Publications

Articles

  1. Lévêque, Dimitri & Pellard, Thomas. 2023 (in press). The implicative structure of Asama verb paradigms: A quantitative study of segmental and suprasegmental alternations. Morphology.

  2. Pellard, Thomas & Takemura, Akiko & Hwang, Hyun Kyung & Vance, Timothy J. 2023. A new local indicator of spatial autocorrelation identifies clusters of high rendaku frequency in Japanese place names. Journal of Linguistic Geography 11(1). 1–7.
    Digital Object Identifier https://doi.org/10.1017/jlg.2022.11
    Open Access https://hal.science/hal-04009523

  3. Tian, Zheng & Tao, Yuxin & Zhu, Kongyang & Jacques, Guillaume & Ryder, Robin J. & de la Fuente, José Andrés Alonso & Antonov, Anton & Xia, Ziyang & Zhang, Yuxuan & Ji, Xiaoyan & Ren, Xiaoying & He, Guanglin & Guo, Jianxin & Wang, Rui & Yang, Xiaomin & Zhao, Jing & Xu, Dan & Gray, Russell D. & Zhang, Menghan & Wen, Shaoqing & Wang, Chuan-Chao & Pellard, Thomas. 2022 (preprint). Triangulation fails when neither linguistic, genetic, nor archaeological data support the Transeurasian narrative. bioRxiv.
    Open Access Digital Object Identifier https://doi.org/10.1101/2022.06.09.495471

  4. Jacques, Guillaume & Pellard, Thomas. 2021. Phylogenies based on lexical innovations refute the Rung hypothesis. Diachronica 38(1). 1–24.
    Digital Object Identifier https://doi.org/10.1075/dia.19058.jac
    Open Access https://hal.science/hal-03084829

  5. Roberts, Seán G. & Killin, Anton & Deb, Angarika & Sheard, Catherine & Greenhill, Simon J. & Sinnemäki, Kaius & Segovia-Martín, José & Nölle, Jonas & Berdicevskis, Aleksandrs & Humphreys-Balkwill, Archie & Little, Hannah & Opie, Christopher & Jacques, Guillaume & Bromham, Lindell & Tinits, Peeter & Ross, Robert M. & Lee, Sean & Gasser, Emily & Calladine, Jasmine & Spike, Matthew & Mann, Stephen Francis & Shcherbakova, Olena & Singer, Ruth & Zhang, Shuya & Benítez-Burraco, Antonio & Kliesch, Christian & Thomas-Colquhoun, Ewan & Skirgård, Hedvig & Tamariz, Monica & Passmore, Sam & Pellard, Thomas & Jordan, Fiona. 2020. CHIELD: The causal hypotheses in evolutionary linguistics database. Journal of Language Evolution 5(2). 101–120.
    Digital Object Identifier https://doi.org/10.1093/jole/lzaa001
    Open Access http://hdl.handle.net/10138/319816

  6. Takemura, Akiko & Pellard, Thomas & Hwang, Hyun Kyung & Vance, Timothy J. 2019. Rendaku in place names across Japanese dialects. Reports of the Keio Institute of Cultural and Linguistic Studies (言語文化研究所紀要) 50. 79–89.
    Open Access https://koara.lib.keio.ac.jp/xoonips/modules/xoonips/detail.php?koara_id=AN00069467-00000050-0079

  7. Pellard, Thomas & Sagart, Laurent & Jacques, Guillaume. 2018. L’indo-européen n’est pas un mythe. Bulletin de la Société Linguistique de Paris 113(1). 79–102.
    Digital Object Identifier https://doi.org/10.2143/BSL.113.1.3285465
    Open Access https://hal.science//hal-01871582

  8. Pellard, Thomas. 2016. Why /r/ is not a special, empty consonant in Japanese. Journal of East Asian Linguistics 25(4). 351–383.
    Digital Object Identifier https://doi.org/10.1007/s10831-016-9147-4
    Open Access https://hal.science/hal-01356834

  9. Igarashi, Yosuke & Takubo, Tukinori & Hayashi, Yuka & Pellard, Thomas & Kubo, Tomoyuki. 2016. The Ikema dialect of Miyako Ryukyuan has a three-, not two-, pattern accent system. Journal of the Phonetic Society of Japan 20(1). 47–60.
    Open Access Digital Object Identifier https://doi.org/10.24467/onseikenkyu.20.1_47

  10. Pellard, Thomas. 2014. The awakened lord: The name of the Buddha in East Asia. Journal of the American Oriental Society 134(4). 689–698.
    Digital Object Identifier https://doi.org/10.7817/jameroriesoci.134.4.689
    Open Access https://hal.science/hal-01289243

  11. Pellard, Thomas. 2012. Converbs and their desubordination in Ōgami Ryukyuan. Gengo Kenkyū (言語研究) 142. 95–117.
    Open Access Digital Object Identifier https://doi.org/10.11435/gengo.142.0_95

  12. Igarashi, Yōsuke (五十嵐 陽介) & Takubo, Yukinori (田窪 行則) & Hayashi, Yuka (林 由華) & Pellard, Thomas (ペラール トマ) & Kubo, Tomoyuki (久保 智之). 2012. Ryūkyū Miyakogo Ikema hōgen no akusento wa sankei deatte nikei dewanai (琉球宮古語池間方言のアクセント体系は三型であって二型ではない) [The Ikema dialect of Miyako Ryukyuan has a three-, not two-, pattern accent system]. Onsei Kenkyū (音声研究) 16(1). 1–15.
    Open Access Digital Object Identifier https://doi.org/10.24467/onseikenkyu.16.1_134

  13. Pellard, Thomas. 2008. Proto-Japonic *e and *o in Eastern Old Japanese. Cahiers de Linguistique Asie Orientale 37(2). 133–158.
    Digital Object Identifier https://doi.org/10.1163/1960602808X00055
    Open Access https://www.persee.fr/doc/clao_0153-3320_2008_num_37_2_1850

Chapitres d’ouvrage collectif | Book Chapters

  1. Pellard, Thomas & Ryder, Robin & Jacques, Guillaume. Forthcoming. The Family Tree model. In Ledgeway, Adam & Aldridge, Edith & Breitbarth, Anne & Kiss, Katalin E. & Salmons, Joseph (eds.), The Wiley Blackwell companion to diachronic linguistics. Wiley.

