| Project/Area Number |
20K00666
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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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| Review Section |
Basic Section 02080:English linguistics-related
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| Research Institution | Osaka Metropolitan University (2022-2023)
Osaka City University (2020-2021) |
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Principal Investigator |
豊田 純一 大阪公立大学, 大学院文学研究科, 教授 (60723723)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2020-04-01 – 2025-03-31
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| Project Status |
Granted (Fiscal Year 2023)
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| Budget Amount *help |
¥3,770,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,900,000、Indirect Cost: ¥870,000)
Fiscal Year 2024: ¥910,000 (Direct Cost: ¥700,000、Indirect Cost: ¥210,000)
Fiscal Year 2023: ¥1,040,000 (Direct Cost: ¥800,000、Indirect Cost: ¥240,000)
Fiscal Year 2022: ¥1,170,000 (Direct Cost: ¥900,000、Indirect Cost: ¥270,000)
Fiscal Year 2021: ¥260,000 (Direct Cost: ¥200,000、Indirect Cost: ¥60,000)
Fiscal Year 2020: ¥390,000 (Direct Cost: ¥300,000、Indirect Cost: ¥90,000)
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| Keywords | passive voice / language contact / grammaticalisation / dialect / dialectal mixing / Old Norse / get-passive |
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| Outline of Research at the Start |
This research aims to clarify the origin of the get-passive in English by looking into the language contacts within the Great Britain. Contacts here involves Old Norse and various forms of English dialects, all of which can be considered dialectal variations of the Germanic language.
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| Outline of Annual Research Achievements |
An initial field work has been made in the south island of New Zealand. It may not be an ideal location for a fieldwork, but it was very useful. Due to the political situation over the Eurasia, a visit to Europe was shied away this year. This fieldwork opened up a new array of possible future research and it was found out that data collected in New Zealand can offer more than one could expect and further investigation will be made this year. Data from New Zealand will be compared with those collected in Europe. What is useful is that a crucial factor in this research, i.e. contacts with the Scandinavians in the past, can be also observed in down under and what is found in New Zealand can be a useful indicator for the cases found in Europe.
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| Current Status of Research Progress |
Current Status of Research Progress
3: Progress in research has been slightly delayed.
Reason
Some useful progress have been made by now, and I can now see that there is a fairly strong link between Old Norse influence (or in a broader sense, the Scandinavian languages) and the emergence of the get-passive through the data in certain dialects. However, due to the lack of time to carry out more field works in Europe, the result is slightly less than what I expected.
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| Strategy for Future Research Activity |
My idea can be more thoroughly examined by further comparison with other dialectal forms. I will need other field works to make reliable comparison, and perhaps regions such as Ireland/Scotland and the north island of New Zealand may be destinations for further comparisons.
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