MA Course in Linguistics for 2001
Gakushi Nyugaku in Linguistics for 2001The 142nd General Meeting of the Linguistic Society of Japan will be held at Nohon University, College of Humanities and Sciences (Setagaya, Tokyo) on June 18-19. See part of the Program.
The 141st General Meeting of the Linguistic Society of Japan will be held at Tohoku University (Sendai) on November 27-28. See part of the Program.
Application forms are distributed from July 24 on for the MA / DLit. Courses. See http://www.gengo.l.u-tokyo.ac.jp/nyushi2011_e.html for details.
The 140th General Meeting of the Linguistic Society of Japan will be held at the University of Tsukuba on June 19-20. See part of the Program.
Volume 29 of Tokyo University Linguistic Papers, a special issue on the occasion of the retirement of Professor UWANO Zendo, is now available. See the Contents.
Volume 28 of Tokyo University Linguistic Papers is now available. See the Contents.
The 139th General Meeting of the Linguistic Society of Japan will be held at Kobe University (Kobe) on November 28-29. See part of the Program.
Application forms are distributed from September 1 on for the MA / DLit. Courses. See http://www.gengo.l.u-tokyo.ac.jp/nyushi2010_e.html for details.
The 138th General Meeting of the Linguistic Society of Japan will be held at the Kanda University of International Studies (Makuhari, Chiba) on June 20-21. See part of the Program.
Abstract:
What I propose to do in this lecture is describe a developmental behavioral mechanism that could, plausibly, bridge the gap between the one-word stage and the simple-clause stage in both ontogeny and phylogeny. I will go about this task by describing first a synchronic communicative behavior — a grammatical construction — that is so ubiquitous in spoken language that it is most commonly ignored. I will call this construction either verbless clauses or scattered non-verbal constituent falling under its own intonation contour. I will first illustrate the use of this construction in two typologically-dissimilar languages, Ute (oral narrative) and English (conversation), and will show that it is an amazingly well governed construction in both languages, thus in both oral genres.
After describing the use of the verbless-clause construction in oral adult usage, I will describe its use in early child language, using English data from a relatively early period of grammar acquisition. During this period, a major transition occurs, from one-word clauses that are predominantly nouns to two-word or longer clauses with the verb and nominal arguments falling under a single intonation contour. I will suggest that the very same behavioral mechanism attested in adult usage for joining together nominal arguments of the clause with their relevant verb under a single intonation contour, is also available to children at this transitional stage of language acquisition. What is more, the use of the verbless-clause construction is just as well-governed in children as it is in adults.
I will next show the use of the same construction, with the same communicative behavior, in second language pidgin narrative text, using stage-I Korean-English oral narrative transcripts. I will show that this construction is widespread in the pidgin narrative, and that its use is just as well-governed in the pidgin as it is in adult Ute, adult English, and early child-hood usage.
Lastly, I will describe the use of the same construction in oral narrative of a Broca’s aphasia patient, showing both its high text frequency and its amazing well-governedness. The inference I will draw at the end is that the same behavioral mechanism identified in the usage of adult English and Ute speakers, young children, pidgin speakers and Broca’s Aphasia patients must have also been available in the corresponding early stage of language evolution. Indeed, I will suggest that just like nominal zero-anaphora, verbal zero-anaphora is part of pre-grammar or proto-grammar. And that just like its nominal counterpart, this construction remains part of the mature adult grammatical inventory.
Abstract
One of the main achievements of Thomason and Kaufman's (1988) seminal work on language contact was that they proposed a strong generalization: "As far as the strictly linguistic possibilities go, any linguistic feature can be transferred from any language to any other language; and implicational universals that depend solely on linguistic properties are similarly invalid" (Thomason & Kaufman 1988:14). This generalization has been reiterated ever since by Thomason and others.
In the paper to be presented it is argued that there are in fact constraints on contact-induced linguistic change, and that these factors can be accounted for in a principled way. These constraints relate to grammatical transfer, more precisely to contact-induced grammaticalization, which concerns the transfer of meanings and structures rather than of form-meaning pairings or of phonetic substance (Heine & Kuteva 2005).
Volume 27 of Tokyo University Linguistic Papers is now available. See the Contents.
