PFIH Stanford Project Meeting, July 27-28, 2009
(Presidential Fund for Innovation in the Humanities 2008-2009)
Terrace Room, Margaret Jacks Hall, Stanford University

“Noun-Modifying Constructions in Languages of Eurasia: Reshaping theoretical and geographical boundaries”

Coordinated by Yoshiko Matsumoto, Associate Professor, Department of Asian Languages

Group Members:

Central Collaborators:

Bernard Comrie - Thai, Ket

Director, Department of Linguistics, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany / Distinguished Professor of Linguistics, University of California at Santa Barbara

Yoshiko Matsumoto - Ainu, Japanese
Associate Professor, Department of Asian Languages, Stanford University

Peter Sells - Korean, Japanese, Dravidian
Professor, Department of Linguistics, The School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, UK

Collaborators:

Balthasar Bickel - Kiranti
Professor, Department of Linguistics, University of Leipzig, Germany

Anna Bugaeva - Ainu
Assistant Professor, Waseda Institute for Advanced Study, Waseda University, Japan

Ji Fang - Chinese
Member of Research Staff II, Palo Alto Research Center Incorporated (PARC)

Peter Hook - Hindi-Urdu, Marathi, Sanskrit, Eastern Shina
Professor (emeritus), Department of Linguistics and Department of Asian Languages and Cultures, University of Michigan

Kaoru Horie - Japanese
Professor, Graduate School of International Cultural Studies, Tohoku University, Japan

Elena Kalinina - Daghestanian Languages
Assistant Professor, Department of Theoretical and Applied Linguistics, Moscow State University, Russia

Jaklin Kornfilt - Turkish and Turkic Languages
Professor, Linguistic Studies, Syracuse University

Alan Hyun-Oak Kim - Korean, Japanese
Associate Professor, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale

Shin-Sook Kim - Korean
Post-Doctoral Fellow, University of Frankfurt, Germany / SOAS, University of London, UK

Stephen Matthews - Chinese / Cantonese
Associate Professor, Department of Linguistics, University of Hong Kong

Johanna Nichols - Chechen, Ingush
Professor, Department of Slavic Languages, University of California at Berkeley

Irina Nikolaeva - Ob-Ugric and Northern Samoyedic Languages
Lecturer, The School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, UK

Prashant Pardeshi - Hindi-Urdu, Marathi, Sanskrit, Eastern Shina
Lecturer, Graduate School of Humanities, Kobe University, Japan

Virginia Yip - Chinese / Cantonese
Professor, The Chinese University of Hong Kong

Graduate Student Participants:

Michelle Cheng - Japanese, Chinese, (Korean)
Chigusa Kurumada-Japanese
Xiaoman Miao - Japanese, Chinese
Fangqiong Zhan - Chinese, Japanese           


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