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Graduate School Faculty of Arts and Letters Tohoku University

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Assistant Professor NAGASAKI Iku

Affiliations :

  • Graduate School Faculty of Arts and Letters
  • Division of Department of Integrated Human Sciences
  • Psychology and Linguistics Course
  • Department of Linguistics

Documentation and Description of Indigenous Languages in Northeast Siberia, Russia

I research the Yukaghir languages of Northeast Siberia. It is easy to assume that Russian is the only language spoken in Russia, but the region is home to 47 to 48 indigenous groups who have lived there since before the Russian expansion to the East. Most of these are minority groups with populations under 5,000.

I have been documenting various linguistic features by visiting villages to collect and transcribe vocabulary and texts from native speakers. In recent years, my research has also expanded to include linguistic change and the influence of surrounding languages, utilizing data from historical records.

  • Research, History
  • Books, papers, etc.
  • Personal History
    Education: Graduated from the Faculty of Letters, Chiba University. Completed the Master's program in the Graduate School of Letters, Chiba University. Completed doctoral-level coursework at the Graduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Chiba University.

    Professional Experience: Held positions as a Researcher at the Institute of Asian and African Studies (Tokyo University of Foreign Studies) and the National Institute for Japanese Language and Culture, and later as a Designated Lecturer at the Faculty of Letters and Graduate School of Humanistic Studies, Nagoya University, before my current position.
    Degree
    Ph.D. in Literature
    Field
    Linguistics
    Research Subject
    Investigation into Language Contact Phenomena in Northeast Siberian Languages
    Keywords
    Yukaghir languages, Descriptive linguistics, Siberia, Linguistic typology, Language contact
    Affiliation
    Linguistic Society of Japan, Japan Association of Siberian Studies, Japan Association of Northern Language Studies
  • Books
    Kolyma Yukaghir Texts. (Project Report of the Grant-in Aid for Scientific Research (C) "Development of and Linguistic Research with Corpora of Siberian Indigenous Languages", Nagoya University, 2023).

    Shiberia-senjuumin no shokutaku [Bon appétit, Siberia : 35 essays](in Japanese) (Tokai University Press, 2016）
    Academic Papers
    Yukagiirushogo ni okeru hen-yookaku [Transformative-Essive Case in Yukaghir Languages] (in Japanese). Northern Language Studies, 16: 57-75. 2026.

    Hokutoo shiberia no suushi ni okeru kahoo no hyoogen [Additive Expressions in the Numeral Systems of the Northeast Siberian Languages] (in Japanese). Northern Language Studies, 13: 171-191. 2023.

    The Focus Construction in Early Modern Kolyma Yukaghir. Gengo Kenkyu, 154: 123-152. 2018.

Research

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