A Typological and Comparative study of Altaic languages with special emphasis on Mongolian

Research Project

Project/Area Number	12610432
Research Category	Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
Allocation Type	Single-year Grants
Section	一般
Research Field	国語学
Research Institution	KYOTO UNIVERSITY
Principal Investigator	KIDA Akiyoshi Professor of the Graduate Schools of Letters, 文学研究科, 教授 (30131486)
Project Period (FY)	2000 – 2002
Project Status	Completed (Fiscal Year 2002)
Budget Amount *help	¥3,500,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,500,000) Fiscal Year 2002: ¥800,000 (Direct Cost: ¥800,000) Fiscal Year 2001: ¥1,200,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,200,000) Fiscal Year 2000: ¥1,500,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,500,000)
Keywords	Mongolian / Japanese / comparative grammar / chahar dialect / 活用
Research Abstract	This year, I put emphasis on the analysis of the Mongolian grammar. As the Mongolian grammar resembles Xibe grammar, so I did the work to translate the Xibe grammar into Mongolian. Our Xibe grammar is using the frame of Japanese grammar, after all, Mongolian grammar, too, is described with the frame of Japanese grammar. It never says to the grammar that it is complete. Even if one problem solves, the problem appears one after another. At present, at the frame of the Mongolian grammar, the big problem is passing away almost. But, I couldn't conclude yet about how to set the system of the tense. To set Chahar dialect standard, too, is making an effort. At present, tentatively, it created the Mongolian grammar book. If the grammar book is complete, it plans to publish. The investigation of historic literatures like "Yuan Chao Mi Shi", for lack of time, it wasn't too progressive. I will continue the research of the historic literatures.