Selected talks

The Diachronic Typology of Differential Argument Marking site
Universität Konstanz, 5-6 April 2014
 Bjarke Frellesvig, Stephen Wright Horn, Yuko Yanagida "Differential Object Marking in Old Japanese: A corpus based study" presentation

 

East Asian Lunch Seminar, Institute for Oriental and Cultural Studies
University of Oslo, 5 March 2014
 Bjarke Frellesvig "Why Romanize Japanese? Introducing the Oxford Corpus of Old Japanese" abstract | presentation

 

East Asian Linguistics Seminar site
University of Oxford, 4 March 2014
  Kerri L Russell and Peter Sells "The syntax of mood constructions in Old Japanese: A corpus based study" abstract | presentation

 

International Symposium on Polysynthesis in the World’s Languages 国際シンポジウム 「世界の言語における複統合性」 site
National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics, 20-21, 2014
 Kerri L Russell, John Whitman, and Yuko Yanagida "Was Old Japanese a polysynthetic language?" presentation

 

Oriental Institute Methodology Seminar
Oriental Institute, 21 February 2014
 Kerri L Russell "Digital Humanities in Oriental Studies" presentation

 

日本語およびアジア諸言語における複合動詞・複雑動詞の謎 / Mysteries of Verb-Verb Complexes in Asian Languages site
National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics, 14-15 December 2013
 Bjarke Frellesvig "Mysteries of Verb Verb complexes in Old Japanese" presentation

 

Kobe University Brussels Workshop
Kobe University Brussels European Centre, 7 November 2013
 Bjarke Frellesvig "The Oxford Corpus of Old Japanese" presentation

 

ICHL21: International Conference on Historical Linguistics site
University of Oslo, 5-9 August 2013
 Bjarke Frellesvig, Stephen Wright Horn, Yuko Yanagida "Differential object marking in Old Japanese: A corpus based study" presentation
 Kerri L Russell and Peter Sells "The syntax of mood constructions in Old Japanese: A corpus based study" presentation
 Zixi You "Syntax and semantic of split intransitivity in Japanese: A comparative study of Old Japanese and Modern Japanese" presentation

 

「日本列島と周辺諸言語の類型論的・比較歴史的研究 音韻再建班」研究発表会 (Research seminar: Typological and Historical/Comparative Research on the Languages of the Japanese Archipelago and their Environs) site
Waseda University, 29 July 2013
 Bjarke Frellesvig "Issues in the diachronic phonology of the onset consonants of Japanese" presentation

 

「通時コーパスの設計」研究発表会 (Research seminar: Design of diachronic corpora) site
National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics, 28 July 2013
 Bjarke Frellesvig, Stephen Wright Horn, Yuko Yanagida "The Oxford Corpus of Old Japanese and differential object marking in Old Japanese" presentation

 

HiCor Meeting site
University of Oxford, 15 May 2013
 Kerri L Russell "The Oxford Corpus of Old Japanese" presentation

 

East Asian Linguistics Seminar site
University of Oxford, 5 March 2013
 Bjarke Frellesvig "A diachronic perspective on early Japanese adjectival morphology: Some more pre-Old Japanese copulas" abstract | presentation

 

HiCor Workshop site
University of Oxford, 1 March 2013
 Bjarke Frellesvig, Stephen Wright Horn, and Kerri L Russell "The Oxford Corpus of Old Japanese" presentation

 

琉球諸語と古代日本語に関する比較言語学的研究/Workshop on Old Japanese and Ryukyuan Languages site
Kyoto University, 19-20 February 2013
 Kerri L Russell "Motion verbs in Eastern Old Japanese: A corpus based study" paper | presentation

 

East Asian Linguistics Seminar site
University of Oxford, 15 January 2013
 Stephen Wright Horn and Kerri L Russell "Null Pronouns in Old Japanese: A study of Concessive, Conditional, and Provisional clauses" abstract | presentation

 

AHRC International Placement Scheme Showcase site
University of Westminster, London, 16 November 2012
 Kerri L Russell "Lexical Representation of Argument Realization Patterns in Pre-modern Japanese: An IPS Research Project" presentation

 

Seminar presentation for the British Association of Teachers of Japanese (BATJ)
Japan Foundation, London, 10 November 2012
 Stephen Wright Horn "Wa/mo/ga/zero" presentation

 

NINJAL International Symposium on Valency Classes and Alternations in Japanese site
National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics, 4-5 August 2012
 Bjarke Frellesvig and John Whitman "The historical source of the bigrade (nidan) transitivity alternations in Japanese (ニ段活用に現れる自・他交替 の通時起源について)" presentation

 

