Urgent Linguistic Fieldwork of the Pacific Rim

1) 1998年至2000年，11位日本语言学家（宫冈、崎山、津加利、大岛、远藤、黑比东[惠美]、Kazama、Watanabe、堀、Sasama和黑比东[德须]）与一位美国语言学家（Woodbury）合作，两名海外成员（中山和市桥）和三名研究生（永井[Kayo]、永井[忠孝]和Chida）协助，开展了为期三年的环太平洋地区母语研究实地考察项目。每年在各自的村庄或城镇进行大约两个月的实地调查。每年秋天召开一次会议，讨论每个人在实地工作中获得的结果和问题，并计划发表在这个项目中完成的工作。伍德伯里博士于1998年11月应邀到京都大学参加会议并发表演讲。3)除了已经出版的三卷《环北太平洋语言》外，1998年出版了第4卷（宫冈和大岛编辑），2000年出版了第5卷（宫冈和远藤编辑），2001年出版了第6卷（宫冈和远藤编辑）。

1) The three-year fieldwork project on the study of the native languages of the Pacific Rim was carried out from 1998 to 2000 by eleven Japanese linguistis (Miyaoka, Sakiyama, Tsumagari, Oshima, Endo, Kurebito [Megumi], Kazama, Watanabe, Hori, Sasama, and Kurebito [Tokusu]) with collaboration of an American linguist (Woodbury) and with assistance from two overseas members (Nakayama and Ichihashi) and three graduate students (Nagai [Kayo], Nagai [Tadataka], and Chida). The fieldwork was conducted about two months each year in the respective village or town.2) A meeting was held every fall to discuss the results and problems every one obtained in the fieldwork and the plan of publishing the work accomplished in this project. Dr.Woodbury was invited to Kyoto University in November 1998 to join the meeting and give a lecture.3) In addition to the already published three volumes of Languages of the North Pacific Rim, Volume 4 was published in 1998 (edited by Miyaoka and Oshima), Volume 5 in 2000 (edited by Miyaoka), and Volume 6 in 2001 (edited by Miyaoka and Endo).