  2. Pellard, Thomas. 2023 (inpress). Ryukyuan and the reconstruction of proto-Japanese-Ryukyuan. In Frellesvig, Bjarke & Kinsui, Satoshi (eds.), Handbook of historical Japanese linguistics, 33–61. Berlin: De Gruyter.
    Digital Object Identifier https://doi.org/10.1515/9781614512851-003
    Open Access https://hal.science/hal-04039079

  3. Pellard, Thomas (ペラール トマ). 2021. Nichiryū shogo no keitō bunrui to bunki ni tsuite (日琉諸語の系統分類と分岐について) [On the phylogenetic classification and the separation of the Japonic languages]. In Kibe, Nobuko (木部 暢子) & Hayashi, Yuka (林 由華) & Kinuhata, Tomohide (衣畑 智秀) (eds.), Fīrudo to bunken kara miru Nichiryū shogo no keitō to rekishi (フィールドと文献から見る日琉諸語の系統と歴史) [The phylogeny and history of the Japonic languages from the philological and field linguistics perspectives], 2–16. Tokyo: Kaitakusha.
    Open Access https://hal.science/hal-03249949

  4. Takemura, Akiko (竹村 亜紀子) & Pellard, Thomas (ペラール トマ). 2020. Nasō to nasasō no shiyō jittai no keiryōteki chōsa (ナソウとナサソウの使用実態の計量的調査) [A quantitative study of the usage of nasō and nasasō]. In U, Ichiraku (于 一楽) & Eguchi, Kiyoko (江口 清子) & Kido, Yasuhito (木戸 康人) & Mano, Miho (眞野 美穂) (eds.), Tōgo kōzō to goi no takakuteki kenkyū: Kishimoto Hideki kyōju kanreki kinen ronbunshū (統語構造と語彙の多角的研究：岸本秀樹教授還暦記念論文集) [Multifaceted studies of syntactic structure and of the lexicon: Festschrift for the sixtieth birthday of Hideki Kishimoto], 277–287. Tokyo: Kaitakusha.
    Open Access https://hal.science/hal-02910235

  5. Pellard, Thomas (ペラール トマ). 2019. Hikaku gengogaku (比較言語学) [Comparative linguistics]. In Kibe, Nobuko (木部 暢子) (ed.), Meikai hōgengaku jiten (明解方言学辞典) [The Sanseido dictionary of dialectology], 119–120. Tokyo: Sanseidō.

  6. Pellard, Thomas (ペラール トマ). 2019. Kyōjiron, tsūjiron (共時論・通時論) [Synchrony, diachrony]. In Kibe, Nobuko (木部 暢子) (ed.), Meikai hōgengaku jiten (明解方言学辞典) [The Sanseido dictionary of dialectology], 47–48. Tokyo: Sanseidō.

  7. Pellard, Thomas (ペラール トマ). 2019. Nichi-ryū sogo (日琉祖語) [Proto-Japonic]. In Kibe, Nobuko (木部 暢子) (ed.), Meikai hōgengaku jiten (明解方言学辞典) [The Sanseido dictionary of dialectology], 113. Tokyo: Sanseidō.
    Open Access https://hal.science/hal-02099262

  8. Pellard, Thomas (ペラール トマ). 2019. On henka (音変化) [Sound change]. In Kibe, Nobuko (木部 暢子) (ed.), Meikai hōgengaku jiten (明解方言学辞典) [The Sanseido dictionary of dialectology], 28–29. Tokyo: Sanseidō.

  9. Pellard, Thomas & Hayashi, Yuka. 2019. The phonology of the Miyako dialects: Phonological systems and comparisons. In Kibe, Nobuko (ed.), Research report on Miyako Ryukyuan: General study for research and conservation of endangered dialects in Japan, 13–55. Tachikawa: National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics.
    Open Access Digital Object Identifier https://doi.org/10.15084/00002524

  10. Pellard, Thomas. 2017. A (more) comparative approach to some Japanese etymologies. In McClure, William & Vovin, Alexander (eds.), Studies in Japanese and Korean historical and theoretical linguistics and beyond, 55–64. Leiden: Brill.
    Digital Object Identifier https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004351134_007
    Open Access https://hal.science/hal-01584927

  11. Pellard, Thomas & Yamada, Masahiro. 2017. Verb morphology and conjugation classes in Dunan (Yonaguni). In Kiefer, Ferenc & Blevins, James P. & Bartos, Huba (eds.), Perspectives on morphological organization, 31–49. Leiden: Brill.
    Digital Object Identifier https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004342934_004
    Open Access https://hal.science/hal-01493096