The 137th General Meeting of the Linguistic Society of Japan will be held at Kanazawa University (Ishikawa Pref.) on November 29-30. See part of the Program.
This Special Meeting will be held as a joint class for those of the 3rd, 4th and 5th periods, Friday.
Abstract
!Xun belongs to what previously has been called Northern Khoisan, spoken in southwestern Africa by people who traditionally are hunter-gatherers. A striking feature of !Xun, and of Khoisan languages in general, is the huge inventory of click sounds. With roughly 120 different phonemes, !Xun belongs to the languages with one of the most complex sound systems of the world. Typologically, !Xun shows certain features which might be special: It is an isolating language where grammatical information is mainly encoded by particles or clitics. It has developed complex grammatical categories, in particular with regard to tense, aspect, modality, passive, causativity, reciprocal; it has a noun class system, plural marking, and complex demonstratives. Up to this point it looks like any other 'ordinary language'. But what distinguishes !Xun from other languages is the fact that hardly any of the categories are obligatory. The speaker has a great freedom to use them or not to use them. In the paper I will outline some of the salient features of !Xun. Many grammatical markers are hybrids, they are used simultaneously as lexical elements, expressing a concrete semantics, and as grammatical markers expressing schematized meanings.
Application forms are distributed from September 1 on for the MA / DLit. Courses. See http://www.gengo.l.u-tokyo.ac.jp/nyushi2009_e.html for details.
The 136th General Meeting of the Linguistic Society of Japan will be held at Gakushuin University (Mejiro, Tokyo) on June 21-22. See part of the Program.
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The 135th General Meeting of the Linguistic Society of Japan will be held at Shinshu University (Matsumoto, Nagano) on November 24-25. See part of the Program.
Volume 26 of Tokyo University Linguistic Papers is now available. See the Contents.
Application forms are distributed from September 3 on for the MA / DLit. Courses. See http://www.gengo.l.u-tokyo.ac.jp/nyushi2008_e.html for details.
The 134th General Meeting of the Linguistic Society of Japan will be held at Reitaku University (Kashiwa, Chiba) on June 16-17. See part of the Program.
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The 133rd General Meeting of the Linguistic Society of Japan will be held at Sapporo Gakuin University on November 18-19. See part of the Program.
Application forms are distributed from September 1 on for the MA / DLit. Courses. See http://www.gengo.l.u-tokyo.ac.jp/nyushi2007_e.html for details.
The 132nd General Meeting of the Linguistic Society of Japan will be held at U Tokyo (Komaba Campus) on June 17-18. See part of the Program.
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The 131st General Meeting of the Linguistic Society of Japan will be held at Hiroshima University (Higashi Hiroshima Campus) on November 19-20. See part of the Program.
Volume 24 of Tokyo University Linguistic Papers is now available. See the Contents.
Application forms are distributed from September 1 on for the MA / DLit. Courses as well as for the Gakushi Nyugaku (BA holders from a Japanese University to be admitted to the 3rd undergraduate year). See http://www.gengo.l.u-tokyo.ac.jp/nyushi2006_e.html for details.
The 130th General Meeting of the Linguistic Society of Japan will be held at International Christian University (Mitaka City) on June 11-12. See part of the Program.
A Conference on Diversity in Data and Description: Problems and Progress in the Study of Peripheral Eurasian Languages will be held on November 26-27 (Fri/Sat) at the Sanjo Conference Hall.
See the Program.
The 129th General Meeting of the Linguistic Society of Japan will be held at Toyama University (Toyama City) on November 20-21. See part of the Program.
Volume 23 of Tokyo University Linguistic Papers is now available. See the Contents.
Professor Brent Vine (UCLA), a specialist in Indo-European comparative linguistics and Latin and other ancient Italic languages, will give a talk on October 20 (Wed.) in the Department of Linguistics. A handout will be ready by the time of the lecture.
The above "Law" concerns a sound change of the type ow (ōw) > aw (āw), such as Latin octavus "8th" compared to octo "8".
Application forms are distributed from September 1 on for the MA / DLit. Courses as well as for the Gakushi Nyugaku (BA holders from a Japanese University to be admitted to the 3rd undergraduate year). See http://www.gengo.l.u-tokyo.ac.jp/nyushi2005_e.html for details.
