2023 Fiscal Year Annual Research Report
Comparative Semantics of Yaeyaman Verbal Morphology
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18K12374
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| Research Institution | University of the Ryukyus |
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Principal Investigator |
クリストファー デイビス 琉球大学, 国際地域創造学部, 准教授 (80647339)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2018-04-01 – 2024-03-31
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| Keywords | Yaeyaman / verbs / honorifics / Korean / Japanese |
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| Outline of Annual Research Achievements |
In the course of this research, I conducted primary fieldwork aimed at elucidating the verbal structure of Yaeyaman. I conducted fieldwork across a number of dialects of Yaeyaman, focusing primarily on the Hatoma and Kohama dialects, but including investigation of other dialects as well as Japanese and Korean. The research incorporated both targeted elicitation and the collection of naturalistic data, with the aim of creating an archive of the Yaeyaman language that will ultimately be made available to the community and to the public.
In the course of the research, attention was focused in particular on the verbal honorific system, and the differences in how this system was used across different dialects of Yaeyaman, as well as in Japanese and Korean.
This work in turn led to an international collaboration with Sunwoo Jeong at Seoul National University, with whom I conducted experimental investigations into the verbal honorific system of Korean, building on the discoveries and theories stemming from the Yaeyaman fieldwork that was the original aim of this funded research. We presented this research at the international conference CHAMP2. This has resulted in a cross-linguistic theoretical model of how verbal honorifics work in this and other languages, including honorification expressed through agreement morphology in Hindi, leading to publication of work with Rajesh Bhatt of the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
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