  12. Pellard, Thomas (ペラール トマ). 2016. Nichiryū sogo no bunki nendai (日琉祖語の分岐年代) [The date of separation of the proto-Japonic language]. In Takubo, Yukinori (田窪 行則) & Whitman, John (ホイットマン ジョン) & Hirako, Tatsuya (平子 達也) (eds.), Ryūkyū shogo to Kodai Nihongo: Nichiryū sogo no saiken ni mukete (琉球諸語と古代日本語：日琉祖語の再建に向けて) [Ryukyuan and premodern Japanese: Toward the reconstruction of proto-Japanese-Ryukyuan], 99–124. Tokyo: Kuroshio Shuppan.
    Open Access https://hal.science/hal-02507426

  13. Pellard, Thomas. 2015. The linguistic archeology of the Ryukyu Islands. In Heinrich, Patrick & Miyara, Shinsho & Shimoji, Michinori (eds.), Handbook of the Ryukyuan languages: History, structure, and use, 13–37. Berlin: De Gruyter.
    Digital Object Identifier https://doi.org/10.1515/9781614511151.13
    Open Access https://hal.science/hal-01289257

  14. Pellard, Thomas (ペラール トマ). 2015. Ōgami hōgen (Okinawa-ken Miyakojima-shi Hirara Ōgami) (大神方言（沖縄県宮古島市平良大神）) [Ōgami dialect (Okinawa prefecture, Miyakojima city, Hirara Ōgami)]. In Ogawa, Shinji (小川 晋史) (ed.), Ryūkyū no kotoba no kakikata (琉球のことばの書き方) [How to write the Ryukyuan languages], 169–177. Tokyo: Kuroshio Shuppan.

  15. Yamada, Masahiro & Pellard, Thomas & Shimoji, Michinori. 2015. Dunan grammar (Yonaguni Ryukyuan). In Heinrich, Patrick & Miyara, Shinsho & Shimoji, Michinori (eds.), Handbook of the Ryukyuan languages: History, structure, and use, 449–478. Berlin: De Gruyter.
    Digital Object Identifier https://doi.org/10.1515/9781614511151.449
    Open Access https://hal.science/hal-01289268

  16. Pellard, Thomas (ペラール トマ). 2013. Nihon rettō no gengo no tayōsei: Ryūkyū shogo o chūshin ni (日本列島の言語の多様性：琉球諸語を中心に) [The linguistic diversity of the Japanese archipelago: With a focus on the Ryukyuan languages]. In Takubo, Yukinori (田窪 行則) (ed.), Ryūkyū rettō no gengo to bunka: Sono kiroku to keishō (琉球列島の言語と文化：その記録と継承) [The languages and cultures of the Ryūkyū Islands: Documentation and transmission], 81–92. Tokyo: Kuroshio Shuppan.
    Open Access https://hal.science/hal-01289782

  17. Pellard, Thomas. 2013. Ryukyuan perspectives on the Proto-Japonic vowel system. In Frellesvig, Bjarke & Sells, Peter (eds.), Japanese/Korean linguistics, vol. 20, 81–96. Stanford: Center for the Study of Language and Information Publications.
    Open Access https://hal.science/hal-01289288

  18. Yamada, Masahiro (山田 真寛) & Pellard, Thomas (ペラール トマ). 2013. Dunan (Yonaguni)-go no gengo shiyō (ドゥナン（与那国）語の言語使用) [Usages of the Dunan (Yonaguni) language]. In Takubo, Yukinori (田窪 行則) (ed.), Ryūkyū rettō no gengo to bunka: Sono kiroku to keishō (琉球列島の言語と文化：その記録と継承) [The languages and cultures of the Ryūkyū Islands: Documentation and transmission], 93–107. Tokyo: Kuroshio Shuppan.
    Open Access https://hal.science/hal-01289786

  19. Yamada, Masahiro (山田 真寛) & Pellard, Thomas (ペラール トマ) & Shimoji, Michinori (下地 理則). 2013. Dunan (Yonaguni)-go no kan’i bunpō to shizen danwa shiryō (ドゥナン（与那国）語の簡易文法と自然談話資料) [Grammatical sketch and natural discourse material of Dunan (Yonaguni)]. In Takubo, Yukinori (田窪 行則) (ed.), Ryūkyū rettō no gengo to bunka: Sono kiroku to keishō (琉球列島の言語と文化：その記録と継承) [The languages and cultures of the Ryūkyū Islands: Documentation and transmission], 291–324. Tokyo: Kuroshio Shuppan.
    Open Access https://hal.science/hal-01289790

  20. Hirako, Tatsuya (平子 達也) & Pellard, Thomas (ペラール トマ). 2013. Hachijōgo no furusa to atarashisa (八丈語の古さと新しさ) [Old and new aspects of the Hachijō language]. In Kibe, Nobuko (木部 暢子) (ed.), Shōmetsu kiki hōgen no chōsa, hozon no tame no sōgōteki kenkyū: Hachijō hōgen chōsa hōkokusho (消滅危機方言の調査・保存のための総合的研究：八丈方言調査報告書) [General study for research and conservation of endangered dialects in Japan: Research report on Hachijō dialect], 47–67. Tachikawa: National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics.
    Open Access Digital Object Identifier https://doi.org/10.15084/00002407

  21. Pellard, Thomas (ペラール トマ) & Hayashi, Yuka (林 由華). 2012. Miyako shohōgen no on’in: Taikei to hikaku (宮古諸方言の音韻：体系と比較) [Phonology of the Miyako Ryukyuan dialects: Systems and their comparison]. In Kibe, Nobuko (木部 暢子) (ed.), Shōmetsu kiki hōgen no chōsa, hozon no tame no sōgōteki kenkyū: Minami Ryūkyū Miyako hōgen chōsa hōkokusho (消滅危機方言の調査・保存のための総合的研究：南琉球宮古方言調査報告書) [General research for research and conservation of endangered dialects in Japan: Research report on Miyako Ryukyuan], 13–51. Tachikawa: National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics.
    Open Access Digital Object Identifier https://doi.org/10.15084/00002461

