Microvariation study of subordinate clauses in Bantu languages

• Project/Area Number: 16K02627
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Linguistics
• Research Institution: Osaka University
• Principal Investigator: Yoneda Nobuko 大阪大学, 言語文化研究科(言語社会専攻、日本語・日本文化専攻), 教授 (90352955)
• Research Collaborator: Makino Yuka 大阪大学, 大学院言語文化研究科 ; Lutz Marten ロンドン大学SOAS, 教授 ; Koen Bostoen ゲント大学, 教授 ; Morimoto Yukiko ベルリン・フンボルト大学, 研究員
• Project Period (FY): 2016-04-01 – 2019-03-31
• Project Status: Completed (Fiscal Year 2018)
• Budget Amount: ¥4,420,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,400,000、Indirect Cost: ¥1,020,000); Fiscal Year 2018: ¥1,300,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,000,000、Indirect Cost: ¥300,000); Fiscal Year 2017: ¥1,690,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,300,000、Indirect Cost: ¥390,000); Fiscal Year 2016: ¥1,430,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,100,000、Indirect Cost: ¥330,000)
• Keywords: バントゥ諸語 / 従属節 / 名詞修飾節 / 動詞補文 / 複文 / マイクロ・バリエーション / 国際研究者交流 / 国際共同研究 / 名詞修飾構文 / 条件節 / マイクロバリエーション / 英国 / タンザニア / 言語学 / 形態統語論 / 記述言語学

Outline of Final Research Achievements

This is a comparative study of subordinate clauses in Bantu languages, spoken in the south of the equator in the African continent, and the purpose of this study is to explored the semantic relations (between head and modifier, between clauses) and the form of subordinate clauses. This study has revealed; (1) the variation in the the range of semantic relations of the head nouns which can be modified by the relative clauses, (2) the tendency of the continuity between verbal complements and appositive clauses which can be observed in certain type of languages. The results have been presented at some international conferences, and some papers have been published.

Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements

バントゥ諸語は広域に分布しているわりに文法的に類似性が高いと言われてきたが、実際にはその中に多様なバリエーションが見られることを本研究は明らかにした。特にこれまでの研究対象が主に単文であったことに鑑み、本研究が従属節に注目したことは、バントゥ諸語における複文研究を前進させるものであり、その学術的意義は大きい。
また本研究を国際共同研究に展開されていくことも目標にしてきたが、研究過程で海外研究協力者たちとの新たな共同研究をスタートさせることができた。本研究を通して国際的な研究ネットワークを拡大し、これまで以上に緊密で生産的な関係にできたことは日本のアフリカ言語学にとって大きな貢献である。

