1997 Fiscal Year Final Research Report Summary
Dialectal and Historical Background of the Irregular Verbs of the Present-day Japanese
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08610424
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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 | Tokyo University of Foreign Studies |
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Principal Investigator |
INOUE Fumio Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, Faculty of Foreign Studies, Professor, 外国語学科, 教授 (40011332)
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| Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) |
TAKAHASHI Kenji Hiroshima University, Faculty of Scool Education, Assistant Prof., 学校教育学部, 助教授 (10137317)
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| Project Period (FY) |
1996 – 1997
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| Keywords | Dialect / Irregular verbs / Linguistic geography |
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| Research Abstract |
The purpose of this study is to elucidate the hitherto ignored phenomena of irregular verbs in the dialects and in the past records in Japanese. Due to the recent standardization of Japanese, dialectal features sre quickly diminishing. Some of these irregularities have been ignored even by dialectologists because they are not enough interested in irregular verbs in dialectal grammar.
In this study many examples were gathered from postal surver from students all over Japan. A field survey was also conducted in Okinawa where grammatical system is quite different from Main-land Japanese.
A book was published as a report for the recent distribution of various grammatical phenomena. The report is based on surveys in many junior-high-schools all over Japan. A popularizing book was aiso published from Iwanami publishers, named as "NIhongo Watching" based on the results of the survey.
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