- ◆Main Activities
- From April 2007 to March 2008
To From April 2006 to March 2007
To From April 2008 to March 2009
Open Forums & Symposiums
July 1st
Open Forum (Maruzen Bookstore, Tokyo)
"The Dawn of European Modern Art"
- "Chaucer and Manuscripts with Attractive Miniatures"
- Tomonori Matsushita (Senshu University)
- "Vivid Emotional Expression - Rembrandt and Tronie"
- Yoriko Kobayashi (Mejiro University)
July 14th & 15th
International Open Forum (Kanda Campus)
"The Universality of Language"
July 14th
- "Generative Grammar Meets Language Typology"
- Masaru Kajita (Emeritus, Sophia University)
- "The Consequences and Problems of the Minimalist Program"
- Shigeo Tonoike (Aoyama Gakuin University)
- "Universal 20 without the Linear Correspondence Axiom"
- Ad Neeleman (University College London)
July 15th
- "Swiping and Related Phenomena in English and Other Languages"
- Hiroshi Hasegawa (Senshu University)
- "Topic/Focus Movement as Comment/Background Making"
- Ad Neeleman (University College London)
- "Typological Change in the History of English"
- "Learnability and Change: Evidence from the History of English"
- Ian Roberts (University of Cambridge)
October 19th-21st
International Open Forum (Kanda Campus)
"Introduction to Sociolinguistics"
October 19th
- "Irish Accents of English"
- Hiroshi Miura (Senshu University)
- "Contemporary English accents and what they tell us about historical phonology"
- J. C. Wells (Emeritus, University College London)
October 20th
- "A Study on the Method of Experimental Phonetics: Linguistics Research from the Viewpoint of Audience"
- Hakutoro Jyoo (Tsukuba University)
- "Pragmatics of Politeness: Japanese Culture in Comparison with its Anglo-Saxon Counterpart"
- Sachiko Ide (Nihon Women's University)
- "Exotic Sounds: a Journey around the IPA Chart"
- J. C. Wells (Emeritus, University College London)
October 21st
- "From Truth to Trust: Development of Understanding of Intention in Verbal Communication"
- Tomoko Matsui (Primate Research Institute, Kyoto University)
- "Communication, Inference and Neuroimaging"
- Kunihiko Imai (Emeritus, Tokyo Metropolitan University)
- "Pragmatics determinants of English intonation patterns"
- J. C. Wells (Emeritus, University College London)
November 3rd & 4th
International Open Forum (Kanda Campus)
"The World of Medieval European Literature - Italy, Germany, and England"
November 3rd
- "The Quest for Elegant Ideas - The Project The Development of the Anglo-Saxon Language and Linguistic universals"
- Tomonori Matsushita (Senshu University)
- "King Arthur and the Supernatural World"
- Kimie Imura (Ex-Professor, Meisei University)
- "The Place of the Poor in the Piers Plowman Tradition"
- Helen Barr (Oxford University)
- "General Evolutionary and Typological Characteristics of the Germanic Languages"
- John Ole Askedal (University of Oslo)
November 4th
- "In Search of Decameron in Tales of Genji"
- Sukehiro Hirakawa (Emeritus, University of Tokyo)
- "Chaucer's Destruction of Troy"
- Helen Barr (Oxford University)
- "Germanic Passive Constructions"
- John Ole Askedal (University of Oslo)
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To From April 2008 to March 2009
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