Approaches to Endangered Languages in Japan and Northeast Asia:Description, Documentation and Revitalization
Date

Aug.5‐Aug.8, 2018

Venue

NINJAL Lecture Hall (10‐2, Midori‐cho, Tachikawa City, Tokyo, 190‐8561)

Sponsors National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics (NINJAL)
LingDy3 Tokyo University of Foreign Studies (TUFS)JSPS Grant‐in‐Aid for Scientific Research (S): 17H06115

Aug.5

Poster Presentations and Satellite Workshop

9:00‐10:00

Registration

10:00‐11:30

Poster session 1(The poster presentations are listed at the end of the program.)

11:30‐12:15

Workshop 1ŌHARA Yumiko (University of Hawai‘i at Hilo)“A brief introduction to the immersion classroom: A case of Hawaiian language”

12:15‐13:45

Lunch

13:45‐15:15

Poster session 2(The poster presentations are listed at the end of the program.)

15:15‐16:00

Workshop 2ŌHARA Yumiko (University of Hawai‘i at Hilo)“A brief introduction to the immersion classroom: A case of Hawaiian language”

Aug.6

Ryūkyū, Hachijō and Japanese

9:00‐9:20

Opening Remarks
TAKUBO, Yukinori (NINJAL) and NAKAYAMA, Toshihide (TUFS)

9:20‐10:20

Keynote Talk
John Whitman (Cornell University / NINJAL)“Ryūkyūan and Japanese” (tentative title)

10:20‐10:35

Coffee break

10:35‐12:40

Session 1: Ryūkyū and Hachijō

Coordinators: KARIMATA, Shigehisa (University of the Ryukyus / NINJAL) &SHIMOJI, Michinori (Kyushu University / NINJAL)KARIMATA, Shigehisa (University of the Ryukyus / NINJAL)“Comparative historical research on Ryūkyūan”
KANEDA, Akihiro (Chiba University)“Hachijō‐go, Eastern Japanese and Ryūkyūan”
SHIMOJI, Michinori (Kyushu University / NINJAL)“Typological study on Japanese”
IGARASHI, Yōsuke (Hitotsubashi Univeristy)“Accent systems in Ryūkyūan”
12:40‐13:30

Lunch

13:30‐14:45

Session 2: Revitalization in Ryūkyū
Coordinator: YAMADA, Masahiro (NINJAL)YAMADA, Masahiro (NINJAL)“Port Language Revitalization Project”
YAMAMOTO, Fumi (Kyoto City University of Arts)
ʺLinguists, community members, and designers ‐Why do we collaborate for language revitalization?ʺ
YOKOYAMA, Akiko (JSPS/NINJAL)“Action research in endangered language communities”
MATSUMURA, Yukie(Council for the Protection of Cultural Properties, China‐cho, Okinoerabu)“Language Revitalization as a Message from Ancestors”

14:45‐15:00

Coffee break

15:00‐17:00

Session 3: Japanese dialects
Coordinators: SASAKI, Kan (Ritsumeikan University / NINJAL) &KIBE, Nobuko (NINJAL)
SASAKI, Kan (Ritsumeikan University / NINJAL)“Case in Japanese dialects”
TSUDA, Satoshi (Miyagi University of Education)“Aspect and tense in Japanese dialects”
KIBE, Nobuko (NINJAL)“Accent systems in Japanese dialects”

17:00‐17:15

Coffee break

17:15‐18:15

Round Table

Chair: IWASAKI, Shōichi (University of California Los Angeles / NINJAL)
18:45‐

Reception Dinner

Aug.7

Ainu and Northeast Asia

9:00‐9:05

WelcomeAnna BUGAEVA (Tokyo University of Science / NINJAL)

9:05‐10:05

Keynote TalkJuha JANHUNEN (University of Helsinki)“Ainu ethnogenesis”

10:05‐10:20

Coffee break

10:20‐12:40

Session 4: The dispersal of Ainu and its contact with neighboring languages
Coordinator: Anna BUGAEVA (Tokyo University of Science / NINJAL)
NAKAGAWA, Hiroshi (Chiba University)“Major syntactic differences between Sakhalin and Hokkaido dialects of Ainu”
FUKUZAWA, Mika (Preparatory Office for National Ainu Museum)“Hokkaido Ainu Dialects: Variation from the perspective of the geographicaldistribution of vocabularies”
SATO, Tomomi (Hokkaido University) &Anna BUGAEVA (Tokyo University of Science / NINJAL)“The study of old documents of Hokkaido and Kuril Ainu: Promise andchallenges”
TANGIKU, Itsuji (Hokkaido University)“Language contact between Ainu and Northern languages”

12:40‐13:30

Lunch

13:30‐14:30

Keynote Talk
Ekaterina GRUZDEVA (University of Helsinki)“Linguistic diversity and language contact in Sakhalin Island”

