LINGUIST List 23.1590: Calls: Japanese, Typology, General Linguistics/Japan

LINGUIST List 23.1590
Thu Mar 29 2012 Calls: Japanese, Typology, General Linguistics/Japan Editor for this issue: Alison Zaharee <alisonlinguistlist.org>
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Date: 29-Mar-2012 From: Kyoko Kanzaki <kanzakininjal.ac.jp> Subject: NINJAL International Symposium on Valency Classes and Alternations in Japanese E-mail this message to a friend Full Title: NINJAL International Symposium on Valency Classes and Alternations in Japanese Date: 04-Aug-2012 - 05-Aug-2012 Location: Tokyo, Japan Contact Person: Kyoko Kanzaki Meeting Email: < click here to access email > Web Site: http://www.ninjal.ac.jp/english/event/symposium/ Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics; Typology Subject Language(s): Japanese Call Deadline: 11-May-2012 Meeting Description: This is to announce that NINJAL (National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics), with cooperation of Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology (MIP-EVA), holds an international conference on the valency classes and alternations in Japanese. Complementary to MPI-EVA's typological project 'Valency classes in the world's languages', this conference places special focus on the Japanese language, discussing the universal and language-particular properties of its valency classes and alternations from a variety of perspectives including syntax, semantics, morphology, history, dialects, and acquisition. Speakers (provisional): Andrej Malchukov (Mainz / MPI-EVA), guest speaker Søren Wichmann (MPI-EVA), guest speaker Masayoshi Shibatani (Rice/NINJAL), guest speaker Taro Kageyama (NINJAL) (semantics/syntax) Wesley Jacobsen (Harvard) (semantics) Hideki Kishimoto (Kobe) (syntax) Yo Matsumoto (Kobe) (semantics/morphology) Natsuko Tsujimura (Indiana) (semantics/syntax) Michiaki Saito (Tohoku) (morphology) Hideki Kobayashi (Gunma) (morphology) Yoko Yumoto (Osaka) (semantics/syntax) Makiro Tanaka (NINJAL) (corpus) Kan Sasaki (Sapporo Gakuin) (northern dialects) Michinori Shimoji (Gunma Women's U/NINJAL) (Ryukyuan dialects) John Whitman (NINJAL) and Bjarke Frellesvig (Oxford/NINJAL) (Old Japanese) Sotaro Kita (Birmingham) (first language acquisition) Keiko Murasugi (Nanzan) (first language acquisition) Yasuhiro Shirai (Pittsburg/NINJAL) (second language acquisition) Prashant Pardeshi (NINJAL) (contrastive studies) Some talks are given in English, and the others in Japanese. Call for Papers: Proposals for poster presentations by young researchers (especially, graduate students and post-doc researchers) are now being accepted. Deadline: May 11, 2012 Submission: Email your proposal including the following information to Kanzakininjal.ac.jp. 1. Title 2. Name (Specify your student status if applicable) 3. Abstract with approximately 200 words This Year the LINGUIST List hopes to raise $67,000. This money will go to help keep the List running by supporting all of our Student Editors for the coming year. See below for donation instructions, and don't forget to check out Fund Drive 2012 site! http://linguistlist.org/fund-drive/2012/ There are many ways to donate to LINGUIST! You can donate right now using our secure credit card form at https://linguistlist.org/donation/donate/donate1.cfm Alternatively you can also pledge right now and pay later. To do so, go to: https://linguistlist.org/donation/pledge/pledge1.cfm For all information on donating and pledging, including information on how to donate by check, money order, or wire transfer, please visit: http://linguistlist.org/donation/ The LINGUIST List is under the umbrella of Eastern Michigan University and as such can receive donations through the EMU Foundation, which is a registered 501(c) Non Profit organization. Our Federal Tax number is 38-6005986. These donations can be offset against your federal and sometimes your state tax return (U.S. tax payers only). For more information visit the IRS Web-Site, or contact your financial advisor. Many companies also offer a gift matching program, such that they will match any gift you make to a non-profit organization. Normally this entails your contacting your human resources department and sending us a form that the EMU Foundation fills in and returns to your employer. This is generally a simple administrative procedure that doubles the value of your gift to LINGUIST, without costing you an extra penny. Please take a moment to check if your company operates such a program. Thank you very much for your support of LINGUIST! Read more issues\|LINGUIST home page\|Top of issue

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