The Hokkaido Linguistics Society

OFFICERS AND COMMITTEES FOR 2000

President, Hideto Hamada, Sapporo University
Vice-President, Kazuhiko Yamaguchi, Sapporo Medical University
Secretary-Treasurer, Katsunobu Izutsu, Hokkaido University of Education, Asahikawa

EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
The preceding and,
Satoshi Oku, Hokkaido University

CONSULTING COMMITTEE
Tatsuo Ogiwara, Hokkaido University
Osami Okuda, Sapporo Gakuin University

OFFICE (temporary)
English Language and Literature Office #2 (Izutsu's office)
Humanities
Faculty of Education
Hokkaido University of Education at Asahikawa
Hokumoncho 9 chome
Asahikawa city, Hokkaido
070-8621 JAPAN

The Hokkaido Linguistics Society was established in 2000 to encourage
communication, discussion, and cooperation amongst linguists working in
Hokkaido, the northernmost part of Japan, as well as between them and
linguists living and working in everywhere else. It also intends to
provide young linguists working in Hokkaido as well as in any other
part of Japan with more opportunities for publishing their studies.
The society purposes, in the short run, to provide students of different
languages, in particular those working in Hokkaido, with as many
opportunities as possible to assemble in one place in the name of language
studies. In the long run, it aims to establish a nation-wide forum for
the study of the languages native to Hokkaido, the northernmost part of
Japan, the Ainu language in particular, as well as any other language
spoken there, and to do so from various theoretical perspectives.
Japan has a long-standing tradition of making a clear distinction
between major-language studies—separately dubbed "Japanese
Linguistics," "English Linguistics," etc. and minor-language studies,
which are collectively termed "Linguistics." Although the former field
has, to a greater or lesser extent, developed cross-linguistic
perspectives as well as theoretical investigations of particular
languages, there has been little communication, discussion or cooperation
between linguists with different language specialties. Scholars in the
latter field have tended to limit their tasks to grammatical and lexical
descriptions of one particular language à la American Structuralism.
Since the Ainu language has long been studied under this latter rubric, the
interest it may have and the contribution it can make both theoretically and
cross-linguistically have not yet been properly evaluated. We are proud to
describe the establishment of the Hokkaido Linguistics Society as the first
step toward resolving these discrepancies, so well preserved in the history of
Japanese linguistic studies.




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