2010 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
THE EDIT OF THE DICTIONARY OF THE KHITAI LANGUAGE
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20520403
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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 | Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University |
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Principal Investigator |
YOSHIMOTO Chieko Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University, アジア太平洋学部, 教授 (70331105)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2008 – 2010
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| Keywords | 契丹語 / 契丹大小字 / 契丹文墓誌 / 契丹文離散資料 / 表意文字 / 表音文字 |
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| Research Abstract |
The edit of the dictionary of the Khitai language is the firstly attempted in the history of study on the Khitai language and scripts. Based on concrete and rich fruit of three years' research project, the head investigator identifies all the scripts seen on newly excavated epitaphs and dispersed materials and makes electronic texts of them, assumes meanings of words that never have been deciphered, on the other hand, reconstructs phonetic values of lots of phonographies and ideographies, enriches database of words of collected Khitai materials that have been deciphered based on studies and analyses under the newest linguistic approaches. Based on the construction of this database, the full-scale linguistic study of Khitai scripts has reached a level of completion, and offers rich basement of studies on concerning fields.
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Research Products
(22 results)
