The Linguistic Society of Japan is delighted to announce the winners of the Best Presentation Award for the 161st Annual Meeting.
＜The Best Presentation Award for the 161st Annual Meeting (Online, November 2020)＞（2 winners）
YAMAOKA Sho
"The phonological representation of diphthongs in Hanoi Vietnamese: The investigation from the acoustical perspective"
Shigeki YOSHIDA
"Number marking in Sinhala: Morphological markedness and frequency"
[Presentation Award LSJ 161]

Our new movie is uploaded to YouTube.

　本年度は役員改選の年に当たっており、会則に基づいて、2021年4月1日から向こう3年間を任期とする、会長・編集委員長・会計監査委員・評議員の選挙を実施いたします。

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We opened our YouTube channel. We released a movie of greeting by Yukinori Takubo, president, at the 161th meeting of LSJ.

The final version of the Joint Statement against "the Refusal to Appoint Members of the Science Council of Japan" (2020/12/02) has been released. See also the interview video on the Joint Statement.

The Linguistic Society of Japan is delighted to announce the winners of the Best Paper Award 2020.

＜The Best Paper Award of LSJ for the year 2020＞（2 winners）

Koichi OTAKI
“Two Routes to the Mayan VOS: From the View of Kaqchikel”, Gengo Kenkyu 156, pp.25-45(Sep., 2019), co-authored with Koji SUGISAKI, Noriaki YUSA, and Masatoshi KOIZUMI.

Naonori NAGAYA
“The Thetic/Categorical Distinction in Tagalog Revisited: A Contrastive Perspective”, Gengo Kenkyu 156, pp.47-66（Sep., 2019）
[Paper Award 2020]

The English version of the joint statement against "the Refusal to Appoint Members of the Science Council of Japan" has been released on December 2nd, 2020.

Applications are now being accepted for the 2021 “Grants-in-aid for Informational and Educational Projects on Language Diversity”. For more information, please vist here.

A job opening for a position of "jyokyo" (assistant professor) specializing in English linguistics. The application deadline is December 15, 2020. For details, click here (in Japanese).

NHK accepts application to explore their archives for academic use. The deadline for the 3rd term in 2020 is November 16th. Clic here for details (in Japanese).

A job opening for a position of assistant professor specializing in linguistics. The application deadline is October 16, 2020. For details, click here (in Japanese).

A job opening for a position of assistant professor or lecturer specializing in “Classical Chinese Philology”. The application deadline is 16:00, September 15, 2020 (JST). For details, click here (in Japanese).

A job opening at University of Shizuoka. The application deadline is September 23, 2020. For details, click here (in Japanese).

A job opening for a position of associate professor or assistant professor, with tenure or on tenure track system, of teaching Chinese course at Institute for Foreign Language Research and Education, Academy of Hiroshima University. The application deadline is 5 p.m. Japan time on September 18, 2020. For details, click here.

Applications are now being accepted for the 16th Hakuhodo Foundation Japanese Research Fellowship. For more information, please visit this site.

Professor Hans C. Boas, Director of the Linguistics Research Center at the University of Texas at Austin, is making an urgent call to Japanese linguists. Due to the financial crisis caused by the recent spread of the novel coronavirus, the University of Texas has decided to terminate its budget allocation to the center. The Linguistics Research Center develops and provides numerous language resources. According to Professor Boas, it is necessary to raise a target amount of donations by May 4 for the center to be kept alive. Please refer to the attached document for more information.