Research Products

• [Int'l Joint Research] ロンドン大学/エセックス大学(英国)
• [Int'l Joint Research] マケレレ大学(ウガンダ)
• [Int'l Joint Research] ベルリン・フンボルト大学(ドイツ)
• [Int'l Joint Research] ロンドン大学SOAS(英国)
• [Int'l Joint Research] マケレレ大学(ウガンダ)
• [Int'l Joint Research] ダルエスサラーム大学(タンザニア)
• [Int'l Joint Research] ベルリン・フンボルト大学(ドイツ)
• [Int'l Joint Research] ロンドン大学SOAS(英国)
• [Int'l Joint Research] ダルエスサラーム大学(タンザニア)
• [Int'l Joint Research] マケレレ大学(ウガンダ)
• [Journal Article] Functions of Verb Reduplication and Verb Doubling in Swahili (2018)
  • Author(s): GIBSON, Hannah and Nobuko Yoneda
  • Journal Title: アジア・アフリカ言語文化研究 Volume: 96 Pages: 5-27
  • DOI: 10.15026/92788
  • NAID: 120006555345
  • ISSN: 03872807
  • URL: https://tufs.repo.nii.ac.jp/records/2156
  • Year and Date: 2018-09-30
  • Peer Reviewed / Open Access / Int'l Joint Research
• [Journal Article] “Functions of verb reduplication and verb doubling in Swahili.” (2018)
  • Author(s): GIBSON, Hannah and Nobuko Yoneda.
  • Journal Title: The Journal of Asian and African Studies. Volume: 96
  • NAID: 120006555345
  • Peer Reviewed / Int'l Joint Research
• [Journal Article] 「日本語の視点からアフリカ諸語を見る －日本語とバントゥ諸語の対照研究－」 (2017)
  • Author(s): 米田信子
  • Journal Title: 適塾 Volume: 50 Pages: 45-52
• [Journal Article] ヘレロ語とスワヒリ語の限定を表すとりたて小辞に関する試論 (2017)
  • Author(s): 米田信子
  • Journal Title: スワヒリ＆アフリカ研究 Volume: 28 Pages: 72-90
  • NAID: 120006353156
  • Acknowledgement Compliant
• [Presentation] Proto-Bantu subject and topic. (2018)
  • Author(s): YONEDA, Nobuko and Yukiko MORIMOTO
  • Organizer: International Conference on Reconstructing Proto-Bantu Grammar
  • Int'l Joint Research / Invited
• [Presentation] Multiple object constructions in Ganda. (2018)
  • Author(s): YONEDA, Nobuko and Judith NAKAYIZA
  • Organizer: The 9th World Congress of African Linguistics.
  • Int'l Joint Research
• [Presentation] Cross-Bantu Variation in the Properties of Subjects. (2018)
  • Author(s): MORIMOTO, Yukiko and Nobuko YONEDA
  • Organizer: The 9th World Congress of African Linguistics.
  • Int'l Joint Research
• [Presentation] Degrees of Topicality in Bantu Subjects. (2018)
  • Author(s): YONEDA, Nobuko and Yukiko MORIMOTO
  • Organizer: The 7th International Conference on Bantu Languages.
  • Int'l Joint Research
• [Presentation] Exclusive particles ‘only’ in Swahili - tu and peke yake- (2018)
  • Author(s): YONEDA, Nobuko and Kumiko MIYAZAKI.
  • Organizer: The 7th International Conference on Bantu Languages.
  • Int'l Joint Research
• [Presentation] Exclusive focus sensitive particles in Herero (Bantu R31) (2018)
  • Author(s): YONEDA, Nobuko
  • Organizer: The 20th International Congress of Linguists.
  • Int'l Joint Research
• [Presentation] スワヒリ語ザンジバル方言における移動動詞としてのpandishaとshusha－季節風による「上下」の関係－ (2018)
  • Author(s): 米田信子・初田漠．
  • Organizer: 日本アフリカ学会第55回学術大会
• [Presentation] Multiple object constructions in Ganda. (2018)
  • Author(s): YONEDA, Nobuko and Judith NAKAYIZA
  • Organizer: The 9th World Congress of African Linguistics
  • Int'l Joint Research
• [Presentation] Cross-Bantu Variation in the Properties of Subjects. (2018)
  • Author(s): MORIMOTO, Yukiko and Nobuko YONEDA
  • Organizer: The 9th World Congress of African Linguistics
  • Int'l Joint Research
• [Presentation] Exclusive particles“only”in Swahili - tu and peke yake- (2018)
  • Author(s): YONEDA, Nobuko and Kumiko MIYAZAKI
  • Organizer: The 7th International Conference on Bantu Languages.
  • Int'l Joint Research
• [Presentation] Exclusive focus sensitive particles in Herero (Bantu R31) (2018)
  • Author(s): YONEDA, Nobuko
  • Organizer: The 20th International Congress of Linguists
  • Int'l Joint Research
