Research on process of formation and acceptance of neologism in Swiss Romansh

Research Project

Project/Area Number	14510600
Research Category	Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
Allocation Type	Single-year Grants
Section	一般
Research Field	その他の外国語・外国文学
Research Institution	TOKYO UNIVERSITY OF FOREIGN STUDIES
Principal Investigator	TOMIMORI Nobuo Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, Faculty of Foreign Languages, Professor, 外国語学部, 教授 (50122643)
Project Period (FY)	2002 – 2003
Project Status	Completed (Fiscal Year 2003)
Budget Amount *help	¥1,500,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,500,000) Fiscal Year 2003: ¥700,000 (Direct Cost: ¥700,000) Fiscal Year 2002: ¥800,000 (Direct Cost: ¥800,000)
Keywords	Swiss Romansh / romance type word formation / linguistic consciousness / language contacts / germanic type word formation / process of acceptance / interference phenomena / creation of neologisms / ロマンス語的な語形成法 / ゲルマン語的な造語法 / ロマンシュ語 / 新語 / 語彙調査 / 言語干渉 / 受容プロセス / 語形成 / 言語意識 / 言語政策
Research Abstract	This research concerns a lexical study of neologisms in modern Swiss Romansh with special regards to language contact phenomena between this language and German and/or Italian. Firstly, in 2002, we could successfully prepare a linguistic corpus from modem literature and administrative documents as well as from web-site texts, carefully selectioned for this purpose. Secondly, in 2003, we achieved a close observation of creation process of new words and expressions by executing a special questionnaire on the informants' linguistic consciousness. We could also apply this newly built corpus to a lexical data base by use of a customized kwic analyser in order to investigate a structural interference between romance type word formations and germanic type ones. The results of this analysis will be soon printed with particular reference to a socio-cultural background of Romansh language crisis in modern times.