Upon the incident that took place in the Summer Institute 2018, the LSJ has issued a statement. (Released: 2018.11.20)

Each year, the Linguistic Society of Japan recruits “Enlightenment and Education Project on Language Diversity”. For details, please see here (in Japanese). The deadline is February 28th.

Information about the 159th Meeting of the Linguistic Society of Japan was updated (Handbook uploaded!). Please check the webpage for the 159th Meeting.
[NOTICE!]Please download the data from the website before you participate in the meeting!

We express our deepest sorrow for those who suffered from the heavy rain in northern Kyushu, typhoon No.15 and No.19. The Board of the Linguistic Society of Japan has determined that the annual membership dues for 2019 are exempted from those members who have suffered from these disasters. For details, see here.

The Linguistic Society of Japan is delighted to announce the winners of the Best Paper Award 2019 and the Best Presentation Award for the 158th Annual Meeting.

＜The Best Paper Award of LSJ for the year 2019＞（1 winner）

Keita KURABE
"Deaspiration and the Laryngeal Specification of Fricatives in Jinghpaw"
（Gengo Kenkyu（2018）No. 153, 41-55）

＜The Best Presentation Award for the 158th Annual Meeting (Hitotsubashi University, June 2019)＞（3 winners）

Masataka OGAWA
"Local animacy determines the preference for active/passive voice in Japanese: Comparison of Tokyo, Tohoku, Kansai dialect"

Aoi MATSUOKA
"A typological survey of the case-marking patterns of the experiencer construction in the Omae dialect of Miyazaki Japanese"

Uiko YANO
"Use of space for agreeing verbs in Miyakubo Sign Language of Ehime Oshima Island," co-authored with Kazumi MATSUOKA.

[Paper Award 2019]
[Presentation Award LSJ 158]

Information about the 159th Meeting of the Linguistic Society of Japan was updated (Information about the childcare facilities and program uploaded!). Please check the webpage for the 159th Meeting.

For details, please check the link.
(1) Dates and Venue: November 16th (Sat) and 17th (Sun), 2019, Nagoya Gakuin University (Atsuta-ku, Nagoya-shi, Aichi)
(2) Call for papers: August 1st -- 20th, 2019
For details, please check the link.
(3) Assistance at the 159th 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 October 11th, 2019.
(4) Childcare facilities at the 159th 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 October 25th, 2019.

The LSJ reports with regret the death of Dr. Hiruyuki Umeda, the 13th president of the LSJ (1994-1996). Dr. Umeda, passing away early in the morning of July 1, 2019, was a notable figure in the field of Korean linguistics and education. He will be remembered for his tremendous contribution to the development of the field, in particular with regard to the research and education of the Korean language, and for his devotion to the promotion of academic interactions between Japan and Korea.

A job opening at Nagoya Gakuin University; The application deadline is November 6, 2019. For details, see here (in Japanese)

A job opening at Tokyo City University; The application deadline is November 15, 2019. For details, see here (in Japanese)

A job opening at Otaru University of Commerce; The application deadline is October 25, 2019. For details, see here (in Japanese)

A job opening at National Defense Academy; The application deadline is October 31, 2019. For details, see here (in Japanese)

A job opening for a position of associate professor or assistant professor, with tenure or on tenure track system, of art of English-Japanese simultaneous interpretation at Academy of Hiroshima University (Graduate School of Integrated Arts and Sciences, Department of Studies of Human Cultures). application deadline is 5 p.m. Japan time on September 20, 2019. For details, see here (in Japanese).

The Department of Theoretical Linguistics in the Graduate School of International Cultural Studies at the Tohoku University (Sendai, Japan) invites applications for Associate Professor or Senior Assistant Professor (Tenured Faculty Position) in linguistics with an anticipated start date of April 2020. For details, see the link at our HP or at JREC-IN (both in Japanese).

Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology is seeking a full-time English and German lecturer, starting on April 1, 2020. The application deadline is October 25, 2019. For details, see the link at our HP (in Japanese) or at JREC-IN (in English).

A request for cooperation for the questionnaire on the financial situation of graduate students. If interested, please participate from the link here (Japanese only).