A descriptive study of quatative particles in Earlier Japanese

2017 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 16H07401
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Research Activity Start-up
• Allocation Type: Single-year Grants
• Research Field: Japanese linguistics
• Research Institution: Yonago National College of Technology
• Principal Investigator: Tsujimoto Osuke (辻本桜介) 米子工業高等専門学校, その他部局等, 助教 (90780990)
• Project Period (FY): 2016-08-26 – 2018-03-31
• Keywords: 「と」 / 「とて」 / 「など」 / 引用助詞 / 「となし（無し）」 / 「となり」 / 古代語 / 中古語

Outline of Final Research Achievements

In this research, I described the functions of three quatative particles, to, tote, and nado in Earlier Japanese. First, I analyzed the syntactical construction of to-nashi and to-nari, the forms which are not used in Modern Japanese. Meanwhile, I also described the semantic construction of to-kiku, to-irau and to-kotau. In addition, I found that tote has several functions which to-iite and to-omoite don’t have, and that nado has a particular semantic function which affects the choice of the predicate verb.

Free Research Field

日本語学