2005 Fiscal Year Final Research Report Summary
A Research on the Shiramine Dialect in Ishikawa Prefecture and the Construction of its Database
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16520275
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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 |
Japanese linguistics
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| Research Institution | Kanazawa University |
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Principal Investigator |
NITTA Tetsuo Kanazawa University, Faculty of Letters, Professor, 文学部, 教授 (90172725)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2004 – 2005
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| Keywords | Shiramine dialect / long vowels in adjectives / folktales in Shiramine / basic vocabulary / accent |
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| Research Abstract |
This research mainly focuses on the collection and description of the synchronic data of the Shiramine dialect in Ishikawa. The Shiramine dialect is regarded as an important dialect in a history of Japanese language. I researched the characteristics of the Shiramine dialect, considering its relation to old Standard Japanese. The details are as follows :
1. The Shiramine dialect has adjective stems with a long vowel, such as taakya (takai) and saabi (samui). This linguistic phenomenon has also been observed in some other places, e.g.Niigata, Ohita, Wakayama Prefectures and so on. I actually surveyed and confirmed the existence of the adjective stems with long vowel in all of these places.
I drew the following conclusion through the survey :
(1) The long vowels are realized more in order of free bases>bound bases>others.
(2) The long vowels are historically older than the short vowels.
(3) Moraic nasals and geminate consonants are realized in place of a long vowels in some dialects, but this phenomenon seems to arise from the long vowel originally.
2. I recorded and documented the old folktales spoken in the Shiramine dialect. I also corrected and noted the text of the discourse data of the Shiramine dialect in NHK Zenkoku Hogen Shiryo.
3. I surveyed the basic vocabulary of the Shiramine dialect and provided a detailed description of the forms, meanings and usages of the basic words.
4. I compiled the data of accents of many verbs and adjectives in the Shiramine dialect.
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