2017 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
Construction of a Khitan Materials Database and Linguistic Description of the Khitan Language
| Project/Area Number |
15K16738
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)
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| Allocation Type | Multi-year Fund |
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| Research Field |
Linguistics
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| Research Institution | Kyoto University |
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Principal Investigator |
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| Project Period (FY) |
2015-04-01 – 2018-03-31
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| Keywords | 契丹語 / 契丹文字 / 歴史言語学 / 言語再建 / モンゴル諸語 |
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| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
The Khitan language is generally recognized as an undeciphered language whose sources are written in the Khitan scripts or phonetically annotated in Chinese characters in Chinese documents. Several problems in Khitan grammar, including phonotactics, plural suffixes, direction terms, and numerals, have been solved during this three-year project by conducting linguistic analyses of the data collected from Khitan script materials. These results have been published as academic papers.
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| Free Research Field |
言語学
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