International Workshop: Studies of the Tangut from the viewpoints of researches on TB minority languages

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Date/Time

9 September, 2022 (Fri.), 13:00–17:30

Venue

303, Online Meeting via Zoom

Program

13:00–13:15
ARAKAWA Shintaro (ILCAA)
Opening remarks

Session 1: From Tangut

13:15–14:00
LIU SHAOHUA (ILCAA, TUFS and Renmin University of China)
“The Irrealis Category in Tangut. (contrast with the Irrealis category in rGyalrong)”

14:00–14:45
ARAKAWA Shintaro (ILCAA)
“On the prefix cluster in Tangut and TB minority languages (tentative)”

Session 2: From Qiangic

15:00–15:45
SHIRAI Satoko (The University of Tokyo)
“Can we find traces of the development of Qiangic classifiers in Tangut?”

15:45–16:30
ZHANG Shuya (ILCAA, TUFS and JSPS)
“Revisiting the Tangut kinship system”

16:30–17:15
LAI Yunfan (Trinity College Dublin)
“On the origins of Tangut “long vowels””

Moderator

 ARAKAWA Shintaro (ILCAA)

Language

English

Admission

Free

Pre-registration

Pre-registration is required. Please register here.

Jointly sponsored by

• ILCAA, Core Project “Description and Documentation of Language Dynamics in Asia and Africa: Toward a More In-depth Understanding of the Languages and Cultures of People Living in Asia and Africa (DDDLing)”
• Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (S) “A Study on the Historical Development of the Sino-Tibetan Languages and their Typological Geography” (Principal Investigator: Takumi IKEDA (Kyoto University)Project number:18H05219)

(Posted 22 August, 2022)