| Budget Amount *help |
¥3,770,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,900,000、Indirect Cost: ¥870,000)
Fiscal Year 2012: ¥1,430,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,100,000、Indirect Cost: ¥330,000)
Fiscal Year 2011: ¥1,040,000 (Direct Cost: ¥800,000、Indirect Cost: ¥240,000)
Fiscal Year 2010: ¥1,300,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,000,000、Indirect Cost: ¥300,000)
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| Research Abstract |
This project aims to gain a comprehensive understanding of the Haida language, one of the First Nations languages spoken in Haida Gwaii (or the Queen Charlotte Islands) off the northwest coast of British Columbia in Canada. The project, mainly focusing on the morphosyntax of Haida, clarifies some of the verbal elements which are relevant to transitivity such as instrumental prefixes and causative affixes. It also reexamines if the term “polysynthesis” can be applicable to Haida, and concludes that the language should not be characterized as polysynthetic in the proper sense of the term, based on the fact that the number of morphemes per word is constrained by semantic factors as well as by the present-day speakers’ preference for analytic expression to synthetic one.
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