root-crop agriculture in Oceania from a comparative linguistics point of view: An introduction, Taro (1) (in Japanese). Meeting of the joint research project "Root Crop Agriculture in Oceania", the National Museum of Ethnology. (Osaka, January 24, 1998)
1997 Comparative syntax of Fijian and Tongan: How a single proto-language developed into two different actancy systems. Eighth International Conference on Austronesian Linguistics (8ICAL), Academia Sinica. (Taipei, December 28, 1997)
1997 Transitivity: The Lexicase approach. International Workshop on Language Contact and Typology, Session 1 "Transitivities", ILCAA. (Tokyo, December 21, 1997)
1997 Ergativity and accusativity in Polynesian languages: The ergative system and ergative patterns in diachronic typology. Second Conference of the Association of Linguistic Typology (ALT II), University of Oregon. (Eugene, September 13, 1997)
1997 Transitivity and ergativity in Polynesian languages. A meeting of the project "Transitivity and Ergativity/accusativity in Syntactic Typology", ILCAA. (Tokyo, June 14, 1997)
1997 An Introduction to Lexicase grammatical theory (in Japanese). Lectures given at study meetings of the ILCAA joint research project "Analysis and Description of Individual Languages and Linguistic Typology", ILCAA. (Tokyo, February 14, 21, 1997)
1997 A re-examination of grammatical ergativity in Tongan. The Third International Conference on Oceanic Linguistics (TRICOL), University of Waikato. (Hamilton, January 15, 1997)
1996 The so-called 'articles' in the Wailevu Communalect of Fijian: Determiners or something else? The East-West Center Student's Conference, University of Hawai'i, Honolulu. (Honolulu, February 1996)
1995 Where did suli come from?: A study of the words connected to taro plants in Oceanic languages. Second International Conference on Oceanic Linguistics (SICOL), the University of the South Pacific (Suva, July 1995)
1994 On the subject pronoun suffix -i in the Wailevu Communalect of Fijian (in Japanese). 10th conference of Japanese Society of Oceanic Studies (Shizuoka, March 1994)
1993 On the meaning of 'Sa(' in the Wailevu Communalect of Fijian (in Japanese). 107th conference of the Japanese Linguistic Society (Ehime, June 1993)
1993 Village life in Fiji (in Japanese). A talk for Primary School children, Kumon private school in Shiga, Japan.
1992 Japanese ways of request: How they ask and how they respond. Symposium on The Japanese Mind. School of Social and Economic Development of the University of the South Pacific. (Suva, July 1992)

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Conference and Workshop Reviews (all in Japanese)

1998.3 Conference report: The Eighth International Conference on Austronesian Linguistics (8ICAL), Tsuushin 92:42-43.
1998.3 Project meeting report: The first meeting of the ILCAA joint research project "Human Flow and Creation of New Culture in South East Asia, Linguistic Section: Standardization, Multi-linguistic situation, and Creolization" Tsuushin 92, pp.45-46.
1997.7 Conference report: The Third International Conference on Oceanic Linguistics (TRICOL) and the Second Conference of Pacific Creole Languages Association (PACLA), Tsuushin 90, pp.54-55.
1997.7 Project meeting report: A symposium of the ILCAA joint research project "Analysis and Description of Individual Languages and Linguistic Typology" Tsuushin 90, pp.64-65.

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Conferences and Symposia Organized

Chair and organizer of the ILCAA joint research project "Transitivity and Actancy Systems in Linguistic Typology", ILCAA. (1998.4-)
meeting organized:
June 6-7, 1998 (ILCAA)
Chair and organizer of thelinguistics section of the ILCAA joint research project "Human Flow and Creation of New Culture in South East Asia", ILCAA (1998.4-)
meeting organized:
A regular meeting: July 13, 1998, (ILCAA)
Organizer of the International Workshop on Language Contact and Typology, Session 1: Transitivities. December 21, 1997, ILCAA.
Editor, Tsuushin 91. (issued on November 25, 1997)
Chair and organizer of the project "Transitivity and Ergativity/ Accusativity in Linguistic Typology", ILCAA. (1997.4-1998.3)
meetings organized:
June 14, 1997 (at ILCAA);
October 10, 1997 (at National Museum of Ethnology);
February 7-8, 1998 (at ILCAA).
Chair and organizer of the Linguistics section of the ILCAA joint research project "Human Flow and Creation of New Culture in South East Asia", ILCAA (1997.4-1998.3)
meetings organized:
A regular meeting: October 25, 1997.
Symposium sessions 2 & 4: December 14, 1997.
Organizer of the meetings of the ILCAA joint research project "Analysis and Description of Individual Languages and Linguistic Typology (Chair: Toru Hayasi)" ILCAA. (1996.9-1997.3)
meetings organized:
A Seminar on language typology and linguistic description: November 9, 1996, (at ILCAA)
A regular meeting: December 14, 1996 (at ILCAA)
A lecture and seminar with Proffessor Stanley Starosta, February 27-28, 1997. (at ILCAA).
Member of the Organizing Committee of the International Symposium "Human Flow and Creation of New Culture in South East Asia", KKR Hotel Tokyo, December 2-5, 1996.

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