| Project/Area Number |
13610651
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Research Field |
言語学・音声学
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| Research Institution | Chiba University |
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Principal Investigator |
TAGUCHI Yoshihisa Chiba University, Faculty of Letters, Associate Professor, 文学部, 助教授 (10291303)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2001 – 2003
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| Project Status |
Completed (Fiscal Year 2003)
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| Budget Amount *help |
¥2,300,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,300,000)
Fiscal Year 2003: ¥800,000 (Direct Cost: ¥800,000)
Fiscal Year 2002: ¥500,000 (Direct Cost: ¥500,000)
Fiscal Year 2001: ¥1,000,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,000,000)
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| Keywords | Hmong-Mien languages / Historical linguistics / East Asian languages / 東アジア諸言語 / 苗瑶語 / 比較文法 / 名詞句の構造 |
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| Research Abstract |
The report includes two papers. One of them is a comparative study of the Hmong-Mien prefixes. The other paper is a study of genetic relationship of Pana, which is a recently described Hmong-Mien language. In the first paper, the researcher pays a special attention to the prefixes of the Hmong-Mien languages. This is because prefixiation is one of a few grammatical processes that the Hmong-Mien languages have, and it provides a clue to reconstructing the syllable structure of Proto-Hmong-Mien. Based on the database of the Hmong-Mien prefixes, the researcher investigates the following three points : (1) How the prefixes are distributed ; (2) if the prefixes in the dialects correspond to one another; (3) if some common functions are found. The results are (1) the distribution is dense in the northwest, but sparse in the southeast ; (2) one prefix *q[a]-is seen in most dialects, and is to be reconstructed in Proto-Hmong-Mien ; (3) thee prefixes of the Hmong-Mien languages have the function of noun classification, but this is different in nature from that of classifiers. Some grammatical forms other than classifiers must have provided a way to classify nouns in the proto-language. The prefixes are considered to be relics of these forms.
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