2010 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
Development of Japanese Dialects from a viewpoint of the influential movement of central Dialect and its localization
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19520404
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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 |
Japanese linguistics
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| Research Institution | Ritsumeikan University |
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Principal Investigator |
HIKOSAKA Yoshinobu Ritsumeikan University, 文学部, 教授 (00111237)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2007 – 2010
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| Keywords | 日本語形成史 / 伝播類型 / 『方言文法全国地図』 / 国語史 / 方言史 |
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| Research Abstract |
This paper investigates the developmental process of Japanese language included in dialects by analyzing the pattern of its propagation. The paper focuses on conditional expressions, expressions of will and conjecture, and polite expressions found in Grammar Atlas of Japanese Dialects (GAJ) and investigates them from the perspectives of geo-linguistics, Japanese historical linguistics and dialectology. As a result, five patterns were found. They share a concentric pattern of language distribution originated from Kink, the ancient central area of Japan, as the base. Additional patterns include contrasting patterns in Eastern Japan and Western Japan, and two new concentric patterns originated from Edo and Tokyo, the city area in the eastern region, and Keihan, the city areas in the western region.
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Research Products
(10 results)
