| Budget Amount *help |
¥4,030,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,100,000、Indirect Cost: ¥930,000)
Fiscal Year 2014: ¥1,040,000 (Direct Cost: ¥800,000、Indirect Cost: ¥240,000)
Fiscal Year 2013: ¥910,000 (Direct Cost: ¥700,000、Indirect Cost: ¥210,000)
Fiscal Year 2012: ¥910,000 (Direct Cost: ¥700,000、Indirect Cost: ¥210,000)
Fiscal Year 2011: ¥1,170,000 (Direct Cost: ¥900,000、Indirect Cost: ¥270,000)
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| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
South-western China is a multiethnic area. We can find a variety of languages and cultures especially in the western Sichuan area, where at least 12 languages with no writing tradition, small number of speakers and few preceding studies are spoken.
I made fieldwork there in order to bring out the details of these languages. Especially I conducted a detailed research on the nDrapa language and the rGyalrong language.
Moreover, I compared the information collected in my fieldwork with documents of neighboring languages to analyze the distribution of linguistic characteristics. In the result, I made clear the areal distribution and the process of the formation of characteristic phenomena, such as the point-of-view system and deverbalization through reduplication.
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