Budget Amount *help |
¥9,750,000 (Direct Cost: ¥7,500,000、Indirect Cost: ¥2,250,000)
Fiscal Year 2014: ¥1,690,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,300,000、Indirect Cost: ¥390,000)
Fiscal Year 2013: ¥1,690,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,300,000、Indirect Cost: ¥390,000)
Fiscal Year 2012: ¥1,950,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,500,000、Indirect Cost: ¥450,000)
Fiscal Year 2011: ¥2,210,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,700,000、Indirect Cost: ¥510,000)
Fiscal Year 2010: ¥2,210,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,700,000、Indirect Cost: ¥510,000)
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Outline of Final Research Achievements |
This study compares Khoe languages in order to determine whether a number of anomalous features, linguistic and social anthropological, found only in the G//ana group should be interpreted as a result of regular/plausible historical change or not. The two foci of interest are person-gender-number marking systems and kinship systems. The study concludes that the PGN marking systems and relating phenomena to them, such as the extent of mobility of linguistic elements, exhibit a continuum in the family, whereas the distribution pattern of features relating to kinship systems is discontinuous and could not have been generated without influence from outside the Khoe family.
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