2009 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
Alignment and word order in the history of Japanese
| Project/Area Number |
19520327
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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 |
Linguistics
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| Research Institution | University of Tsukuba |
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Principal Investigator |
YANAGIDA Yuko University of Tsukuba, 大学院・人文社会科学研究科, 教授 (20243818)
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| Research Collaborator |
WHITMAN John コーネル大学, 言語学科, 教授
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| Project Period (FY) |
2007 – 2009
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| Keywords | 活格 / 能格 / 対格 / 代名詞 / 語順 / 名詞化 |
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| Research Abstract |
Based on an extensive survey of Old Japanese (OJ) corpus, this study has examined the distribution of case particles and personal pronouns and the order of arguments in transitive clauses. From a typological perspective, OJ has the morphological and syntactic characteristics of active languages. I have proposed a formal analysis of the historical change from active alignment to accusative alignment. This study has also examined the pronominal system in OJ through early Modern Japanese, providing a formal analysis of changes in the pronominal system during the course of the history of Japanese. I argue that this shift involves what is known as degrammaticalization.
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Research Products
(14 results)
