8:30-9:00 |
Registration |
9:00-9:05 |
Welcome
SASAKI Shirō
(Deputy Director-General, National Museum of Ethnology) |
9:05-9:25 |
An Outsider's View of Japanese Comparative Linguistics: Past, Present
and Future
KIKUSAWA Ritsuko (National Museum of Ethnology) |
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Session 1: Historical Linguistics in the Asia-Pacific Region |
9:30-10:10 |
Sino-Tibetan-Austronesian: Making Sense of Non-final Syllables
Laurent SAGART (École des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales) |
10:10-10:50 |
Linguistic Interaction in South China: The Case of Chinese,
Tai and
Miao-Yao
Weera OSTAPIRAT (Mahidol University and Academia Sinica) |
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Session 2: Identifying the Position of Japanese |
11:05-11:45 |
Why Japonic Is Not Demonstrably Related to ‘Altaic’or Korean
Alexander VOVIN (University of Hawai‘i) |
11:45-12:25 |
No Rush to Judgment: The Case against Japanese as an Isolate
J. Marshall UNGER (Ohio State University) |
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13:25-14:05 |
Japanese and the Transeurasian Languages
Martine ROBBEETS (University of Leuven and University of Mainz) |
14:05-14:45 |
Work on the Genetic Relation of Japanese and Korean
John WHITMAN (Cornell University and National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics) |
15:00-15:40 |
The Historical Position of the Ryukyuan Languages
Thomas PELLARD (JSPS Postdoctoral Fellow, Kyoto University) |
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Session 3: Evaluation and Discussion |
15:45-16:25 |
Comments on the Presentations in Sessions 1 and 2
Lyle CAMPBELL (University of Hawai‘i) |
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16:40-17:50 |
Discussion (Chair: Lawrence A. REID)
Campbell, Kikusawa, Ostapirat, Pellard, Robbeets, Sagart, Unger, Vovin,
Whitman
Selected questions from the floor |
17:50-18:00 |
Concluding Remarks
KAGEYAMA Tarō (Director, National Institute for Japanese Language and
Linguistics; President, The Japanese Society for Linguistics)
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