14characteristically integrate different types of components of macro-events (complex events) in such semantic domains as motion, state change, and aspect to express them morphosyntactically (Talmy 1985, 1991, 2000), and addresses theoretical issues raised by previous studies (e.g., what macro-events are, whether another typological type like the equipollent type exists) and those that we may encounter as our studies advance. Many African languages have been reported to commonly use multi-verb constructions to integrate event components, but no systematic comparison between morphosyntactic or semantic structures of these constructions seems to have been made so far. By comparing not only languages within Africa with each other but also languages in Africa with those in other areas of the world, the project examines how the African languages under study are classified into the typological types and whether there is any property that is characteristically found across African languages. The project further looks at how consistently characteristic patterns of expressing events are found across different semantic domains within each individual language, language family, and phylum.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 discussions. Grammatical voice is related to many other grammatical topics such as ‘indication of information structure’ and ‘tense/aspect mood’; so looking into the topic will lead to a deeper understanding of a greater part of the grammar of the languages of this area. In addition to the main topic, a sub-topic, which will be presented by the participants, will be dealt with.II. To conduct a digital archiving of linguistic data, on which the linguistic research in I above will be based. This project is a part of the “Linguistic Dynamics Science Project” at ILCAA.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.Joint Research Projects
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