International Workshop on Transitivity and Its Related Phenomena

Posted：2011.11.16

*This event has already been held.

This workshop 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 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.

Tokusu Kurebito, Project Coordinator (ILCAA)

* This workshop is the 6th meeting of the ILCAA Joint Research Project “Comparative Study on the Languages of the North from Typological Perspective”.

Dates

2 (Fri.)–4 (Sun.), December, 2011

Venue

Room 304, Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa (ILCAA), Tokyo University of Foreign Studies (TUFS)

Program

2 December (Fri.) — Special Talks

15:30–15:40	Opening
15:40–16:30	*Language Documentation and the Alaska Native Languages Today* Anna BERGE (ILCAA Joint Researcher/ ANLC, University of Alaska, Fairbanks)Abstract
16:40–17:30	*Collaborative Linguistic Annotation and Archiving* Arienne DWYER (ILCAA Joint Researcher / University of Kansas)Abstract

3 December (Sat.)

10:00–10:15	Opening
10:15–11:05	*Anticausativization in the Hokkaido dialect of Japanese* Kan SASAKI (ILCAA Joint Researcher / Sapporo Gakuin University) Abstract
11:10–12:00	*Contact-induced change in relativization strategies in Eastern Khanty* Olga POTANINA (Tomsk Polytechnic University) Abstract
12:00–13:15	Lunch
13:15–14:05	*Morphological transitivity in some Amdo Mongolic languages* Arienne DWYER (ILCAA Joint Researcher / University of Kansas) Abstract
14:10–15:00	*Transitivity in Turkish* Yuu KURIBAYASHI (ILCAA Joint Researcher / Okayama University)Abstract
15:00–15:30	Tea break
15:30–16:20	*Transitivity and Arguments in Sliammon Salish* Honoré WATANABE (ILCAA)Abstract
16:25–17:15	*Valency retention in Sakha derivational nominalization with reference to lexical integrity and morphology-syntax interface* Fuyuki EBATA (ILCAA Joint Researcher / Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, Research Fellow of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science) Abstract
17:15–17:30	Discussion
18:00–20:00	Reception (University Center) (To participate, please contact LingDy Office: lingdy-office@aacore.net)

4 December (Sun.)

10:00–10:50	*Object Reduction in Aleut* Anna BERGE (ILCAA Joint Researcher / ANLC, University of Alaska, Fairbanks) Abstract
10:55–11:45	*Voice and valency change in ergative and accusative languages: Focusing on Chukchi and Mongolian* Tokusu KUREBITO (ILCAA) Abstract
11:45–13:00	Lunch
13:00–13:50	*Negation in Eastern Khanty and Sorthern Selkup: Areal and Typological Perspective* Andrey FILCHENKO (Pedagogical University of Tomsk)Abstract
13:55–14:45	*Phonologically driven allomorphy in Nivkh transitive verbs* Hidetoshi SHIRAISHI (ILCAA Joint Researcher / Sapporo Gakuin University) Abstract
14:45–15:15	Discussion
15:15–15:25	Closing