通時コーパスプロジェクト・オックスフォード大VSARPJプロジェクト合同シンポジウム（NINJAL Diachronic Corpus Project – Oxford VSARPJ Project Joint Symposium　Corpus Based Studies of Japanese Language History） site
National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics, 30-31 July 2012
 Bjarke Frellesvig "オックスフォード上代日本語コーパスについて (The Oxford Corpus of Old Japanese)" presentation
 Stephen Wright Horn "On accusative case marking in Old Japanese (上代日本語の対格表示について)" presentation
 Kerri L Russell "Demonstration of the Oxford corpus of Old Japanese (オックスフォード上代日本語コーパスのデモンストレーション)" presentation
 Kerri L Russell "Noun incorporation in Old Japanese (上代日本語における名詞抱合について)" presentation
 Peter Sells "On null pronouns in Old Japanese (上代日本語のゼロ代名詞)" presentation
 Daniel Trott "On tense and aspect in Old Japanese (上代日本語のテンスとアスペクト)" presentation

 

Invited Lecture: Tōhoku University
Tōhoku University, 5 July 2012
 Bjarke Frellesvig "On 'Modern (Standard) Japanese' within the history of the Japanese language" abstract

 

Invited Lecture: Osaka University
Osaka University, 2 July 2012
 Bjarke Frellesvig "The verb suru 'to do' in Old Japanese"

 

NINJAL Colloqium site
National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics, 29 May 2012
 Bjarke Frellesvig "上代日本語の「スル」について ：　コーパスによる研究 [On the verb suru ‘do’ in Old Japanese: A corpus based study]" presentation

 

8th Workshop on Altaic Formal Linguistics site
Stuttgart, Germany, 18-20 May 2012
 Bjarke Frellesvig, Stephen W Horn, Kerri L Russell, and Peter Sells "Provisional and Conditional Clauses in Old Japanese" abstract | presentation

 

East Asian Linguistics Seminar site
University of Oxford, 7 February 2012
 Bjarke Frellesvig "On Modern Standard Japanese within the history of the Japanese language" abstract | presentation

 

Invited Lecture: University of York
University of York, 1 February 2012
 Bjarke Frellesvig "The verb 'to do' (suru) in Old Japanese: A corpus based study" presentation | handout

 

AHRC Showcase Event: International Placement Scheme site
University College London, 15 December 2011
 Stephen Wright Horn "NIHU Scholarship at NINJAL 2010-2011", NIHU/AHRC Award Holder presentation presentation

 

General Linguistics Seminar
University of Oxford, 21 November 2011
 Bjarke Frellesvig "The verb 'to do' (suru) in Old Japanese: A corpus based study" presentation | handout

 

Oriental Institute Faculty Research Presentations
Oriental Institute, 17 November 2011
 Stephen Wright Horn and Kerri L Russell "AHRC: 'Verb semantics and argument realization in pre-modern Japanese' and the Oxford Corpus of Old Japanese" presentation

 

Two invited lectures
16 November at Newcastle University and 11 November 2011 at Universität Zürich
 Bjarke Frellesvig "On Modern Japanese within the history of the Japanese language" presentation

 

DiaSynCorp Workshop
Reykjavik, Iceland, 5-6 November 2011
 Bjarke Frellesvig "Introduction of the research project 'Verb semantics and argument realization in pre-modern Japanese' and the Oxford Corpus of Old Japanese" presentation

 

BAJS Workshop - Japanese Language and Japanese Studies site
Nissan Institute, St. Antony’s College, Oxford, 8 September 2011
 Bjarke Frellesvig, Stephen Wright Horn, Kerri L Russell, and Zixi You "Panel: Corpus based studies of Japanese grammar" presentation

 

The 13th International Conference of EAJS site
Tallinn University, Tallinn, Estonia, 24-27 August 2011
 Stephen Wright Horn and Kerri L Russell "Semantic roles and case marking in Old Japanese" presentation
 Zixi You "Manifestations of split intransitivity in Old Japanese: A corpus-based study" presentation
 John Whitman "A comparison of glossing traditions in Japan and Korea"

 

20th International Conference on Historical Linguistics (ICHLXX) site
National Museum of Ethnology, Osaka, Japan, 25-30 July 2011
 Bjarke Frellesvig, Plenary Talk, "Corpus Based Studies in Japanese Historical Syntax: On the verb suru 'do' in Old Japanese" presentation handout
 Bjarke Frellesvig, Stephen Wright Horn, and Kerri L Russell "Null Arguments in Pre-modern Japanese" presentation
 John Whitman "Nominalization height and syntactic change"
 John Whitman "Work on the Genetic Relation of Japanese and Korean"
 Yuko Yanagida "Genitive subjects and nominalization in Japanese: An historical perspective"

 

Hiroshima University: Special Lecture
Hiroshima University, Hiroshima, Japan, 18 May 2011
 Kerri L Russell "「通時辞書の構築について」(Constructing a diachronic dictionary)" presentation

 

