Meetings

The 7th meeting: Report (Japanese)

Date /Time: Sun 11 Feb 2024 14:00–18:00

Venue: ILCAA room 302, Online 


1. Kyoko KOGA (ILCAA Joint researcher, Kochi University)
“On the so-called 'stative forms' in Akan”

2. Shuichiro NAKAO (ILCAA Joint researcher, Osaka University)
“Can Arabic Creole be a counterexample of the monogenetic theory of pidgins”

3. Daisuke SHINAGAWA (ILCAA)
“A tentative questionnaire for the investigation of the morphosyntactic variation of Swahili Inland varieties”

4. All participants
“General discussions: towards the project publication in 2024”

The 6th meeting/ International workshop : Report (Japanese)

Date /Time: Sat 4 Nov 2023 13:00–18:00

Venue: ILCAA room 303, Online 


Daisuke SHINAGAWA (ILCAA)
“Introduction: Linguistic description in translingual ecology in Africa”

1. Andries COETZEE (ILCAA Joint Researcher, University of Michigan)
“Patagonian Afrikaans: Identity and History in a Bilingual Speech Community”

2. Nico NASSENSTEIN (ILCAA Joint Researcher/ Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz)
“The role of Lingala in Eastern Congo’s Swahili ecologies and young speakers’ repertoires (Goma/Lubumbashi)”

3. Sayaka KUTSUKAKE (ILCAA Joint Researcher/Tohoku Gakuin University)
“Review of recent studies on multilingual practices in Africa and future perspectives”

4. Janika KUNZMANN (Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz)
“What is Mbum and what is not? Addressing multi- and translingualism in the creation of a reference grammar”

The 5th meeting : Report (Japanese)

Date /Time: Sat 2 Sept 2023 15:00–18:00

Venue: ILCAA room 302, Online 


1. Kyoko KOGA (ILCAA Joint researcher, Kochi University)
“Syntactic alternation of possessive and existential sentences in Akan”

2. Shigeki KAJI (ILCAA Joint researcher/ Kyoto Sangyo University)
“Texts in nonliterate languages, in particular focus on taboo expressions of the Nyoro of West Uganda”


3. All participants
General discussions on the planned international WS and publication

The 4th meeting : Report (Japanese)

Date /Time: Sat  11 Mar 2023 15:00–18:00

Venue: Online 


1. Junko KOMORI (ILCAA Joint researcher, Osaka University)
“Typological features in Bambara”

2. Kumiko MIYAZAKI (ILCAA Joint researcher, State Universit of Zanzibar)
“One language, one translation?: Many translations yielded by multilingualism”

3. All participants
General discussions: perspectives on the final year of the project including publication

The 3rd meeting Report (Japanese)

Date /Time: Sat 8 Oct 2022 14:00–18:00

Venue: Room 302 @ ILCAA + Online 


Session-1: 14:00–14:40
1.  Kazuhiro KAWACHI (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Keio University)
“Toward descriptive studies of Eastern African languages that contribute to speaker communities”

2. Motomichi WAKASA (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Atomi University)
“Aspects of verbal nouns in Wolaytta”

3. Kyoko KOGA (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Kochi University)
“Information structure and prosody in Akan”

Session-2: 15:00–15:40
4. Maya ABE (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Osaka University)

“Relative clauses in Bantu G20”


5. Daisuke SHINAGAWA (ILCAA)

“cl.8 relatives in Kenyan Colloquial Swahili”


6. Nobuko YONEDA (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Osaka University)

“The locative topic construction in Swahili”

Session-3: 16:00–16:50
7. Yuko ABE (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Lanzhou University)
“The clan system (Mulahilo) in Bende”

8. Makoto FURUMOTO (ILCAA Junior Research Fellow)
“Considering social situations in Zanzibar from a viewpoint of Swahili dialects (Interim)”

9. Katsuhiko SHIOTA (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Osaka University)
“A brief report on recent research outcomes”

10. Shuichiro NAKAO (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Osaka University)
“Describing norms: a case of metalinguistic activities in Juba Arabic discourse”

Session-4: 17:10–18:00
11. All participants
General discussions (mainly on expected project outcomes)

The 2nd meeting : Report (Japanese)

Date /Time: Sat 4 Dec 2021 14:30–17:00

Venue: Online meeting

1. Shuichiro NAKAO (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Osaka University)
“Linguistic description of bilingualism: Three case studies of bilingual description”

2. All participants
General discussions

The 1st meeting : Report (Japanese)

Date/Time: Sat 17 Jul 2021 15:00–18:00

Venue: Online meeting

1. Daisuke SHINAGAWA (ILCAA)
“Translingual situation in Africa revisited: based on Lüpke and Storch (2013)”

2. Shigeki KAJI (ILCAA joint researcher, Kyoto Sangyo University)
“A typological analysis on the linguistic means by which people speaking different languages form a unified communication field: with special reference to the multilingual situations in western Uganda”

3. All participants
General discussions