A Comparative Study of the Influence of Glossing on the Historical Development of Japanese and the Languages of Europe

Research Project

Project/Area Number	24K03860
Research Category	Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
Allocation Type	Multi-year Fund
Section	一般
Review Section	Basic Section 02060:Linguistics-related
Research Institution	Tohoku University
Principal Investigator	ジスクマシュー・ヨセフ東北大学, 国際文化研究科, 准教授 (70631761)
Project Period (FY)	2024-04-01 – 2027-03-31
Project Status	Granted (Fiscal Year 2024)
Budget Amount *help	¥4,680,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,600,000、Indirect Cost: ¥1,080,000) Fiscal Year 2026: ¥1,040,000 (Direct Cost: ¥800,000、Indirect Cost: ¥240,000) Fiscal Year 2025: ¥1,560,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,200,000、Indirect Cost: ¥360,000) Fiscal Year 2024: ¥2,080,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,600,000、Indirect Cost: ¥480,000)
Keywords	Historical Linguistics / Glossing / Kanbun Kundoku / Borrowing / Translation
Outline of Research at the Start	This research aims to clarify the connection between the glossing of cosmopolitan language texts and imitational borrowing in Japanese and the vernacular languages of Europe. Japanese glosses of Literary Sinitic texts and English, German and Irish glosses of Latin texts will be analyzed, both hands-on and through secondary sources, to collect examples of imitational borrowings such as loan translations, loan meanings, loan derivations and loan constructions. The borrowing strategies in each language will then be compared and contrasted to create a universal model of borrowing through glossing.