| Project/Area Number |
24520420
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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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| Research Field |
Linguistics
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| Research Institution | Tokyo University of Foreign Studies |
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Principal Investigator |
NAKAYAMA Toshihide 東京外国語大学, アジア・アフリカ言語文化研究所, 教授 (70334448)
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| Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) |
NAKAYAMA Kumiko 東京外国語大学, アジア・アフリカ言語文化研究所, 研究員 (40401426)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2012-04-01 – 2015-03-31
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| Project Status |
Completed (Fiscal Year 2014)
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| Budget Amount *help |
¥4,940,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,800,000、Indirect Cost: ¥1,140,000)
Fiscal Year 2014: ¥1,560,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,200,000、Indirect Cost: ¥360,000)
Fiscal Year 2013: ¥1,560,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,200,000、Indirect Cost: ¥360,000)
Fiscal Year 2012: ¥1,820,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,400,000、Indirect Cost: ¥420,000)
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| Keywords | 複統合性 / 形態論 / ヌートカ語 / 危機言語 / 類型論 / カナダ / 形態法 / ワカシュ諸語 / 国際調査 / 形態統語法 / ワカシュ語族 / 記述言語学 / 北米先住民 |
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| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
The goal of this project was to examine the nature of morphological complexity in Nuuchahnulth (Wakashan: British Columbia, Canada) in hope of making contribution to understanding of the diversity of polysynthesis. As made clear in some recent studies, there is a great degree of variation among ‘polysynthetic languages’ in terms of the kind and degree of morphological complexity. Nuuchahnulth represents a rather unusual type that relies almost exclusively on affixation of suffixes with rich semantic contents (lexical suffixes).
In this project, polysynthesis in Nuuchahnulth was examined in detail, using databases of natural discourse data and lexicon, from two perspectives: (1) the range of combination and configuration (both structural and semantic) of lexical suffixes that is allowed in a word; (2) distribution and functions of polysynthetic words in discourse.
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