  22. Pellard, Thomas. 2010. Ōgami (Miyako Ryukyuan). In Shimoji, Michinori & Pellard, Thomas (eds.), An introduction to Ryukyuan languages, 113–166. Tokyo: Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa.
    Open Access http://hdl.handle.net/10108/70116

Contributions à des actes de colloque | Conference proceedings

  1. Takemura, Akiko & Pellard, Thomas. 2021. Kyōtsū Nihongo akusento wa nikei akusento ka: Jōhō riron no kanten kara (共通日本語アクセントは二型アクセントか：情報理論からの観点). In Proceedings of the 163rd Meeting of the Linguistic Society of Japan (日本言語学会第 163 回大会予稿集), 87–93. Linguistic Society of Japan.
    Open Access https://www.ls-japan.org/modules/documents/LSJpapers/meeting/163/handouts/b/B-6_163.pdf

  2. Pellard, Thomas (ペラール トマ). 2016. Ryūkyū shogo no furusa to atarashisa: Boin to shiin ni tsuite (琉球諸語の古さと新しさ：母音と子音について) [Old and new aspects of the Ryukyuan languages: On vowels and consonants]. In Proceedings of the 2016 Spring meeting of the Society for Japanese Linguistics. Tokyo: Society for Japanese Linguistics.

  3. Pellard, Thomas (ペラール トマ). 2011. Kiete yuku chiisana shima no kotoba (消えてゆく小さな島のことば) [The disappearing languages of small islands]. In Nihon no hōgen no tayōsei o mamoru tame ni (日本の方言の多様性を守るために) [For the preservation of the diversity of Japanese dialects], 24–31. Tokyo: National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics.
    Open Access Digital Object Identifier https://doi.org/10.15084/00000892

  4. Pellard, Thomas. 2011. The historical position of the Ryukyuan languages. In Historical linguistics in the Asia-Pacific region and the position of Japanese, 55–64. Osaka: National Museum of Ethnology.
    Open Access https://hal.science/hal-01682958

  5. Pellard, Thomas (ペラール トマ). 2010. Miyakogo Ōgami hōgen no fukudōshi to datsujūzokuka (宮古語大神方言の副動詞と脱従属化) [Converbs and their desubordination in the Ōgami dialect of Miyako Ryukyuan]. In Proceedings of the 140th Meeting of the Linguistic Society of Japan, 316–321. Tsukuba: Linguistic Society of Japan.

Compte-rendus | Book reviews

  1. Pellard, Thomas. 2010. Review of Frellesvig, Bjarke & Whitman, John (eds.), 2008, Proto-Japanese: Issues and prospects, Amsterdam: John Benjamins. Cahiers de Linguistique Asie Orientale 39(1). 95–114.
    Digital Object Identifier https://doi.org/10.1163/1960602810X00089
    Open Access https://hal.science/halshs-00771242

  2. Pellard, Thomas. 2010. Review of Bentley, John R., 2008, A linguistic history of the forgotten islands: A reconstruction of the proto-language of the Southern Ryukyus, Folkestone: Global Oriental. Diachronica 27(1). 170–176.
    Digital Object Identifier https://doi.org/10.1075/dia.27.1.07pel
    Open Access https://hal.science/halshs-00529143

  3. Pellard, Thomas. 2005. Review of Beckwith, Christopher I., 2004, Koguryo, the language of Japan’s continental relatives: An introduction to the historical-comparative study of the Japanese-Koguryoic languages with a preliminary description of Archaic Northeastern Middle Chinese, Leiden: Brill. Korean Studies 29. 167–170.
    Digital Object Identifier https://doi.org/10.1353/ks.2006.0008
    Open Access https://hal.science/hal-00194111

Directions d’ouvrage | Edited volumes

  1. Shimoji, Michinori & Pellard, Thomas (eds.). 2010. An introduction to Ryukyuan languages. Tokyo: Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa.
    Open Access http://repository.tufs.ac.jp/simple-search?query=An+introduction+to+Ryukyuan+languages%5C&submit=simple-search

Présentations invitées à des conférences | Invited presentations

  1. Pellard, Thomas. 2020. Ryūkyū shogo no boin taikei no keisei katei (琉球諸語の母音体系の形成過程). Paper presented at Nichiryū shohōgen keitōron no tenbō (日琉諸方言系統論の展望). Tachikawa: National Institute for Japanese Language & Linguistics. 19 December 2020.

  2. Pellard, Thomas (ペラール トマ). 2019. Gengogaku kara mita Ryūkyū rettō e no hito no idōshi (言語学から見た琉球列島への人の移動誌) [The history of human migrations to the Ryukyu Islands seen from the perspective of linguistics]. Paper presented at Ryūkyū rettō e no hito to bunka no idō (琉球列島への人と文化の移動) [The migrations of humans and culture in the Ryukyu Islands]. Naha. 16–17 November 2019.