第４５回　NINJAL（国語研）サロン (45th NINJAL Salon) site
National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics (国立国語研究所), Tachikawa City, Tokyo, Japan, 10 May 2011
 Kerri L Russell "「通時コーパスで使用する辞書の構築について」(Constructing a dictionary for use with a diachronic corpus)" presentation

 

Three Invited Lectures
11 April at Kobe University, 12 April at Osaka University, and 13 April 2011 at Kyoto University
 Bjarke Frellesvig "A diachronic perspective on early Japanese adjectival morphology: Some more pre-Old Japanese copulas" presentation

 

Hiroshima University, Department of Education: Special Lecture
Hiroshima University (広島大学), Higashi Hiroshima, Japan, 25 January 2011
 Stephen Wright Horn "万葉集のコーパスから見たいもの (Queries for a Corpus of the Man'yōshū)" presentation

 

National Institute for the Humanities (NIHU) Scholarship, Japan 2010/11: Research Presentation
National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics (国立国語研究所), Tachikawa City, Tokyo, Japan, 20 January 2011
 Stephen Wright Horn "上代日本語のコーパスにおける意味役割の付与 (Assigning Semantic Roles in a Corpus of Old Japanese)" presentation

 

West Oxford Academy site
West Oxford Community Association, 16 November, 2010
 Kerri L Russell "Pre-Modern Japanese Syntax: A Corpus Based Study" presentation

 

XXIIIe Journées de linguistique de l'Asie Orientale site
Paris, France, 1-2 July 2010
 Stephen Wright Horn, Kerri L Russell, and Bjarke Frellesvig "Verb semantics & argument realization in premodern Japanese: A preliminary study of verbal compounds" presentation

 

Japanese Times Now Past — International Conference on Premodern Japan
Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany, 11-12 June 2010
 Kerri L Russell "Argument structure in Old Japanese: A corpus based study" presentation

 

Japan Research Centre Seminar Programme site
SOAS, 17 March 2010
 Bjarke Frellesvig, Stephen Wright Horn, Kerri L Russell, and Peter Sells "Introducing the project 'Verb Semantics and Argument Realization in Pre-Modern Japanese'" presentation

 

East Asian Linguistics Seminar site
University of Oxford, 9 February 2010
 Stephen Wright Horn "Semantic constraints on the 'subject raising to object' (or 'ECM') construction in Japanese" presentation

 

Oxford Corpora Group meeting
University of Oxford, 4 February 2010
 Kerri L Russell "Verbal Semantics and Argument Realization in Pre-modern Japanese: An Introduction" presentation

 

East Asian Linguistics Seminar site
University of Oxford, 2 February 2010
 Kerri L Russell "A Brief Overview of Ryukyuan Morphophonemics" presentation

 

Le Centre de recherches linguistiques sur l'Asie orientale
Paris, France, 2 November 2009
 Bjarke Frellesvig "A diachronic perspective on early Japanese morphology: Evidence for reconstructing (at least) two more copulas in pre-Old Japanese" presentation

 

October 2009 British Association for Teaching Japanese as a Foreign Language Seminar site
The Japan Foundation London Language Centre, 24 October 2009
 Kerri L Russell "Towards a Reconstruction of Proto-Japonic" presentation

 

National Institute for the Japanese Language Inagural Forum: Future Perspectives on Japanese Linguistics
National Institute for the Japanese Language (国立国語研究所), Tachikawa City, Tokyo, Japan, 10-12 October 2009
 Bjarke Frellesvig "Some Perspectives for the Historical Study of Japanese (日本語史研究の展望)" presentation

 

Early Chan Manuscripts among the Dunhuang Findings: Resources in the Mark-up and Digitation of Historical Texts conference site
University of Oslo, Norway, 28 September - 2 October 2009
 Kerri L Russell "Verbal Semantics and Argument Realization in Pre-modern Japanese: A Corpus Based Study" presentation

 

XIXth International Conference on Historical Linguistics conference site
Radboud University Nijmegen, Netherlands, 10-14 August 2009
 Yuko Yanagida "Alignment and Nominalization in Old Japanese"
 John Whitman "The Origin of the Transitivity Alternations in Proto-Japanese"
 John Whitman, Plenary, "Radical Reanalysis and Syntactic Change"

 

Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany, 29 June 2009
 Bjarke Frellesvig "A diachronic perspective on early Japanese morphology: Some more Japanese copulas" handout

 

Conference on Ancient Japan conference site
Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany, 23-25 January 2009
 Kerri L Russell "Contraction and Monophthongization in Eastern Old Japanese" presentation
 Janick Wrona "Some Thoughts on Relative Clauses in Japanese" presentation

 

18th Japanese/Korean Linguistics Conference conference site
City University of New York, 14 November 2008
 Bjarke Frellesvig & John Whitman "Prenominal Complementizers and the Derivation of Complex NPs in Japanese and Korean" handout