ISNLC 2015

International Symposium on Northern Languages and Cultures 2015

January 24-25 2015 (Hokkaido University)

Program

January 24, 10:00-16:50

Opening

Session 1: Cultural inheritance and indigenous language documentation

  1. Ethnic Dance: Way of Conservation and Actualization of Dancing Culture in Chukotka
    Vladislav Rintytegin (Chukchi Versatile College)
  2. Project of Creating Corpora of Small Languages in the Institute of linguistics, Moscow
    Valentin Gusev (Institute of linguistics, Russian Academy of Sciences)

Session 2: Language data in Ethnographic materials

  1. Koryak Vocabulary Collected by S.P. Krasheninnikov
    Yukari Nagayama (Center for Northern Humanities, Hokkaido University)
  2. Nivkh Old Texts Collectd at the End of the 19th Century
    Itsuji Tangiku (Center for Ainu and Indigenous Studies, Hokkaido University)
  3. Yukaghir Texts by V. I. Ioxel’son
    Iku Nagasaki (National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics)
  4. The Oldest Sakha Text by A. Ja. Uvarovskij
    Fuyuki Ebata (Niigata University)
  5. Transcription Systems in the Old Evenki Texts
    Ryo Matsumoto (Kyoto University)
  6. The Ethno-Linguistic Activities by Missionaries in Yunnan, China
    Atsushi Yamada (Japan Health Care College)

January 25, 10:30-16:50

Session 3: Documentation and Preservation of Endangered languages

  1. Acoustic investigations on unstressed vowel reduction in Nivkh
    Hidetoshi Shiraishi (Sapporo Gakuin University)
  2. A History of Language Description on Tungusic
    Sangyab Baek (Graduate School of Letters, Hokkaido University)
  3. Electronic publication of text data and sound materials
    Toshiro Tsumagari (Center for Northern Humanities, Hokkaido University)

Session 4: Ainu Language and Literature

  1. Marsh Monsters in Ainu Folklore
    Haruna Yazaki (Graduate School of Letters, Hokkaido University)
  2. An Issue of Ainu Oral Literature: Aeoynakamuy and Yayresuupo as Demi-gods
    Jirota Kitahara (Center for Ainu and Indigenous Studies, Hokkaido University)
  3. アイヌの自叙体文芸における文法と構成の技法
    Osami Okuda (Sapporo Gakuin University)
  4. Predicate Constraints of Auxiliary Verb Constructions in the Saru dialect of Ainu
    Nobuhisa Kishimoto (Graduate School of Letters, Hokkaido University)
  5. Documentation of the Ainu Language: Present Situation and Problems
    Yasushige Takahashi (Center for Ainu and Indigenous Studies, Hokkaido University)
  6. アイヌ語の抱合における残置(stranding)回避手段としての充当態(applicative)
    Tomomi Sato (Center for Northern Humanities, Hokkaido University)

Closing

Organized by Center for Northern Humanities (Hokkaido University), Center for Ainu and Indigenous Studies (Hokkaido University)
Organizing committee: Yukari Nagayama and Itsuji Tangiku

Supported by Center for Northern Humanities (Hokkaido University), Center for Ainu and Indigenous Studies (Hokkaido University), JSPS Invitational Fellowship Program for Research in Japan (Long-term) L-14504 (Valentin Gusev), Slavic-Eurasian Research Center “Project-Based Collaborative Research on the Slavic Eurasian Region (former Soviet Union and Eastern Europe) in Fiscal Year 2014” (Yukari Nagayama).