Nagoya Circle of Language and Cognition

4th meeting (January 12, 2026)

• Shogo Mizuno (Leipzig University) "[TBA]"

• Kuniyoshi Kataoka (Aichi University) "[TBA]"

3rd meeting (September 16, 2025)

• Ayaka Oshidami (Nagoya Aoi University): "Shōgyō katsudō ni okeru [dōshi kihonkei + meishi] gata kōbun no hirogari ni kansuru shiron" [Notes on the upsurge of the [verb + noun]-type construction in commercial activities]

• Hirotaka Nakajima (Osaka University): "Eigo meishi yurai er meishi no kōpasu kenkyū: Shintai bui meishi to shizenbutsu meishi no hikaku o tōshite" [A corpus-based study on noun-based er-nominals in English: The case of body-part nouns and natural substance nouns]

2nd meeting (August 7, 2025)

• David Y. Oshima (Nagoya University): "Toward the typology of deictic motion verbs: Universals and variation in GO and COME"

• Yuqi Yin (The Graduate University for Advanced Studies, SOKENDAI): "An experimental study on Japanese and Chinese action-motion multi-verb construction and their event packaging conceptualization"

1st meeting (June 17, 2025)

• Kimi Akita (Nagoya University): "Suprasegmentals have more robust iconic effects than segments"

• Yo Matsumoto (Nagoya University of Foreign Languages/National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics): "The nature of deictic verbs in Japanese, Chinese, English, and other languages"