| Budget Amount *help |
¥4,420,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,400,000、Indirect Cost: ¥1,020,000)
Fiscal Year 2020: ¥1,170,000 (Direct Cost: ¥900,000、Indirect Cost: ¥270,000)
Fiscal Year 2019: ¥1,560,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,200,000、Indirect Cost: ¥360,000)
Fiscal Year 2018: ¥1,690,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,300,000、Indirect Cost: ¥390,000)
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| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
The aim of the present study is to elucidate the common principle of accentuation between Northwest Caucasian and Proto-Balt-Slavic. I elucidated two main topics:
(1) the two language-branches had two accent properties of dominant and recessive on every syllable, and (2) the accent properties may derive from a tonal system in languages such as Japanese. The tonal system of the two language-branches changed into the stress accent system, which is reconstructed by V. A. Dybo in Proto-Balt-Slavic. This hypothesis is assisted by the fact that there is such a language as Dungan ― a dialect of Chinese, in which the position of word stress is predictable by tones.
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