1997 Fiscal Year Final Research Report Summary
A Study of the History of the Case Marker, Comparing Historical Records with Dialects.
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07610417
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Research Field |
国語学
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| Research Institution | Tohoku University |
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Principal Investigator |
KOBAYASHI Takashi Tohoku University, Faculty of Arts and Letters Assistant Professor, 文学部, 助教授 (00161993)
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| Project Period (FY) |
1995 – 1997
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| Keywords | history of grammar / case-marker / dialect / peripheric distribution / East-West opposition / Grammar Atlas of Japanese Dialects |
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| Research Abstract |
In this study I investigated the hitory of the Japanese case-marker, comparing historical records with dialects.
The peripheric distribution, in which the use of Eastern words do not correspond exactly to those of Western words, is an important clue to explain the developmental processes of differences between Eastern and Western dialects in Japanese. The dialectal variation of "sa", the case marker which indicates direction in Tohoku and Kyushu dialects, is an example of such a peripheric distribution. I examine the developmental processe of the dialectal variation of "sa". In conclusion, I argue that the classical variation of "sa" , which had spread from Kyoto across the nation, remains almost intact in form as well as meaning in Kyushu dialect, but in Tohoku dialect, it has undergone a considerable change. I argue that this phenomenon reveals one of the main patterns of developmental processes of the Japanese dialect : old expressions of the classical Japanese of Kyoto dialect can be found unchanged in Western Japan, while they have been replaced by their reborn forms in Eastern Japan.
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