Collaborative Research Development Program

This program provides support for collaborative research projects focusing on fieldwork-based language description and documentation. The aim of this program is to develop and stimulate collaboration and cooperation among researchers, which are generally rare among descriptive linguists. The program supports mainly groups of junior researchers (P.D. and doctorate graduate students) in order to provide them with an opportunity to gain experience in planning and organizing a collaborative research project.

Currently the following three projects are in progress:

◎Research Project for Consice Grammatical Descriptions Based on Primary Data
https://sites.google.com/site/lingdysketch/

◎Online Text Database of Minority Languages
https://sites.google.com/site/lingdytextarchive/

◎Toward an easy access to research outcomes of Ryukyuan studies: publication of a sketch grammar and a website featuring ‘pear stories’
https://sites.google.com/site/ryukyuanlingdy/