14Joint Research Projects[Reconstructing Grammatical Phenomena from the Viewpoint of Tibeto-Burman Languages - Stage 2 : Characterization and Classication of Sentences]Project term: April, 2009 – March, 2011Coordinator: SAWADA, HideoThe project studies structural and functional aspects displayed by sentences of Tibeto-Burman (TB) languages. It is designed for members describing TB languages to share facts relevant to sentences they have uncovered, and the width and depth of perspective of observation, thereby advance descriptions by each members and enrich on understanding of sentences of TB languages. We plan to have three meetings this year. Members are to make a presentation on the sentences of their target languages, especially focusing on the classication of verb sentences with respect to speech-act types, the possible types of non-verb sentence and the distribution of copula (if any). Next year we will discuss the concepts and factors crucial to the descriptions of sentences of TB languages. Contents of the meetings such as summaries of each report are publicized on our website. The publication on sentences of TB languages is also planned.This project is a part of the “Linguistic Dynamics Science Project” at ILCAA.[Missionary Linguistics (2nd stage)]Project term: April, 2009 – March, 2012Coordinator: TOYOSHIMA, MasayukiDuring the “Grand Voyage Era” through the 16th and 17th centuries, dictionaries, grammars, as well as doctrines and disciplines of Christianity were produced both in Latin/Spanish/Portuguese and in the languages that were targets of the propaganda. “Missionary Linguistics” is a comparatively young branch of the history of linguistics, which treats these documents as testimonies of the rst encounter of the Latin grammar with the languages that are fundamentally different from Latin, in Asia, Africa, and South America.Sources of “Missionary Linguistics” as well as its researchers are scattered all over the world; hence there is a need for international cooperative researches. One of the objectives of this joint research project is to provide fundamental resources and tools of “Missionary Linguistics” for international cooperative researches.The project acquired funding from the JSPS (Japan Society for Promotion of Science)’s special fund “Invitational Training Program for Advanced Japanese Research Institutes” in 2009, which enabled the project to hold an International Conference, “The 6th International Conference on Missionary Linguistics,” in March 2010. The JSPS Program and the International Conference will make this project a much more international one in the coming years.[Construction of Shared Research Resources for Korean Historical Linguistics]Project term: April, 2009 – March, 2012Coordinator: ITO, ChiyukiThis project aims to analyze various aspects of Korean historical linguistics, such as phonology, morphology, syntax, philology of Old, Middle and Modern Korean, and to construct shared research resources while developing analytic tools of the Korean database.The following activities are planned: 1) Periodic meetings where the latest research results of the collaborators are presented. 2) Publication of working papers on Korean historical linguistics. 3) Designing several programs/techniques to deal with Korean historical texts efciently. 4) Further development of the Korean linguistics website.[Cross-Linguistic Studies on Clause Combining]Project term: April, 2010 – March, 2013Coordinator: WATANABE, Honoré This project brings together linguists working on typologically diverse languages to carry out cross-linguistic studies on clause combining. The project investigates clause combining of various types across typologically different languages in order to examine the diversity, types, and commonality of the phenomenon. We will consider not only the commonly recognized constructions of coordination and subordination, but also “insubordinating” construction, i.e., the use of formally subordinate clauses without matrix clauses.This project is a part of the “Linguistic Dynamics Science Project” at ILCAA.
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