The 128th General Meeting of the Linguistic Society of Japan will be held at Tokyo-Gakugei University (Koganei, Tokyo) on June 19-20. See part of the Program.
See the Table at the link below.
The 127th General Meeting of the Linguistic Society of Japan will be held at Osaka City University (Osaka) on November 22-23. See part of the Program.
Volume 22 of Tokyo University Linguistic Papers is now available. See the Contents.
The 126th General Meeting of the Linguistic Society of Japan will be held at Aoyama-Gakuin University (Shibuya, Tokyo) on June 21-22. See part of the Program.
See the Table at the link below.
The 125th General Meeting of the Linguistic Society of Japan will be held at Tohoku-Gakuin University (Sendai) on November 3-4. See part of the Program.
Application forms are distributed from September 2 on for the MA / DLit. Courses as well as for the Gakushi Nyugaku (BA holders from a Japanese University to be admitted to the 3rd undergraduate year).
Volume 21 of Tokyo University Linguistic Papers is now available. See the Contents.
The 124th General Meeting of the Linguistic Society of Japan will be held at Tokyo University of Foreign Studies (Fuchû, Tokyo) on June 15-16. See part of the Program.
Entrance Exams (the first stage; written) in Linguistics for the MA course and for the Gakushi-Nyugaku (3rd yr. undergrad. for BA holders from a Japanese University) were held on Saturday, Jan. 26. The second stage (oral) for those who passed them will be held on Feb. 13.
The exams can be viewed below. On non-Japanese systems (Windows / Mac / UNIX) Adobe Acrobat 4 / 5 is required.
http://www.gengo.l.u-tokyo.ac.jp/nyushi2k2_e.html#kakomon
The 123rd General Meeting of the Linguistic Society of Japan will be held at Kyushu University (Fukuoka) on November 17-18. See part of the Program.
Application forms are distributed from September 3 on for the MA / DLit. Courses as well as for the Gakushi Nyugaku (BA holders from a Japanese University to be admitted to the 3rd undergraduate year).
Volume 20 of Tokyo University Linguistic Papers is now available. This issue is a Festschrift for Professor YUKAWA Yasutoshi, who retired from our University (but not from his activities elsewhere) in March. See the Contents.
Date & Time: June 16, 2001, 13:30 - 19:00
Venue: Sanjo Conference Hall, Room 201 (the Hongo Campus, the University of Tokyo)
Kim Mi-Seon (Visiting Research Fellow, The National Museum of Ethnology) : A Case of Language Contact in Ikuno, Osaka: Linguistic Influence of the First Generation Korean Immigrants in Japan upon Creating and Settling Code-mixing Phenomena
Comment: Yim Yeong Cheol (Chung-Ang University)
Tooru Hayasi (The University of Tokyo) : Turkish Compound Verbs with German Infinitives Created by the Turkish-German Bilinguals in Berlin
Comment: Elif Dilmac (Tokyo University of Foreign Studies)
Carol W. Pfaff (Freie Universitaet Berlin) : The Development of Nominal and Verbal Morphology in Turkish of Second Generation Turkish/German Bilinguals: Categories and their Marking, Structures and their Use
In conjunction with the above symposium, the following lecture will be given.
Speaker: Carol W. Pfaff (Professor, Die Freie Universitaet Berlin)
Date & Time: June 14, 2001, 13:10 - 16:40
Venue: Bungakubu Building No. 3, 6th Floor, Room 3604 (The Hongo Campus, The University of Tokyo)
Topics to be dealt with: demography of immigrant communities, language contact, language shift, language policies and interaction in bilingual conversations. Data mainly come from researches done in USA and Canada as well as her own Project, in which discourses of Turkish-German bilingual children in Berlin have been analyzed. No linguistic or socio-logical background will be needed.
Enquiries: hayasi@L.u-tokyo.ac.jp
(01/05/16)
Professor Emeritus and member of the Japan Academy, Dr. HARA Minoru, will deliver a lecture entitled "Language and Culture of Classical India" from 16:00 to 17:30, May 23 (Wed), at Room 1 of the Faculty of Letters.
