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Workshop on Ryukyu Languages and Linguistic Research

Last Day of a 3-Day workshop with 18 speakers from the U.S., Japan and France. The workshop consists of presentations by established Ryukyuanists and young specialists as well as those who have recently started to engage in the study.

Sunday, October 25, 2009
10:00 AM - 4:00 PM
Royce Hall 314
UCLA
Los Angeles, CA 90095

Please note the workshop venue has been changed for all three days!

PROGRAM

10- 10:30 Hayashi Yuka (Kyoto University), Yukinori Takubo (Kyoto University), Yosuke Igarashi (Hiroshima University), Thomas Pellard (EHESS. Paris), and Tomoyuki Kubo (Kyushu University)
On the accent system of Ikema Ryukyuan.
10:30-10:45 QA

10:45-10:55 Break

10:55-11:25 Reiko ASO, University of Tokyo
Where has the affix gone? The clitic analysis of an inflectional affix of Hateruma, Yeyama Ryukyuan

11:25-11:40 QA

11:40-11:50 Break
11:50-12:20 Shigehisa KARIMATA, The University of Ryukyus
Southern Ryukyuan sound change
**Lecturer in Japanese**
12:20-12:35 QA

12:35-2:00 Lunch

2:00-2:30 Tsuyoshi Ono, University of Alberta & Shoichi Iwasaki, UCLA
A life narrative approach for language documentation: the case of Ikema
2:30-2:45 QA:

2:45-3:00 Break

3:00-3:30 Yuka Hayashi (Kyoto University and Yukinori Takubo (Kyoto University
Kakarimusubi in Miyako Ryukyuan.
QA: 3:30-3:45
 

Cost: Free

For more information please contact

Shoichi Iwasaki
Tel: 310-794-8933
iwasaki@humnet.ucla.edu
sites.google.com/site/workshoponryukyuan/

Download File: RyukyuanLanguageProgram.doc

Sponsor(s): ILCAA, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies; Global Center for Excellence for Reconstruction of the Intimate and Public Spheres in the 21st Century Asia