• Search Research Projects
  • Search Researchers
  • How to Use
  1. Back to previous page

Morpho-Syntactic Studies on Verb Constructions in Niger-Congo Languages

Research Project

Project/Area Number 16K02672
Research Category

Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)

Allocation TypeMulti-year Fund
Section一般
Research Field Linguistics
Research InstitutionOsaka University

Principal Investigator

Komori Junko  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), 准教授 (10376824)

Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) 米田 信子  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 ABE Maya  
Project Period (FY) 2016-04-01 – 2019-03-31
Project Status Completed (Fiscal Year 2018)
Budget Amount *help
¥4,550,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,500,000、Indirect Cost: ¥1,050,000)
Fiscal Year 2018: ¥910,000 (Direct Cost: ¥700,000、Indirect Cost: ¥210,000)
Fiscal Year 2017: ¥1,820,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,400,000、Indirect Cost: ¥420,000)
Fiscal Year 2016: ¥1,820,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,400,000、Indirect Cost: ¥420,000)
Keywordsニジェール・コンゴ語族 / 動詞派生形 / 受動態 / 非人称受動文 / 自他交替 / バントゥ諸語 / ヨルバ語 / バンバラ語 / スワヒリ語 / 統語論 / 形態論 / 受動接辞
Outline of Final Research Achievements

The aim of this project is to examine the verb derivational forms and construction types in the languages of the Niger-Congo language family in Africa. Especially we focused on the passive forms and passive constructions and we found that three types of passive constructions are normally recognized in Niger-Congo languages: 1) Typical passive constructions,
as in Bantu languages, which have derivational passive verbs. 2) Impersonal passive constructions, widely attested throughout the family from West African languages to Bantu languages, which have an impersonal subject in an active sentence with a patient noun as an object. 3) Other “passive-like” constructions, found in the Mande and Gur language branches, which have transitive/intransitive verbs with a patient noun as a subject and an arbitral agent noun as an adjunct. We suspect that there would have been a historical change from 1 to 3.

Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements

本研究は、ニジェール・コンゴ語族の動詞の形態と統語構造に関する類型論的な研究をおこなうものである。言語研究においては、広く世界の言語を対象にしなければ、その本質の解明には届かない。アフリカの諸言語については、研究されている言語自体が少なく、解明されていない点も多い。アフリカの諸言語の記述研究は、日本でほとんど知られていない言語の知見を深めるという点で意義深い。また、「受動文」という特徴を取り上げてアフリカの言語の特徴を研究することは、「受動文」という、よく知られた言語現象についての知見を深めることになり、言語学的にも意義深い知見を与えることになる。

Report

(4 results)
  • 2018 Annual Research Report   Final Research Report ( PDF )
  • 2017 Research-status Report
  • 2016 Research-status Report
  • Research Products

    (28 results)

All 2019 2018 2017 2016

All Journal Article (7 results) (of which Int'l Joint Research: 1 results,  Open Access: 3 results,  Peer Reviewed: 2 results,  Acknowledgement Compliant: 2 results) Presentation (16 results) (of which Int'l Joint Research: 8 results,  Invited: 3 results) Book (5 results)

  • [Journal Article] バンバラ語の自他交替と自動詞の特徴について―「受動文」から考察する2019

    • Author(s)
      小森淳子
    • Journal Title

      スワヒリ&アフリカ研究

      Volume: 30 Pages: 33-48

    • NAID

      120006709179

    • Related Report
      2018 Annual Research Report
    • Open Access
  • [Journal Article] The Derivational Forms and Sentence Constructions of Passives in Niger-Congo Languages2018

    • Author(s)
      小森淳子
    • Journal Title

      言語文化研究

      Volume: 44 Pages: 33-53

    • DOI

      10.18910/68012

    • NAID

      120006452284

    • ISSN
      03874478
    • Year and Date
      2018-03-31
    • Related Report
      2018 Annual Research Report 2017 Research-status Report
    • Peer Reviewed / Open Access
  • [Journal Article] Functions of verb reduplication and verb doubling in Swahili2018

    • Author(s)
      GIBSON, Hannah and Nobuko Yoneda
    • Journal Title

      The Journal of Asian and African Studies

      Volume: 96 Pages: 5-27

    • NAID

      120006555345

    • Related Report
      2018 Annual Research Report
    • 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

    • Related Report
      2017 Research-status Report
  • [Journal Article] バンバラ語のアクセントについて2017

    • Author(s)
      小森 淳子
    • Journal Title

      スワヒリ&アフリカ研究

      Volume: 28 Pages: 91-108

    • NAID

      120006353157

    • Related Report
      2016 Research-status Report
    • Acknowledgement Compliant
  • [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

    • Related Report
      2016 Research-status Report
    • Acknowledgement Compliant
  • [Journal Article] アフリカ諸語研究最前線2016

