Lecturers: Naonori NAGAYA, TUFS
Hiroko SAITO, TUFS
Tasaku TSUNODA, Professor Emeritus,
National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics
NAGAYA introduced the languages of the Philippines which features both morphological reduplication and repetition with a syntactic function. The two differ phonologically, morphologically, syntactically and semantically; iconicity is more typically found in repetition than in reduplication.
SAITO's stated that Japanese learners of English struggle not only with phonetic segments and rhythm, but syllabic structure too. She suggested practical remedies through a comparison of syllabic structure in Japanese and English.
Professor TSUNODA's work on two-argument clauses, genitive and oblique cases, transitivity and word order is well known, but he is also active in the linguistic typology of indigenous Australian languages and efforts to record and revive the endangered language Warrongo. He urged researchers to focus on grammar, lexicon and text rather than narrow research fields, and lamented the lack of recognition in general linguistics of accomplished research by Japanese academics.
His own research into noun-concluding constructions and mermaid constructions ([clause noun copula] structures, common to around 20 Asian languages) has contributed greatly to general linguistics. (Toshihiro TAKAGAKI)
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