2001 Fiscal Year Final Research Report Summary
Contrastive Studies of Grammaticalization and Categorization in East Asian Languages
| Project/Area Number |
11410128
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B)
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Research Field |
言語学・音声学
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| Research Institution | The University of Tokyo |
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Principal Investigator |
OGOSHI Naoki The University of Tokyo, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Assistant Professor, 大学院・総合文化研究科, 助教授 (90152454)
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| Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) |
MURAKAMI Yutaro Ibaraki University, Faculty of Engineering, Associate professor, 工学部共通講座, 助教授 (50239505)
LAMARRE Christine The University of Tokyo, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Associate professor, 大学院・総合文化研究科, 助教授 (30240394)
KIMURA Hideki The University of Tokyo, Graduate School of Humanities and Sociology, Professor, 大学院・人文社会系研究科, 教授 (20153207)
YANG Kairong The University of Tokyo, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Associate professor, 大学院・総合文化研究科, 助教授 (00248543)
WASHIO Ryuichi The University of Tsukuba, Institute of Modern Languages and Cultures, Professor, 現代語現代文化学系, 教授 (90167099)
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| Project Period (FY) |
1999 – 2001
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| Keywords | Grammaticalization / Categorization / East-Asian Languages / Chinese / Korean / Mongolian / Vietnamese / Contrastive Studies |
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| Research Abstract |
The aim of our research was, through the observation of the correlations between grammatical forms, meaning and categories, to shed light upon general tendencies and particular variations in grammaticalization and categorization phenomena that occur in East Asian languages. Our team consisted of seven researchers : the six mentioned above, and INOUE Masaru, Chief Researcher at the National Institute for the Japanese Language. We met twice a year, and the results of this association were then presented at conferences or academic journals in Japan or abroad. HOSHI Izumi, a specialist of Tibetan linguistics at Tokyo University of Foreign Languages, was associated to these meetings. We give below a short (and not exhaustive) summary of our results.
The first subject of our research was "the structuring and categorization of voice", treated by Kimura about Chinese causative and 'disposal' constructions, by Inoue about various types of causatives in Chinese and their behavior when negated, by
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Washio about resultative constructions in Middle Mongolian, and by Ogoshi about two competing forms of compound verbs in 〜hata. These studies brought to light some major similarities, but also the particular behavior of each language concerning the categorization of voice.
The second theme addresses 'the linguistic categorization of subjectivity'. A contrastive study on Japanese mo and Chinese ye by Yang Kairong, and a description of the construction 'V+du?c + quantifier' in Vietnamese by Murakami (Le Van Cu) gave new insights on the semantics of scope and quantification in these languages. Lamarre's study, which described how sentence-final particle TSANG grammaticalized from a connective in Guangdong Hakka, and Inoue's, which compared Chinese shi ma? and Japanese so desu ka/so ka/so nan desu ka, show that languages typologically distant such as Chinese and Japanese may have very similar strategies concerning the grammaticalization of sentence-final particles and their pragmatic functions. Less
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