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| East Asian Linguistics Society | |
|---|---|
| Name | East Asian Linguistics Society |
| Abbreviation | EALiS |
| Formation | 1988 |
| Type | Academic society |
| Region served | East Asia, Southeast Asia, North America, Europe |
East Asian Linguistics Society is an academic organization dedicated to the scientific study of languages of East Asia, Northeast Asia, and adjacent areas. Founded in 1988, the society organizes conferences, publishes proceedings, and fosters research on languages such as Chinese language, Japanese language, Korean language, Mongolian language, Tibetan language, Tai languages, Hmong–Mien languages, and various Austroasiatic languages. It brings together scholars associated with institutions like Peking University, University of Tokyo, Seoul National University, National Taiwan University, Tsinghua University, and University of California, Berkeley.
The society was established in the late 1980s by scholars influenced by work at Harvard University, Indiana University Bloomington, University of Chicago, SOAS University of London, and University of British Columbia. Early organizers included researchers affiliated with Linguistic Society of America, Association for Asian Studies, and the then-growing network of East Asian area studies centered at Columbia University. Initial meetings alternated among venues in Taiwan, Japan, South Korea, and the United States, with notable early conferences hosted at Kyoto University, Seoul National University, and National Taiwan University. The society’s development ran in parallel with major projects such as the Princeton University Press publications on East Asian languages and collaborative projects funded through agencies like the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science and the National Science Foundation (United States).
The society’s mission emphasizes empirical description and theoretical analysis involving languages of China, Japan, Korea, Mongolia, Tibet, Vietnam, Laos, and adjacent regions. Activities include organizing annual meetings in partnership with universities such as University of Hong Kong and Korea University, producing edited volumes associated with presses like Routledge, Cambridge University Press, and John Benjamins Publishing Company, and maintaining academic networks involving centers such as Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Stanford University’s Asia Health Research Institute, and Australian National University. The society also supports early-career scholars connected to programs at Cornell University, University of Michigan, University of Pennsylvania, and National University of Singapore.
Annual conferences rotate between locations including Beijing, Tokyo, Seoul, Taipei, Bangkok, Vancouver, and London. Proceedings have been published in venues associated with UCLA, Pittsburgh University Press, and special issues in journals like Language, Linguistic Inquiry, Journal of East Asian Linguistics, and Oceanic Linguistics. The society has produced edited volumes drawing contributors from research groups at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Yonsei University, Zhongshan University, Peking University, and Hokkaido University. Conferences feature panels addressing phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, and historical linguistics with ties to projects at The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Seoul National University Hospital (for clinical linguistics) and laboratories at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and University of California, Los Angeles.
Membership includes academics, postdoctoral fellows, and graduate students affiliated with institutions such as Kyoto University, Waseda University, Hitotsubashi University, Fudan University, Nanjing University, Tsinghua University, National Taiwan Normal University, Sogang University, and Australian National University. Governance typically involves an elected executive committee with roles modeled after societies like the Linguistic Society of America and the Association for Computational Linguistics, with officers drawn from universities including SOAS University of London, University of Oxford, Cambridge University, Yale University, and Princeton University. The society awards travel grants and student paper prizes funded in part through collaborations with foundations such as the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and the Japan Foundation.
The society collaborates with regional associations like the Linguistic Society of Japan, the Korean Linguistics Society, the Chinese Linguistic Society, and the Taiwanese Linguistics Association, and with international bodies including the International Phonetic Association, the European Association for Japanese Studies, and the Association for Computational Linguistics. Joint workshops have been co-hosted with research centers at Peking University, University of Tokyo, Seoul National University, National Chengchi University, University of California, Berkeley, and Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology. Collaborative grants have been obtained with agencies such as the National Research Foundation of Korea, the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (Japan), and the European Research Council.
Contributions include documentation of underdescribed languages such as Tibetan languages, Mongolic languages, Vietic languages, and various Tai–Kadai languages; theoretical advances in syntax and morphology referencing paradigms from Japanese, Korean, and Mandarin Chinese; and cross-linguistic phonological work drawing on data from Cantonese, Hakka Chinese, Ryukyuan languages, and Khmer language. Research presented under the society’s auspices has influenced typological databases like the World Atlas of Language Structures and comparative efforts associated with Sino-Tibetan languages and Altaic hypothesis discussions. Many findings have fed into applied projects at institutions such as UNESCO language preservation initiatives, minority language education programs in Inner Mongolia, and digital archives housed at Academia Sinica, National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics, and Korean Studies Information Service System.
Category:Linguistic societies