• [Presentation] スワヒリ語圏アフリカにおける多言語状況の実態―言語接触状況下での多様な言語現象から捉える― (2017)
  • Author(s): 品川大輔・米田信子・安部麻矢・沓掛紗弥加
  • Organizer: 日本言語学会第154回大会
  • Place of Presentation: 首都大学東京
  • Year and Date: 2017-06-25
• [Presentation] ガンダ語の多重目的語構文 －3つの目的語の現れ方― (2017)
  • Author(s): 米田信子
  • Organizer: 日本アフリカ学会第54回学術大会
  • Place of Presentation: 信州大学
  • Year and Date: 2017-05-20
• [Presentation] バントゥ諸語の名詞修飾構文 ―意味関係と形式― (2017)
  • Author(s): 米田信子
  • Organizer: Prosody & Grammar Festa
  • Place of Presentation: 国立国語研究所
  • Year and Date: 2017-02-19
• [Presentation] スワヒリ語の名詞修飾節 －2種類の「関係節」の比較から－ (2017)
  • Author(s): 米田信子
  • Organizer: Nominalization Festival 3
• [Presentation] スワヒリ語と民族語の言語接触による文法レベルの影響 (2017)
  • Author(s): 米田信子
  • Organizer: 日本言語学会第154回大会（ワークショップ「スワヒリ語圏アフリカにおける多言語状況の実態―言語接触状況下での多様な言語現象から捉える― 」）
• [Presentation] 日本語の視点からアフリカ諸語を見る－日本語とバントゥ諸語の対照言語研究 (2017)
  • Author(s): 米田信子
  • Organizer: 洪庵忌
  • Invited
• [Presentation] ガンダ語の多重目的語構文－3つの目的語の現れ方－ (2017)
  • Author(s): 米田信子
  • Organizer: 日本アフリカ学会第54回学術大会
• [Presentation] バントゥ諸語の関係節に見られるマイクロバリエーション (2016)
  • Author(s): 米田信子
  • Organizer: 日本言語学会第153回大会
  • Place of Presentation: 福岡大学
  • Year and Date: 2016-12-03
• [Presentation] Noun-modifying construction: the forms and the head-modifier relation. (2016)
  • Author(s): Yoneda Nobuko
  • Organizer: The 6th International Conference on Bantu Languages
  • Place of Presentation: ヘルシンキ大学、ヘルシンキ、フィンランド
  • Year and Date: 2016-06-22
  • Int'l Joint Research
• [Book] Descriptive Materials of Morphosyntactic Microvariation in Bantu (2019)
  • Author(s): Sinagawa, Daisuke, Yuko Abe, Yukiko Morimoto, Maya Abe, Makoto Furumoto, Shigeki Kaji, Kumiko Miyazaki, Junko Komori, Judith Nakayiza, and Nobuko Yoneda
  • Publisher: Research Institute of Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa (ILCAA), Tokyo University of Foreign Studies.
  • ISBN: 9784863372979
• [Book] Handbook of Japanese Contrastive Linguistics (Handbooks of Japanese language and linguistics 6) (2018)
  • Author(s): PARDESHI, Prashant, Taro KAGEYAMA, Masayoshi SHIBATANI, Ryuichi WASHIO, Sung-Yeo CHUNG, Atsuhiko KATO, Li SHEN, Yuu KURIBAYASHI, Anna BUGAEVA, Yo MATSUMOTO, Kiyoko TAKAHASHI, Kazuhiro KAWACHI, Yoshiko MATSUMOTO, Bernard COMRIE, Nobuko YONEDA, and other 12
  • Total Pages: 722
  • Publisher: Berlin: de Gruyter Mouton
  • ISBN: 9781614514077
• [Book] Levels in Clause Linkage: A crosslinguistic survey (2018)
  • Author(s): TSUNODA Tasaku, Shiho EBIHARA, Atsuhiko KATO, Kazuhiro KAWACHI, Kim EUNAE, Kazuyuki KIRYU, Yasuhiro KOJIMA, Tadataka NAGAI, Midori OSUMI, Kan SASAKI, Satoko SHIRAI, Kiyoko TAKAHASHI, Mie TSUNODA, Yoshiho YASUGI, Nobuko YONEDA
  • Total Pages: 892
  • Publisher: Berlin: de Gruyter Mouton
  • ISBN: 9783110516777
• [Book] The conjoint/disjoint alternation in Bantu. (Chapter 15: Conjoint/Disjoint Distinction and Focus in Matengo (N13).) (2017)
  • Author(s): Larry Hyman, Jenneke van der Wal, Koen Bostoen, Toni Cook, Denis Creissels, Maud Devos , Ines Fiedler, Hannah Gibson, Claire Halpert, Andriana Koumbarou, Nancy C. Kula, Sophie Manus, Lutz Marten, Yukiko Morimoto, Jean Paul Ngoboka, Ernest Nshemezimana, Nobuko Yoneda, Jochen Zeller, Sabine Zerbian.
  • Total Pages: 458
  • Publisher: Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter
• [Book] Levels in clause linkage. A crosslinguistics survey. (Chapter 19: Herero) (2017)
  • Author(s): Shiho Ebihara, Atsuhiko Kato, Kazuhiro Kawachi, Kim Eunae, Kazuyuki Kiryu, Yasuhiro Kojima, Tadataka Nagai, Midori Osumi, Kan Sasaki, Satoko Shirai, Kiyoko Takahashi, Mie Tsunoda, Tasaku Tsunoda, Yoshiho Yasugi, Nobuko Yoneda.
  • Publisher: Berlin & Boston: De Gruyter Mouton