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Seminars/Symposia: FY2011

July, 2011

Special Seminar
Kaffeeklatsch--an informal coffee chat--with one of Southeast Asia's leading linguistics specialists
  1. Date: July 27, 2011 14:00-16:00
  2. Place:Common Building Room 409, Kyoto University
  3. Speaker: Weera Ostapirat.
  4. Associate Professor at Mahidol University, Thailand.
  5. He specializes in Southeast Asian linguistics, particularly on comparative phonology and historical reconstruction. His main interests are in the genetic relationships of the languages of East/Southeast Asian areas and the linguistic implications on the (pre)history and cultures of the respective people. His major works include Proto-Kra (Berkeley: Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area) and “Kra-Dai and Austronesian: Notes on the phonological correspondences and vocabulary distribution” (The peopling of East Asia: Putting together archaeology, linguistics, and genetics). His past experience includes a research visit at the National Museum of Ethnology, Osaka, in 2000-2001. He currently visits the Institute of Linguistics, Academia Sinica, for an investigation on the linguistic relationship between Tai and Chinese.