A Diachronic Study of the Japanese Dictionaries with focus on the Iroha Jiruisho

2017 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 16K16849
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Research Field: Japanese linguistics
• Research Institution: National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics
• Principal Investigator: FUJIMOTO Akari 大学共同利用機関法人人間文化研究機構国立国語研究所, 言語変化研究領域, 特任助教 (20733017)
• Research Collaborator: TANAKA Sota
• Project Period (FY): 2016-04-01 – 2018-03-31
• Keywords: 色葉字類抄 / 古辞書 / 国語辞書

Outline of Final Research Achievements

This study examines Japanese dictionaries with a particular focus on Iroha Jiruisho from the Heian period. The contents of the research are as follows:
1. Analysis of the features of the vocabulary recorded in Iroha Jiruisho. 2. Bibliographic investigation of various editions of Iroha Jiruisho (いろは字類抄). 3. Comparison between the vocabularies of various dictionaries. 4. Construction of databases of the contents of Iroha Jiruisho, etc.　During the research period, all of the above tasks were completed on schedule.

Free Research Field

日本語学