| Project/Area Number |
15K02473
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
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| Allocation Type | Multi-year Fund |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Research Field |
Linguistics
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| Research Institution | Tokyo University of Foreign Studies |
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Principal Investigator |
Nakayama Toshihide 東京外国語大学, アジア・アフリカ言語文化研究所, 教授 (70334448)
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| Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) |
中山 久美子 東京外国語大学, アジア・アフリカ言語文化研究所, 研究員 (40401426)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2015-04-01 – 2018-03-31
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| Project Status |
Completed (Fiscal Year 2017)
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| Budget Amount *help |
¥4,420,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,400,000、Indirect Cost: ¥1,020,000)
Fiscal Year 2017: ¥1,430,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,100,000、Indirect Cost: ¥330,000)
Fiscal Year 2016: ¥1,430,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,100,000、Indirect Cost: ¥330,000)
Fiscal Year 2015: ¥1,560,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,200,000、Indirect Cost: ¥360,000)
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| Keywords | ヌートカ語 / 危機言語 / 節連結 / 統語論 / ワカシュ諸語 / 北米先住民言語 / 節結合 / 節構造 |
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| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
This study examined the characteristics of syntactic organization of Nuuchahnulth, an endangered indigenous language of Canada, with a focus on the structural domains of clause and clause combining. A clause in Nuuchahnulth is very limited in its internal structure. Many of meanings that could be expressed within a clause using a various phrases (prepositional, adverbial, or nominal) in English must be expressed with clause combining in Nuuchahnulth. This difference in encodability seems to be related to the fact that the lexical category distinction is much less developed in Nuuchahnulth. The clause is often assumed to be universally at the center of syntactic organization. The findings in this study, however, show that it is not always the case, and that the role of the clause in syntax depends on the structural type of the language.
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