  3. Pellard, Thomas (ペラール トマ). 2018. Nichiryū shogo no keitō bunrui to bunki ni tsuite (日琉諸語の系統分類と分岐について) [On the phylogenetic classification and the separation of the Japonic languages]. Paper presented at Fīrudo to bunken kara miru Nichiryū shogo no keitō to rekishi (フィールドと文献から見る日琉諸語の系統と歴史) [Phylesis and the history of the Japonic languages from philological and field linguistic perspectives]. Tachikawa: National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics. 22–23 December 2018.
    Open Access https://hal.science/hal-01964852

  4. Pellard, Thomas. 2018. The comparative study of the Japonic languages. Paper presented at Approaches to endangered languages in Japan and Northeast Asia. Tachikawa: National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics. 6–9 August 2018.
    Open Access https://hal.science/hal-01856152

  5. Pellard, Thomas (ペラール トマ). 2016. Ryūkyū shogo no kai bunrui (琉球諸語の下位分類) [Subclassification of the Ryukyuan languages]. Paper presented at “Nihongo no kigen wa dono yō ni ronjirarete kita ka: Nihon gengogakushi no hikari to kage” Dai 3-kai kyōdō kenkyūkai (「日本語の起源はどのように論じられてきたか：日本言語学史の光と影」第 3 回共同研究会) [Third joint meeting of the project “How have the origins of the Japanese language been discussed: The lights and shadows of the history of linguistics in Japan” ]. Kyoto: International Research Center for Japanese Studies. 30–31 August 2016.

  6. Pellard, Thomas. 2016. Typological and historical-comparative perspectives on tone and vowel length in Ryukyuan. Paper presented at Japanese and Korean accent: Diachrony, reconstruction, and typology. Tokyo: Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies. 2–3 July 2016.
    Open Access https://hal.science/hal-01416041

  7. Pellard, Thomas. 2013. Language dispersal in the Ryukyu Islands. Paper presented at Dispersion of people, crops, and language: Hokkaido and Ryukyus. Kyoto: National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics & Research Institute for Humanity and Nature. 23–24 February 2013.

  8. Pellard, Thomas (ペラール トマ). 2013. Nichi-ryū sogo no bunki nendai (日琉祖語の分岐年代) [The date of separation of the proto-Japonic language]. Paper presented at Ryūkyū shogo to Kodai Nihongo ni kansuru hikaku gengogakuteki kenkyū (琉球諸語と古代日本語に関する比較言語学的研) [Comparative studies on the Ryukyuan languages and Ancient Japanese]. Kyoto: Kyoto University. 19–20 February 2013.

  9. Pellard, Thomas (ペラール トマ). 2012. Kita-Ryūkyū shohōgen ni mirareru chōboin to onchō no taiō kankei ni tsuite: Okinawago chūnanbu hōgen ni okeru C-keiretsu no gotō chōboin wo chūshin ni (北琉球諸方言に見られる長母音と音調の対応関係について：沖縄語中南部方言における C 系列のご語頭長母音を中心に) [On the correspondence between long vowels and tone in Northern Ryukyuan: Concentrating on the inital long vowels of C-class words in Southern Okinawan]. Paper presented at “Nihon rettō to shūhen shogengo no ruikeironteki, hikaku rekishiteki kenkyū” kenkyū happyōkai (「日本列島と周辺諸言語の類型論的・比較歴史的研究」研究発表会) [“Typological and historical/comparative research on the languages of the Japanese archipelago and their environs” project meeting]. Tachikawa: National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics. 7 August 2012.

  10. Pellard, Thomas (ペラール トマ). 2012. Ryūkyū shogo to Nihongo no shiteki kankei (琉球諸語と日本語の史的関係) [The historical relationship of Ryukyuan and Japanese]. Paper presented at 37th Meeting of the Kansai Linguistic Society. Kobe: Kansai Linguistic Society. 2–3 June 2012.

  11. Pellard, Thomas. 2011. Japanese and the other Japonic languages: The historical position of the Ryukyuan languages. Paper presented at Historical linguistics in the Asia-Pacific region and the position of Japanese. Osaka: National Museum of Ethnology. 30 July 2011.

  12. Pellard, Thomas (ペラール トマ). 2011. Ryūkyū shogo hikaku on’inron no mikaiketsu mondai (琉球諸語比較音韻論の未解決問題) [Unresolved problems of Ryukyuan historical phonology]. Paper presented at Kodai Nihongo to Ryūkyūgo no kenkyū (古代日本語と琉球語の研究) [Research on Ancient Japanese and Ryukyuan]. Kyoto: University of Kyoto. 12 March 2011.

  13. Pellard, Thomas (ペラール トマ). 2011. Hikaku rekishi gengogaku to kijutsu gengogaku no kankei: Ryūkyū shogo no baai (比較歴史言語学と記述言語学の関係：琉球諸語の場合) [The relationship of comparative historical linguistics and descriptive linguistics: The case of the Ryukyuan languages]. Paper presented at Dai 3-kai Ryūkyū keishō gengo sinpojiumu (第 3 回琉球継承言語シンポジウム). Tokyo: Ryukyuan Heritage Language Society. 5 March 2011.

  14. Pellard, Thomas (ペラール トマ). 2010. Kiete yuku chiisana shima no kotoba (消えてゆく小さな島のことば) [The disappearing languages of small islands]. Paper presented at Nihon no hōgen no tayōsei o mamoru tame ni (日本の方言の多様性を守るために) [For the preservation of the diversity of Japanese dialects]. Tokyo: National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics. 18 December 2010.

  15. Pellard, Thomas (ペラール トマ). 2010. Nichi-Ryū sogo no boin ni tsuite: Hikaku on’inron no hōhō to jissen (日琉祖語の母音について：比較音韻論の方法と実践) [The Proto-Japonic vowels: Methods and pratice of comparative phonology]. Paper presented at Methods and practice of diachronic phonology in Japanese. Toyonaka: Osaka University. 11 December 2010.

  16. Pellard, Thomas. 2010. The Ryukyuan languages and the reconstruction of Earlier Japanese. Paper presented at Japanese Times Now Past. Bochum: Ruhr-Universität Bochum. 11–12 June 2010.

