Buckeye East Asian Linguistics (BEAL)
Welcome to the Buckeye East Asian Linguistics (BEAL) website at The Ohio State University! Here, we announce our two primary activities, namely:
- BEAL Forum, a biennial event that was inaugurated in Autumn 2014 with BEAL Forum 1, and
- BEAL Publications, our occasional e-publications, with BEAL 1, the inaugural issue, launched in 2015.
Buckeye East Asian Linguistics (BEAL) was formally created on 6 May 2014 by DEALL faculty members, Professors Mineharu Nakayama, Marjorie Chan and Zhiguo Xie, with initial plans at that meeting to host the first BEAL Forum in October. As planned, BEAL Forum 1 took place that year on 24 October 2014.
BEAL Forum is a biennial event that receives support from Ohio State faculty and graduate students. It aims centrally to showcase research activities in East Asian linguistics in the Buckeye state, with welcoming contributions from those at institutions in neighboring states and beyond.
- BEAL Forum 3 (2018) took place on 22 October 2018 at The Ohio State University.
- BEAL Forum 2 (2016) took place on 21 October 2016 at The Ohio State University.
- BEAL Forum 1 (2014) took place on 24 October 2014 at The Ohio State University.
BEAL Publications — Buckeye East Asian Linguistics Publications — are occasional volumes edited by faculty and students researching in East Asian linguistics.
- BEAL 3 is a compilation of papers based on presentations at BEAL Forum 2 in 2016.
- BEAL 2 is a Festschrift in honor of recently-retired Professor James Marshall Unger.
- BEAL 1, published in 2015 as the inaugural issue of the BEAL publication series, is a compilation of papers based on presentations at BEAL Forum 1 in 2014.