| Budget Amount *help |
¥3,640,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,800,000、Indirect Cost: ¥840,000)
Fiscal Year 2018: ¥1,170,000 (Direct Cost: ¥900,000、Indirect Cost: ¥270,000)
Fiscal Year 2017: ¥1,170,000 (Direct Cost: ¥900,000、Indirect Cost: ¥270,000)
Fiscal Year 2016: ¥1,300,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,000,000、Indirect Cost: ¥300,000)
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| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
This project aims to describe grammatical aspects of the Haida language, a language isolate spoken off the northwest coast of Canada. The main topics concern the domain of the morphosyntax; classifiers and a stativizer suffix in the verbal morphology and noun-modifying constructions are described in-depth to elucidate the relevant phenomena that have not been fully understood in previous studies.
It also investigates changes that the language has undergone for over 100 years by making use of texts collected by John R. Swanton in the beginning of the 20th century and recordings made in 1960s and 70s by Alaska Native Language Center, the University of Alaska. It is made clear that its changes are especially remarkable in the verbal morphology where the evidential suffix and the informational suffix are almost lost in present-day speakers.
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