Upon the incident that took place in the Summer Institute 2018, the LSJ has issued a statement.

The page for "The 158th Meeting of the Linguistic Society of Japan" was updated. It contains information about the childcare facilities.

Information about the 158th Meeting of the Linguistic Society of Japan was updated (Information about the childcare facilities and program uploaded!). Please check the webpage for the 158th Meeting.

The Linguistic Society of Japan is delighted to announce the winners of the Best Presentation Award for the 157th Annual Meeting (Kyoto University, November 2018).
・AOI, Hayato
"Plosives in Okinawa-Ie Ryukyuan"

・EBATA, Fuyuki
"Use in the negative sentence of the Tyvan interrogative suffix: explanation from egophoricity"

・HIRAKO,Tatsuya
"Historical study on the vowels in Izumo-Nita Japanese"

For details, refer to the following URL.
[Presentation Award LSJ 157]

(1) Dates and Venue: June 22nd (Sat) and 23rd (Sun), 2019, Hitotsubashi University (Kunitachi-shi, Tokyo)
(2) Call for papers For details about abstract submission, see the following webpage.
Rules and Guidelines for Presentations
(3) Assistance at the 158th Meeting If you plan to attend this meeting and need any assistance such as a sign language interpreter or notetaker, please contact the LSJ office (lsj@nacos.com) as soon as possible. The deadline is May 17th, 2019.
(4) Childcare facilities at the 158th Meeting of LSJ Childcare facilities are being organized. Details will be announced on this page. Applications should be sent to lsj.childcare@gmail.com by May 31st, 2019.

Commemorative Events is updated.

Information about the 157th Meeting of the Linguistic Society of Japan was updated (Handbook uploaded! / A presentation is cancelled). Please check the webpage for the 157th Meeting.

The aid for Enlightenment and education project for language diversity is a fund established by the Linguistic Society of Japan as of January 2011. The aim of this aid is to support the members to make the result of their research projects on language diversity available to the public. Request for proposals for the fiscal year 2019 has opened; see below for the details.The application deadline is February 28. LINK (Japanese only)

Call for two positions (associate professor on language communication/ associate professor on second language acquisition) at the Research Faculty of Media and Communication at Hokkaido University; the application deadline is May 7, 2019. For details, see here (in Japanese).

The Shinmura Izuru Memorial Foundation is soliciting application for the Izuru Shinmura Award, Izuru Shinmura Grant-in-Aid, and the publication funds; the submission deadline is June 30, 2019. For details, see the link (Japanese only)

A job opening for the position of associate professor/professor of Russian language/Slavic languages at the Graduate School of Human and Environmental Studies at Kyoto University; the application deadline is Friday, May 31, 2019. For details, see here (in Japanese).

A job opening at Joetsu University of Education; The application deadline is 5 p.m., Thursday, June 13, 2019. For details, see here (in Japanese).

A job opening at Kobe City College of Nursing; The application deadline is Thursday, February 28, 2019. For details, see here or here (in Japanese)

Application open for the academic use of NHK archives. Please see the link for the details (Japanese) (Application deadline: March 29, 2019).

The Linguistic Society of America (LSA) announces that the application of Yuki Kuroda Fellowship is now open for the student (undergraduate/graduate) members considering participation to the 2019 LSA summer institute, to be held from June 24 to July 19 at University of California, Davis.

The fellowship, which is reserved for linguistic students with LSA membership from Japan, covers tuition, travel, and lodging. The application deadline is February 21, 2019. For details, see the LINK.

A job opening at the General Education Center at Tottori University of Environmental Studies; the application deadline is January 21, 2019. For details, see here.

For details.