Seminars/Symposia: FY2011
July, 2011
- Special Seminar
- Kaffeeklatsch--an informal coffee chat--with one of Southeast Asia's leading
linguistics specialists
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- Date： July 27, 2011 14:00-16:00
- Place：Common Building Room 409, Kyoto University
- Speaker： Weera Ostapirat.
- Associate Professor at Mahidol University, Thailand.
- 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.
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