  17. Pellard, Thomas (ペラール トマ). 2010. Miyakogo Ōgami hōgen no onsei to on’in: Ruikeironteki kanten kara mita kiki gengo no tokushusei to jūyōsei (宮古語大神方言の音声と音韻：類型論的観点から見た危機言語の特殊性と重要性) [Phonetics and phonology of Ōgami Miyako Ryukyuan: Particularity and typological importance of an endangered language]. Paper presented at “Nihongo rekishikon no on’in tokusei” kenkyū happyōkai (「日本語レキシコンの音韻特性」研究発表会) [“Phonological characteristics of the Japanese lexicon” project meeting]. Kyoto: National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics. 6 June 2010.

  18. Pellard, Thomas. 2009. Ryukyuan: History and classification. Paper presented at Workshop on Ryukyuan Languages and Linguistics. Los Angeles: University of California, Los Angeles. 23–25 October 2009.

Conférences invitées | Invited lectures

  1. Pellard, Thomas. 2022. The mirage of Transeurasian. Paper presented at Research Center for Language, Brain and Cognition Colloquium Series. Tohoku University, Research Center for Language, Brain, & Cognition. 20 December 2022.

  2. Pellard, Thomas. 2022. Kita-Ryūkyū shogo ni okeru chōboin to Ryūkyū sogo no akusento taikei no saiken (北琉球諸語における長母音と琉球祖語のアクセント体系の再建). Paper presented at 1st Conference on Proto-Japonic (第一回プロトジャポニック研究発表会). Online: National Institute for Japanese Language & Linguistics. 24 November 2022.

  3. Pellard, Thomas. 2022. Toransuyūrashia to iu gensō (トランスユーラシアという幻想). Paper presented at Tokyo: University of Tokyo & Tokai University. 28 July 2022.
    Open Access https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UgXq14ag85Q

  4. Pellard, Thomas. 2022. The Ryukyuan languages: Linguistics and prehistory. Paper presented at Nissan Seminar. Online: Nissan Institute of Japanese Studies & Oxford School of Global and Area Studies. 3 February 2022.

  5. Pellard, Thomas. 2019. Les origines du japonais. Paper presented at Strasbourg: Université de Strasbourg. 30 January 2019.

  6. Pellard, Thomas. 2017. Japanese and the other Japonic languages. Paper presented at Missoula: University of Montana. 7 April 2017.

  7. Pellard, Thomas. 2017. Historical linguistics and the origins of Japanese buddhism. Paper presented at Missoula: University of Montana. 5 April 2017.

  8. Pellard, Thomas. 2015. The Ryukyuan languages: A window on the history of the Japanese archipelago. Paper presented at Cambridge: Reischauer Institute, Harvard University. 24 April 2015.

  9. Pellard, Thomas. 2012. The Ryukyuan languages and their relationship with Japanese. Paper presented at Edmonton: University of Alberta. 30 March 2012.

  10. Pellard, Thomas. 2012. Some field notes on the Ryukyuan languages. Paper presented at Edmonton: University of Alberta. 29 March 2012.

  11. Pellard, Thomas. 2010. Why the study of the Ryukyuan languages is important: The example of Ōgami Ryukyuan. Paper presented at Oxford: University of Oxford. 19 January 2010.

  12. Pellard, Thomas. 2009. The place of Ryukyuan within the Japonic family. Paper presented at Columbus: Ohio State University. 19 November 2009.

  13. Pellard, Thomas. 2009. The role of Ryukyuan in understanding the linguistic history of the Japanese Islands. Paper presented at Ithaca: Cornell University. 17 November 2009.

  14. Pellard, Thomas. 2009. Ryukyuan descriptive and comparative linguistics: A short introduction. Paper presented at Ithaca: Cornell University. 17 November 2009.

  15. Pellard, Thomas (ペラール トマ). 2009. Ryūkyū rettō no rekishi hikaku gengogaku: Miyako shohōgen kara Ryūkyū sogo, soshite Nihon sogo e (琉球列島の歴史比較言語学：宮古諸方言から，そして日本祖語へ) [Historical-comparative linguistics in the Ryukyu Islands: From proto-Miyako to proto-Ryukyuan, then proto-Japonic]. Paper presented at Kyoto: Kyoto University. 26 March 2009.

Présentations à des conférences | Conference presentations

  1. Pellard, Thomas. 2023. Perspectives archéolinguistiques sur le peuplement des îles Ryūkyū. Paper presented at 15e Colloque de la Société Française des Études Japonaises. Paris: Société Française des Études Japonaises. 14–16 December 2023.

  2. Pellard, Thomas. 2022. Retour sur la théorie des aires dialectales périphériques de Yanagita Kunio. Paper presented at 14e Colloque de la Société Française des Études Japonaises. Orléans: Société Française des Études Japonaises. 9–11 December 2021.

  3. Pellard, Thomas & Lévêque, Dimitri. 2021. A realisational and implemented description of Asama’s verb paradigms. Paper presented at Inflectional reflections. Paris: SeDyL. 15 December 2021.

  4. Takemura, Akiko & Pellard, Thomas. 2021. Kyōtsū Nihongo akusento wa nikei akusento ka: Jōhō riron no kanten kara (共通日本語アクセントは二型アクセントか：情報理論からの観点). Paper presented at The 163rd Meeting of the Linguistic Society of Japan (日本言語学会第 163 回大会). Online. 20–21 November 2021.

  5. Takemura, Akiko & Pellard, Thomas. 2021. A quantitative perspective on Japanese accent. Paper presented at 34th Paris Meeting on East Asian Linguistics. Paris: CRLAO. 7–9 July 2021.