It is sponsored by the Fuse Academic Foundation as the eighth of the Annual Lectures on "Asian Cultures".
A synopsis is as follows: "The differences one encounters in how various peoples understood and expressed certain concepts at different times can only be explained through careful studies of the vocabulary. Sanskrit, the language of Classical India, is well known for its rich vocabulary, on which some examples will be drawn and, in comparison with other languages, some of its characteristics will be examined. The importance of the study of Classics will also be discussed."
The 122nd General Meeting of the Linguistic Society of Japan will be held at Hitotsubashi University (Kunitachi, Tokyo) on June 23-24. See part of the Program.
Entrance Exams (the first stage; written) in Linguistics for the MA course and for the Gakushi-Nyugaku (3rd yr. undergrad. for BA holders from a Japanese University) were held on Saturday, Jan. 27. The second stage (oral) for those who passed them will be held on Feb. 14.
The exams can be viewed below. On non-Japanese systems (Windows / Mac / UNIX) Adobe Acrobat 4 is required.
Adobe Acrobat Reader 4 (English etc.) can be downloaded free of charge from:
See the Table at the link below.
The 121st General Meeting of the Linguistic Society of Japan will be held at Nagoya-Gakuin University (Seto, Aichi pref.) on November 25-26. See part of the Program.
MINEYA Tôru sensei, who taught in our Department of Linguistics from 1953 to 1980, died Tuesday, September 5th, after a long illness. He was 80 years old. Professor MINEYA was a specialist in Vietnamese and historical phonology of Chinese. In 1955 he wrote a long article of "Annamese (= Vietnamese)" in the collective work Introduction to World's Languages. His magnum opus Studies in Sino-Vietnamese (1972) opened a new stage in the study of Middle Chinese phonology. His major publications are included in Middle Chinese and Sino-Vietnamese (1993), which continue to be an inspiration for younger generations. Memorial services will be held on 7th, at 18:00 and on 8th at 11:30 at the Hôjûji Temple in Tsukiji (Chûôku Tsukiji 3-17-10, tel. 03-3541-0947). Requiescat in pace.
Application forms are distributed from September 1 on for the MA / DLit. Courses as well as for the Gakushi Nyugaku (BA holders from a Japanese University to be admitted to the 3rd undergraduate year).
Volume 19 of Tokyo University Linguistic Papers is now available. See the Contents.
The 120th General Meeting of the Linguistic Society of Japan will be held at Chiba University on June 17-18. See part of the Program.
The new academic year starts with the Guidance for all the students on April 7th; 10:40 am for graduate students (MA / DLit courses), 1:10 pm for undergraduates.
The classes given by the staff (full time / part time) of the Department of Linguistics are as below. For other classes that can be taken for credits in Linguistics, see the Gakusei Binran (Bulletin).
| Mon | Tue | Wed | Thu | Fri | |
| 2 | Comparative Linguistics (Kumamoto) |
Bantu Linguistics & General Linguistics (Yukawa) |
Fieldwork Seminar I (Hayasi) [Summer] |
Indo-European Comparative Linguistics (Kumamoto) |
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| 3 | Seminar in Linguistics (Staff) |
Intro. to Linguistics (Uwano) |
Fieldwork Seminar II (Hayasi) [Summer] |
Intro. to Iranian Philology (Kumamoto) |
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| 4 | Seminar in Linguistics [additional] |
Phonetics (Uwano) |
Transitive & Causative in Japanese (Hayatsu) |
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| 5 | Intro. to Linguistics[Summer] Linguistics & Fieldwork[Winter] (Hayasi) [Komaba campus] |
Grammatical Structure of Ainu (Nakagawa) |
NB: Undergraduate / Graduate / Common
Entrance Exams (the first stage; written) in Linguistics for the MA course and for the Gakushi-Nyugaku (3rd yr. undergrad. for BA holders from a Japanese University) were held on Saturday, Jan. 22. The second stage (oral) for those who passed them will be held on Feb. 8.
The exams can be viewed below. On non-Japanese systems (Windows / Mac / UNIX) Adobe Acrobat 4 is required.
Adobe Acrobat Reader 4 (English etc.) can be downloaded free of charge from:
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