Construction of integrated text database of Nuuchahnulth, Ahousaht dialect

2017 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 15K02509
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Linguistics
• Research Institution: Tokyo University of Foreign Studies
• Principal Investigator: Nakayama Kumiko 東京外国語大学, アジア・アフリカ言語文化研究所, 研究員 (40401426)
• Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha): 中山 俊秀 東京外国語大学, アジア・アフリカ言語文化研究所, 教授 (70334448)
• Project Period (FY): 2015-04-01 – 2018-03-31
• Keywords: 危機少数言語 / 記述言語学 / 北米先住民語

Outline of Final Research Achievements

In this study, fieldwork has been conducted on Ahousaht, an endangered and understudied Nuu-chah-nulth language, in the province of British Columbia,　Canada,　for　the　total　period　of　three　months.　Based　on　the　obtained　naturally-occuring discourse data (textual data) whose contents include various types of ethnographical and historical information, grammatical patterns of the language have been analyzed. The analized textual data have been linked with audio and glossary data base and integrated into the computational infrastructure for use in variety of research and social activities.

Free Research Field

言語学