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Círculo de Lingüística Aplicada a la Comunicación 54, 158-160 
http://www.ucm.es/info/circulo/no54/tokyo.pdf  
 
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Universidad Complutense de Madrid. ISSN 1576-4737. http://www.ucm.es/info/circulo 
TOKYO 2013: VERB-VERB COMPLEXES. COMPOUND VERBS AND COMPLEX 
VERBS IN ASIAN LANGUAGES 国立国語研究所 国際シンポジウム2013 
NINJAL, Tokyo December 14-15 
http://www.ninjal.ac.jp/vvsympo/en/  
 
Deadline for abstract submission 
August 1, 2013 
Poster presentations are welcome dealing with theoretical as well as descriptive issues 
surrounding verb-verb complexes in Japanese and other Asian languages. No preference 
is given for theoretical approaches, including morphology, semantics, syntax, language-
particular studies, cross-linguistic or typological orientations, historical development, 
and dialectal variation. In formulating the topic and abstract, applicants should take a 
look at the position paper  which explains the major issues addressed in this conference. 
Papers dealing with the second (or first) language acquisition of Japanese compound 
verbs are welcome. 
Aims of the conference 
The fundamental objective of the conference is to straighten out the state-of-the-art 
issues surrounding the compound and complex verbs in individual languages by 
locating them in a larger context of similar phenomena in other Asian languages. The 
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development of a more precise distribution of such verb-verb complexes in Asian 
languages is expected to lead to a substantial contribution from Asia to the typological 
studies in the West, where the significance of such compound verbs is not adequately 
appreciated (for example, WALS does not contain information on them). 
It is well known that Japanese is marvelously abundant in compound and complex verbs 
consisting of two verbs, as in nage-ireru lit. 'throw (tr.) + put into (tr.)' = 'throw (a thing) 
into (a place)' and tabe-te simau lit. 'eat-GERUNDIVE put.away' = 'finish eating / eat it 
all and leave nothing'. The two-day conference, held as an event in NINJAL's 
international symposium series, aims at probing the mysteries involved with the 
linguistic properties, origins, and development of such Japanese V-V complexes and the 
corresponding or nearly corresponding V-V sequences in languages of continental Asia 
from both language-internal and areal-typological perspectives. 
These two perspectives are motivated by the fact that V-V complexes are considered a 
distinctive hallmark of most Asian languages, and not just of Japanese. Because of this, 
Indo-Aryan languages as well as Korean and other East Central and Southeast Asian 
languages will be brought to bear on the issues pertaining to Japanese, whereby a much 
deeper understanding of the phenomena is expected to emerge than when Japanese 
alone or Hindi alone, for example, is analyzed. 
Organizing Committee 
Taro Kageyama, Prashant Pardeshi, and Peter Hook 
 
Plenary speakers 
Dec. 14: Languages of Japan 
Taro Kageyama (NINJAL), Keynote lecture: Overview of the issues in Japanese 
Yoko Yumoto (Osaka University): V-V compound verbs in contemporary Japanese 
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Yo Matsumoto (Kobe University): V-te V complex verbs in contemporary Japanese 
Masayoshi Shibatani (Rice University / NINJAL): V-V and V-te V verb complexes in 
Japanese and Ryukyuan 
Bjarke Frellesvig (University of Oxford): Old and Middle Japanese 
Anna Bugaeva (NINJAL) and Hiroshi Nakagawa (Chiba University): V-V complexes in 
Ainu 
Poster presentations（ See below for application. ） 
Miriam Butt (University of Konstanz), Plenary talk 
Dec. 15: Languages outside Japan 
Peter Hook (University of Virginia / NINJAL), Keynote lecture: Overview of the issues 
in languages outside Japan 
E. Annamalai (University of Chicago): Tamil (and other Dravidian languages) 
Bettina Zeisler (University of Tubingen): Tibetan 
John Whitman (NINJAL): Korean 
Prashant Pardeshi (NINJAL): Marathi and Japanese 
Yu Kuribayashi (Okayama University): Turkic languages 
Shen Li (Doshisha University): Chinese 
Hisanari Yamada (Otaru University of Commerce): Avar 
Andrey Shluinsky (Institute of Linguistics, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow): 
Altaic languages. 
Published: May 31, 2013 
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