2007 Fiscal Year Final Research Report Summary
Research on the FUNING subgroup of the MINDONG dialect, Chinese
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17401014
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B)
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Section | 海外学術 |
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| Research Field |
Linguistics
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| Research Institution | Ehime University |
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Principal Investigator |
AKITANI Hiroyuki Ehime University, Faculty of law and letters, Associate Professor (10263964)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2005 – 2007
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| Keywords | Chinese / FUNING subgroup / MINDONG dialect / dialect / ZHOUNING dialect / NINGDE dialect / FUAN dialect |
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| Research Abstract |
1. I did the field researches on the XIANCUN (ZHOUNING prefecture) dialect, HUBEI (NINFDE prefecture) dialect and MUYANG (FU 'AN prefecture) dialect of FUNING subgroup of the MIN dialect, Chinese. My investigation items include the 3000 character readings, vocabulary of 600 wards and grammatical investigation of 100 example sentences and the other.
2. The mast important finding of this study is the final consonants of the XIANCUN and HUBEI dialects. They preserve 7 final consonants, that is -p, -t, -k, -? /-m, -n, -n, for example "三"θam^1 ≠ "山"θan^1 ≠"生"θaη^1 (XIANCUN dialect). Most of the MIN dialects have been lost these contrasts, especially after low vowels, fir example "三"sa^1≠"山sua^1≠ "生"si^1 (XIAMEN dialect). Therefore we have to depend on these two dialects when we reconstruct PROTO-MIN final stops. This is the most important feature of the XIANCUN and HUBEI dialects.
3. Unfortunately, MUYANG dialect has been lost these contrast of final stops and only preserves. But form the morphophonemic point of view, we can still observe the traces of ^*-p, ^*-t/^*-m, ^*-n.
4. I intend to publish the monograph on this subgroup in China mainland or Taiwan next year.
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