2003 Fiscal Year Final Research Report Summary
Research on process of formation and acceptance of neologism in Swiss Romansh
| Project/Area Number |
14510600
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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 |
その他の外国語・外国文学
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| Research Institution | TOKYO UNIVERSITY OF FOREIGN STUDIES |
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Principal Investigator |
TOMIMORI Nobuo Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, Faculty of Foreign Languages, Professor, 外国語学部, 教授 (50122643)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2002 – 2003
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| Keywords | Swiss Romansh / romance type word formation / linguistic consciousness / language contacts / germanic type word formation / process of acceptance / interference phenomena / creation of neologisms |
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| Research Abstract |
This research concerns a lexical study of neologisms in modern Swiss Romansh with special regards to language contact phenomena between this language and German and/or Italian.
Firstly, in 2002, we could successfully prepare a linguistic corpus from modem literature and administrative documents as well as from web-site texts, carefully selectioned for this purpose.
Secondly, in 2003, we achieved a close observation of creation process of new words and expressions by executing a special questionnaire on the informants' linguistic consciousness.
We could also apply this newly built corpus to a lexical data base by use of a customized kwic analyser in order to investigate a structural interference between romance type word formations and germanic type ones.
The results of this analysis will be soon printed with particular reference to a socio-cultural background of Romansh language crisis in modern times.
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