2017 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
A morphosyntactic study of (split) ergativity in Kaqchikel and Mayan languages
| Project/Area Number |
15K16752
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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 | Kwansei Gakuin 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 | 分裂能格性 / 名詞化 / マヤ諸語（カクチケル語、イシル語） / 喜界語 / 統語論 / 形態論 / 比較統語論 |
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| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
This research project has investigated several Mayan languages such as Kaqchikel, from the perspective of comparative syntax. Among the various topics investigated in this project, I have focused primarily on the ergative properties of these languages and particularly addressed the correlation between split ergativity and nominalization. I have demonstrated that the presence or absence of an external argument within a nominalized clause correlates with the type of an alignment between agreement morphemes and grammatical relations. Based on this finding among others, the project has proposed a new morphosyntactic analysis of split ergativity in Kaqchikel and other Mayan languages, thereby providing a better understanding of the nature of ergativity in human language.
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| Free Research Field |
言語学
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