Urgent Linguistic Fieldwork of the North Pacific Rim

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1.Linguistic field research was conducted about 2 months in the summer.Two investigators Ives Goddard and Michael Krauss were invited to Kyoto University in November.In the field each investigator worked on his/her respective language (given in 2 through 5 below), supplementing the information obtained in the last two years and obtaining data on new aspects of the 1anguage, in order to complete a detaild descriptive grammar.Goddard and Krauss gave 1ectures at the workshop where all the investigators attended. They were consulted in the publication planning of the research report to be scheduled in April, 1998, which is to follow the first volume published in June, 1997 (as given in 11 below).2.Eskimo-A1eut languages : The chief investigator worked on morphosyntactic problems of A1askan Yupik, Oshima on Aleut morphology, and Nagai (research collaborator) on Siberian Yupik phonology. The chief investigator did information exchange with researchers in University of Alaskas Alaska Native Language Center headed by Krauss.3.Indian languaes : Hori, Watanabe (investigators), Sasama, Nakayama, and Ichihashi (collaborators) worked on the morphology (and syntax) of their respective 1anguage, in close communication with the chief investigator.4.Siberian languages : Endo and Kazama (investigators) did a preliminary research on the morphology (and syntax) of Yukaghir and Tungusic, and Togus (collaborator) on Chukchee under the guidance of Kazama.5.Austronesian : Sakiyama explicated the origin of tone in Kai as monosyllabification of bisyllabic morphemes.