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Presentation by Dr Dongsik Lim

Dr Dongsik Lim presented "Another type of evidential? A study of Korean verbal morpheme -te-" at the East Asian Linguistics Seminar on 6 March 2012. This was the final talk of the East Asian Linguistics Seminar series for 2012. (abstract | presentation)

Dr Dongsik Lim of CCHS-CSIC, Spain giving a presentation on his Korean syntax research.

Presentation by Dr Elisabeth de Boer

Dr Elisabeth de Boer (Leiden University) presented "The modern Japanese tone and/or accent systems" at the East Asian Linguistics Seminar on 28 February 2012. (abstract)

Elisabeth de Boer from Leiden discussing accent and/or tone in modern Japanese.

Presentation by Professor Sven Osterkamp

Professor Sven Osterkamp (Ruhr University Bochum) presented "Prenasalization in Japonic languages as seen in pre-modern foreign transcriptions: A look at the sources and their interpretation" at the East Asian Linguistics Seminar on 21 February 2012. (abstract)

Sven Osterkamp from the University of Bochum discussing prenasalization.

Presentation by Professor Bjarke Frellesvig

Professor Bjarke Frellesvig presented "On Modern Standard Japanese within the history of the Japanese language" at the East Asian Linguistics Seminar on 7 February 2012. (abstract | presentation)

Bjarke Frellesvig, Japanese linguist at the University of Oxford discussing the history of the Japanese language.

Presentation by Professor Bjarke Frellesvig

On 1 February 2012, Professor Bjarke Frellesvig presented "The verb 'to do' (suru) in Old Japanese: A corpus based study" at the University of York. (presentation | handout)

Presentation by Dr Jieun Kiaer

Dr Jieun Kiaer presented "One Breath Condition in Syntax: the case of Korean" at the East Asian Linguistics Seminar on 24 January 2012 (abstract | presentation)

Jieun Kiaer, Korean linguist at the University of Oxford discussing syntax.

Presentation by Professor Michael Fortescue

The East Asian Linguistics Seminar's first speaker of 2012, Professor Michael Fortescue (University of Copenhagen), presented "How old is polysynthesis in the Amur-Sakhalin-Hokkaido region?" at on 17 January 2012 (abstract | presentation).

The University of Copenhagen's Michael Fortescue talking about polysynthesis.

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New Publication

The Oxford Corpus of Old Japanese is now available online. This full poetic corpus of Old Japanese presents the original script and a phonemic transcription of all Old Japanese poetic texts.

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