    • Author(s)
      小森 淳子
    • Journal Title

      生産と技術

      Volume: 68-4 Pages: 83-86

    • Related Report
      2016 Research-status Report
    • Open Access
  • [Presentation] Proto-Bantu subject and topic2018

    • Author(s)
      YONEDA, Nobuko and Yukiko Morimoto
    • Organizer
      International Conference on Reconstructing Proto-Bantu Grammar
    • Related Report
      2018 Annual Research Report
    • Int'l Joint Research / Invited
  • [Presentation] Multiple object constructions in Ganda2018

    • Author(s)
      YONEDA, Nobuko and Judith Nakayiza
    • Organizer
      The 9th World Congress of African Linguistics
    • Related Report
      2018 Annual Research Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] Cross-Bantu Variation in the Properties of Subjects2018

    • Author(s)
      MORIMOTO, Yukiko and Nobuko Yoneda
    • Organizer
      The 9th World Congress of African Linguistics
    • Related Report
      2018 Annual Research Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] Degrees of Topicality in Bantu Subjects2018

    • Author(s)
      YONEDA, Nobuko and Yukiko Morimoto
    • Organizer
      The 7th International Conference on Bantu Languages.
    • Related Report
      2018 Annual Research Report
    • 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
    • Related Report
      2018 Annual Research Report
    • 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
    • Related Report
      2018 Annual Research Report
    • 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
    • Related Report
      2018 Annual Research Report
  • [Presentation] バンバラ語の動詞の「他動性」に関する考察-他動詞と自動詞を分けるもの2018

    • Author(s)
      小森淳子
    • Organizer
      日本アフリカ学会第55回学術大会
    • Related Report
      2018 Annual Research Report
  • [Presentation] Exclusive focus sensitive particles in Herero (Bantu R31)2018

    • Author(s)
      Yoneda Nobuko
    • Organizer
      The 20th International Congress of Linguists
    • Related Report
      2017 Research-status Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] ニジェール・コンゴ諸言語の動詞の態(Voice)に関する類型論的考察2017

    • Author(s)
      小森 淳子
    • Organizer
      日本アフリカ学会第54回学術大会
    • Related Report
      2017 Research-status Report
  • [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
    • Related Report
      2017 Research-status Report
  • [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. 適塾
    • Related Report
      2017 Research-status Report
    • Invited
  • [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
    • Related Report
      2017 Research-status Report
  • [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.
    • Related Report
      2017 Research-status Report
    • Invited
  • [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、福岡市、福岡県
    • Year and Date
      2016-12-03
    • Related Report
      2016 Research-status Report
  • [Presentation] Noun-modifying construction: the forms and the head-modifier relation2016

    • Author(s)
      YONEDA, Nobuko
    • Organizer
      The 6th International Conference on Bantu Languages
    • Place of Presentation
      ヘルシンキ大学、ヘルシンキ市、フィンランド
    • Year and Date
      2016-06-22
    • Related Report
      2016 Research-status Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Book] Descriptive Materials of Morphosyntactic Microvariation in Bantu2019

    • Author(s)
      Shinagawa, Daisuke and Yuko Abe (eds.)
    • Publisher
      Tokyo: ILCAA
    • ISBN
      9784863372979
    • Related Report
      2018 Annual Research Report
  • [Book] Levels in Clause Linkage: A crosslinguistic survey (Yoneda, Nobuko “Herero.”)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
      de Gruyter Mouton
    • ISBN
      9783110516777
    • Related Report
      2017 Research-status Report
  • [Book] Handbook of Japanese Contrastive Linguistics (Handbooks of Japanese language and linguistics 6) (Yoneda, Nobuko "Noun-modifying constructions in Swahili and Japanese.")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, 他12名
    • Total Pages
      722
    • Publisher
      de Gruyter Mouton
    • ISBN
      9781614514077
    • Related Report
      2017 Research-status Report
  • [Book] The conjoint/disjoint alternation in Bantu2017

    • Author(s)
      Fiedler, Hannah Gibson, Claire Halpert, Larry M. Hyman, Andriana Koumbarou, Nancy C. Kula, Sophie Manus, Lutz Marten, Yukiko Morimoto, Jean Paul Ngoboka, Ernest Nshemezimana, Jenneke van der Wal, Nobuko Yoneda, Jochen Zeller, Sabine Zerbian
    • Total Pages
      458
    • Publisher
      De Gruyter Mouton
    • Related Report
      2016 Research-status Report
  • [Book] Levels in clause linkage: A crosslinguistics survey2017

    • 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
      De Gruyter Mouton
    • Related Report
      2016 Research-status Report

URL: 

Published: 2016-04-21   Modified: 2020-03-30  

Information User Guide FAQ News Terms of Use Attribution of KAKENHI

Powered by NII kakenhi