  6. Lévêque, Dimitri & Pellard, Thomas. 2019. Description of verbal morphology of Asama: A realizational and implemented approach. Paper presented at International Symposium of Morphology 2019. Paris: Université Paris Diderot. 25–27 September 2019.
    Open Access https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-02295412

  7. Lévêque, Dimitri & Pellard, Thomas. 2019. Advancing the study of endangered languages with computational tools for morphology: The case of Asama verb paradigms. Paper presented at LIFT 2019: Scientific meeting of the “Computational, formal & field linguistics” research group. Orléans: Université d’Orléans. 28–29 November 2019.
    Open Access https://hal.science/hal-02428825

  8. Pellard, Thomas & Yamada, Masahiro. 2016. Verb morphology and conjugation classes in Dunan (Yonaguni). Paper presented at 16th International Morphology Meeting. Budapest: Research Institute for Linguistics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences & Austrian Academy of Sciences. 29 May–1 June 2016.

  9. Pellard, Thomas (ペラール トマ). 2016. Ryūkyū shogo no furusa to atarashisa: Boin to shiin ni tsuite (琉球諸語の古さと新しさ：母音と子音について) [Old and new aspects of the Ryukyuan languages: On vowels and consonants]. Paper presented at 2016 Spring meeting of the Society for Japanese Linguistics. Tokyo: Society for Japanese Linguistics. 14–15 May 2016.

  10. Hwang, Hyun Kyung & Takemura, Akiko & Pellard, Thomas & Vance, Timothy. 2015. Rendaku in place names across Japanese dialects. Paper presented at 13èmes rencontres du Réseau français de phonologie. Bordeaux: Cognition, Langue, Langages, Ergonomie, équipe de recherche en syntaxe et en sémantique à Bordeaux. 29 June–2 July 2015.

  11. Igarashi, Yōsuke (五十嵐 洋介陽介) & Takubo, Yukinori (田窪 行則) & Pellard, Thomas (ペラール トマ). 2012. Minami Ryūkyū Miyakogo Ikema hōgen ni okeru akusento-gata no chūwa to gōryū (南琉球宮古語池間方言におけるアクセント型の中和と合流) [Neutralization and merger in the prosodic patterns of the Ikema dialect of Miyako (Southern Ryukyuan)]. Paper presented at “Nihongo rekishikon no on’in tokusei” kenkyū happyōkai (「日本語レキシコンの音韻特性」研究発表会) [“Phonological characteristics of the Japanese lexicon” project meeting]. Fukuoka: National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics. 23–25 November 2012.

  12. Pellard, Thomas. 2010. Ryukyuan perspectives on the Proto-Japonic vowel system. Paper presented at 20th Japanese/Korean Linguistics Conference. Oxford: University of Oxford and University of London. 1–3 October 2010.

  13. Pellard, Thomas. 2010. Converbs and desubordination in Ōgami Ryukyuan. Paper presented at Syntax of the World’s Languages IV. Lyon: Dynamique Du Langage & Université Lumière Lyon 2. 23–26 September 2010.

  14. Hayashi, Yuka (林 由華) & Pellard, Thomas (ペラール トマ). 2010. Miyakogo ni okeru dōshi renzokutai to setsuzokukei (宮古語における動詞連続体の接続形) [Verbal complexes and connective forms in Miyako Ryukyuan]. Paper presented at The 2nd Workshop on Ryukyuan languages and linguistic research. Nishihara: University of the Ryukyus. 6–7 August 2010.

  15. Pellard, Thomas (ペラール トマ). 2010. Miyakogo Ōgami hōgen no fukudōshi to datsujūzokuka (宮古語大神方言の副動詞と脱従属化) [Converbs and their desubordination in the Ōgami dialect of Miyako Ryukyuan]. Paper presented at 140th Meeting of the Linguistic Society of Japan (日本言語学会第 140 回大会). Tsukuba: Linguistic Society of Japan. 19–20 June 2010.

  16. Hayashi, Yuka & Takubo, Yukinori & Pellard, Thomas & Igarashi, Yōsuke & Kubo, Tomoyuki. 2009. The word prosody of Ikema Ryukyuan. Paper presented at Workshop on Ryukyuan Languages and Linguistics. Los Angeles: University of California, Los Angeles. 23–25 October 2009.

  17. Hayashi, Yuka & Pellard, Thomas & Takubo, Yukinori & Kubo, Tomoyuki & Igarashi, Yōsuke. 2009. The tone system of Ikema Ryukyuan. Paper presented at International workshop on “The History & Reconstruction of Japanese Accent” . Paris: Institut national des langues et civilisations orientales. 3–4 September 2009.

  18. Pellard, Thomas. 2009. Once again on long vowels and register in Proto-Japonic. Paper presented at International workshop on “The History & Reconstruction of Japanese Accent” . Paris: Institut national des langues et civilisations orientales. 3–4 September 2009.

  19. Pellard, Thomas (ペラール トマ). 2009. Ōgami hōgen ni okeru muboin musei no onsetsu to go ni tsuite (大神方言における無母音・無声の音節と語について) [On voiceless vowelless syllables and words in Ōgami]. Paper presented at 3rd Workshop on Ryukyuan Linguistics (第 3 回琉球語ワークショップ). Tokyo: University of Tokyo. 24 January 2009.

  20. Pellard, Thomas. 2008. The sound of silence: Voiceless syllables and voiceless words in Ōgami Ryukyuan. Paper presented at 22nd Paris Meeting on East Asian Linguistics. Paris: CRLAO. 9–10 June 2008.