14:30‐14:45

Coffee break

14:45‐16:55

Session 5: Northeast Asia
Coordinator: KUREBIO, Megumi (University of Toyama)
BAEK, Sangyub (Muroran Institute of Technology)“Ainu and Tungusic from the perspective of linguistic typology and languagecontact”

KUREBITO, Megumi (University of Toyama)“On some typological similarities and possible contact between Ainu andKoryak”
ONO, Chikako (Chiba University)“Typological features of Itelmen and its neighboring languages”
16:55‐17:10

Coffee break

17:10‐18:10

Round Table
Chair: John WHITMAN (Cornell University / NINJAL)

Aug.8

Documentation and Revitalization

9:00‐9:15

NINJAL‐UHM Session
TAKUBO, Yukinori (NINJAL) &FUKUDA, Shinʹichiro (University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa)9:15‐10:15

Keynote Talk
TAKUBO, Yukinori (NINJAL)“Mutual intelligibility as a measure for linguistic distance andintergenerational transmission”

10:15‐11:15

Keynote Talk
William OʹGRADY (University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa)“The prospects for language revitalization: A linguistic perspective”

11:15‐11:30

Coffee break

11:30‐12:30

Keynote Talk
ŌHARA, Yumiko (University of Hawai‘i at Hilo)“Revitalization and normalization of Hawaiian language: Challenges andpossible contributions to the revitalization of other languages”

12:30‐13:30

Lunch

13:30‐15:30

Session 6: Linguistic Dynamics Science 3 (LingDy3) at TUFSSHIOHARA, Asako (TUFS) & Yanti (Atma Jaya Catholic University of Indonesia)“Language documentation and revitalization in Indonesian”
NAKAYAMA, Toshihide (TUFS)“How to make language documentation and revitalization sustainable”

15:30‐15:45

Coffee break

15:45‐16:45

Keynote Talk

Mark TURIN (University of British Columbia)“Critical Lexicography: Exploring the Role of Dictionaries in Language
Revitalization”
16:45‐17:00

Closing Remarks
KIBE, Nobuko (NINJAL)

List of the poster presentations
ASO, Reiko (NINJAL) and Seunghun LEE (ICU) “Foot structure in Hateruma Yaeyama Ryukyuan: apreliminary study”
CARLINO, Salvatore (Hitotsubashi University / NINJAL) “The three-patterns accent of the dialect of Iheya,Okinawa”
CELIK, Kenan (NINJAL) “Retrieving the History of Endangered Languages”
HAYASHI, Yuka (JSPS/NINJAL) “Documenting the rich dialectal variation of Miyakoan”
HIRATA, Syu (NINJAL) “On the accented moraic oral obstruent in the Owase dialect (Mie Prefecture,Japan)”
HUANG, Elvis (Southwest Jiaotong Univertsity) “Question Particles in nDrapa”
JAROSZ, Aleksandra (University of the Ryukyus) “Non-core vocabulary cognates in Ryukyuan and Kyushu”
LIN, Chihkai “Palatalization and vowel coalescence in Jejueo”
MATSUOKA, Aoi, Hiroshi MIYAOKA and Michinori SHIMOJI (Kyushu University) “I’m afraid ofthunder: The Dative Stimulus Construction in Japanese dialects”
MOROKUMA, Yuko (The University of Tokyo) “Contrastive meaning of different case markings inAyacucho Quechua”
NAKAGAWA, Natsuko (Chiba University) “Phonology in Noheji dialect, Nambu (Aomori) and its problems”
NIELSEN, Ryler (UHM) “Uchinaaguchi and Japanese: An Analysis of Broadcast Conversation in a Podcast”
OHARA, Yumiko and Trevor SLEVIN (UHM) “Far away but so close to the heart: Okinawa Language
Revitalization Language Movement in Hawaiʻi”
SAKAI, Mika (JSPS/NINJAL) “On the Split Intransitivity in Western Kyushu Dialects”
TADA, Haruka (International Christian University) and Seunghun LEE (ICU) “PhoPhoNO project:
Converging phonetics and phonology in suggesting orthographies for understudied Tibeto-Burman
languages”
TAO, Tianlong (Tokyo University of Foreign Studies) “Differences among the three topic markers in theIkema dialects of Miyako Ryukyuan”
WICHERKIEWICZ, Tomasz (Adam Mickiewicz University) “Documenting and Revitalizing Endangered
Languages in Poland”
YAMADA, Leo (Tokyo University of Foreign Studies) “Zero-Subject in the ‘be done’ Construction in Irish”
YAMAMOTO, Tomomi (Shiiba folk entertainment Museum) “Collaborative dictionary project of Shiiba
village and NINJAL”
YOKOYAMA, Akiko (JSPS/NINJAL) “Developing Web-Based Learning Resources while Managing
Language Classes in an Endangered Language”