14Joint Research ProjectsSources 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 LinguisticsProject 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 CombiningProject 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.Comparative Study on the Languages of the North from Typological PerspectiveProject term: April, 2010 – March, 2013Coordinator: KUREBITO, TokusuThis project will conduct comparative research on various grammatical phenomena of the languages distributed over the area from north eastern Siberia to North America (languages of the North, hereinafter). This area, which is also supposed to be the route of mankind’s movement from the Old World to the New has attracted linguists’ attention for its preeminent language density consisting of different types and families. Typological diversity of these languages covers a broad variety of both morphological and syntactic matters such as synthesis and cohesiveness, morphological means, marking of grammatical relationship, word order, and grammatical category. The languages of both areas, north eastern Siberia and North America, have so far been studied separately from each other. However, there are a number of grammatical phenomena which show similarity beyond the Continents. Therefore, it is becoming more and more important to view the area from an overall perspective. With cooperation from specialists at home and abroad, our Institute is expected to become a unique base for the typological study of the languages of the North.This project is a part of the “Linguistic Dynamics Science Project” at ILCAA.Descriptive Studies of Indonesian Languages: their Variety and SimilarityProject term: April, 2010 – March, 2013Coordinator: SHIOHARA, AsakoThis project aims at the development of descriptive studies on Indonesian Languages, and to conduct the following two activities.I. To clarify the grammatical diversity and similarity among Indonesian Languages, by gathering data and knowledge on individual languages presented by each researcher. The main topic of the project is ‘grammatical voice’, on which there will be typological and historical
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