LSJ The 121st Meeting : Lectures and Events

Program of the 121st Meeting of the Linguistic Society of Japan

• Dates: November 25 (Sat.) and November 26 (Sun.)
• Venue: Nagoya Gakuin University
• President: Teruhito HAYATA
• Director (LSJ): Kazuhiko YOSHIDA
• Director (Local): Katsumasa SHIMIZU

Day 1 (November 25)

1. Opening Remarks
   • Opening: President
   • Greeting from the Host: Koshin KIMURA (President, Nagoya Gakuin University)
2. Public Symposium, “Quantification — Is Semantics at a Dead End?”
   Chair: Ikumi IMANI (Nagoya Gakuin University)
   • Panelists:
     • Takao GUNJI (Kobe Shoin Women’s University)
     • Taisuke NISHIGAUCHI (Kobe Shoin Women’s University)
     • Makoto KANAZAWA (The University of Tokyo)
   • General Discussion
   • Summary
3. Oral Presentations [List of Oral Presentations］
4. Reception

Day 2 (November 26)

1. Oral Presentations [List of Oral Presentations］
2. Public Symposium, “The Lineage of Japanese: Retrospective and Outlook”
   Chair: Katsumi MATSUMOTO (Professor Emeritus, University of Shizuoka)
   Commentators: Shigeru TSUCHIDA (former Professor, the University of Tokyo), Masahiro SHOGAITO (Kyoto University), Nozomi KODAMA (Kumamoto University)
   • “Austronesian Languages and Japanese” (Osamu SAKIYAMA, National Museum of Ethnology)
   • “The Altaic Languages (including Korean) and Japanese” (Yoshizo ITABASHI, Kyushu University)
   • “Tamil and Japanese” (Susumu OHNO, Professor Emeritus, Gakushuin University)
   General Discussion