  21. Pellard, Thomas (ペラール トマ). 2007. Miyako shohōgen no on’in no mondaiten (宮古諸方言の音韻の問題点) [Problems in the phonology of Miyako dialects]. Paper presented at 2nd Workshop on Ryukyuan Linguistics (第二回琉球語ワークショップ). Kyoto: Kyoto University. 9 September 2007.

  22. Pellard, Thomas. 2007. Miyako: Une langue du sud des Ryūkyū. Paper presented at 21st Paris Meeting on East Asian Linguistics. Paris: CRLAO. 28–30 June 2007.

  23. Antonov, Anton & Pellard, Thomas. 2007. Perspectives historiques sur la phonologie des kango. Paper presented at Journée d’étude internationale “Aspects linguistiques des kango (lexique sino-japonais)” . Bordeaux: Cognition, Langue, Langages, Ergonomie, équipe de recherche en syntaxe et en sémantique à Bordeaux. 12 May 2007.

  24. Pellard, Thomas. 2006. Les voyelles du proto-japonique et les formes adnominales des dialectes anciens et modernes. Paper presented at 20th Paris Meeting on East Asian Linguistics. Paris: CRLAO. 22–24 June 2006.

Contributions à des corpus | Contributions to corpora

  1. Kibe, Nobuko (ed.). 2019. Research report on Miyako Ryukyuan: General study for research and conservation of endangered dialects in Japan. Tachikawa: National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics.
    Open Access Digital Object Identifier https://doi.org/10.15084/00002519

  2. Kibe, Nobuko (ed.). 2019. Research report on the Kikaijima dialects: General study for research and conservation of endangered dialects in Japan. Tachikawa: National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics.
    Open Access Digital Object Identifier https://doi.org/10.15084/00002509

  3. Kibe, Nobuko (木部 暢子) (ed.). 2018. Shōmetsu kiki hōgen no chōsa, hozon no tame no sōgōteki kenkyū: Shimane-ken Okinoshima hōgen chōsa hōkokusho (消滅危機方言の調査・保存のための総合的研究：島根県隠岐の島方言調査報告書) [General study for research and conservation of endangered dialects in Japan: Research report on Okinoshima dialect]. Tachikawa: National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics.
    Open Access Digital Object Identifier https://doi.org/10.15084/00002483

  4. Kibe, Nobuko (木部 暢子) (ed.). 2017. Shōmetsu kiki hōgen no chōsa, hozon no tame no sōgōteki kenkyū: Kume-jima hōgen chōsa hōkokusho (消滅危機方言の調査・保存のための総合的研究：久米島方言調査報告書) [General study for research and conservation of endangered dialects in Japan: Research report on Kume-jima dialect]. Tachikawa: National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics.
    Open Access Digital Object Identifier https://doi.org/10.15084/00002445

  5. Kibe, Nobuko (木部 暢子) (ed.). 2016. Shōmetsu kiki hōgen no chōsa, hozon no tame no sōgōteki kenkyū: Izumo hōgen chōsa hōkokusho (消滅危機方言の調査・保存のための総合的研究：出雲方言調査報告書) [General study for research and conservation of endangered dialects in Japan: Research report on Izumo dialect]. Tachikawa: National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics.
    Open Access Digital Object Identifier https://doi.org/10.15084/00002413

  6. Kibe, Nobuko (木部 暢子) (ed.). 2016. Shōmetsu kiki hōgen no chōsa, hozon no tame no sōgōteki kenkyū: Yoron, Okinoerabu hōgen chōsa hōkokusho (消滅危機方言の調査・保存のための総合的研究：与論・沖永良部方言調査報告書) [General study for research and conservation of endangered dialects in Japan: Research report on Yoron and Okinoerabu dialect]. Tachikawa: National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics.
    Open Access Digital Object Identifier https://doi.org/10.15084/00002469

  7. Kibe, Nobuko (木部 暢子) (ed.). 2013. Shōmetsu kiki hōgen no chōsa, hozon no tame no sōgōteki kenkyū: Hachijō hōgen chōsa hōkokusho (消滅危機方言の調査・保存のための総合的研究：八丈方言調査報告書) [General study for research and conservation of endangered dialects in Japan: Research report on Hachijō dialect]. Tachikawa: National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics.
    Open Access Digital Object Identifier https://doi.org/10.15084/00002399

  8. Kibe, Nobuko (木部 暢子) (ed.). 2012. Shōmetsu kiki hōgen no chōsa, hozon no tame no sōgōteki kenkyū: Minami Ryūkyū Miyako hōgen chōsa hōkokusho (消滅危機方言の調査・保存のための総合的研究：南琉球宮古方言調査報告書) [General research for research and conservation of endangered dialects in Japan: Research report on Miyako Ryukyuan]. Tachikawa: National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics.
    Open Access Digital Object Identifier https://doi.org/10.15084/00002456

  9. Kibe, Nobuko (木部 暢子) & Kubozono, Haruo (窪薗 晴夫) & Shimoji, Kayoko (下地 賀代子) & Lawrence, Wayne (ローレンス ウエイン) & Matsumori, Akiko (松森 晶子) & Takeda, Kōko (竹田 晃子). 2011. Shōmetsu kiki hōgen no chōsa, hozon no tame no sōgōteki kenkyū: Kikai-jima hōgen chōsa hōkokusho (消滅危機方言の調査・保存のための総合的研究：喜界島方言調査報告書) [General study for research and conservation of endangered dialects in Japan: Research report on the Kikaijima dialects]. Tachikawa: National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics.
    Open Access Digital Object Identifier https://doi.org/10.15084/00002424