A theoretical and scientific research on the consecutive occurrences of the unmarked tense morpheme and the verbal base forms

2011 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 21520410
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Single-year Grants
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Linguistics
• Research Institution: Saga University
• Principal Investigator: KOGA Hiroki 佐賀大学, 留学生センター, 淳教授 (80330215)
• Co-Investigator(Renkei-kenkyūsha): ONO Koji 佐賀大学, 文化教育学部, 教授 (80177261) ; DOZONO Hiroshi 佐賀大学, 工学系・研究科, 准教授 (00217613)
• Project Period (FY): 2009 – 2011
• Keywords: 非過去形 / 時制の無標形態 / 恒等関数 / 動詞の基底形 / 時制 / 韻律最小値 / 変格活用

Research Abstract

The current research made it clear that the phenomena of the so-called' non-past' verbal forms of Yanagawa-Japanese dialect(e. g.,/ nuru/, but not^*</ nu/> or^*</ neru/>, is used to mean' sleep-Nonpast',/ taburu/, but not^*</ tabu/> or^*</ taberu/>, is used to mean' eat-Nonpast',) are explained by three assumptions as follows. Assumption 1 : The so-called‘non-past' morpheme is analyzed as the tense expletive, and so, is allowed to repeat for one verbal stem. Assuming that some verbal lexemes can be associated with two stems, the tense expletive/(r) u/ selects the shorter verbal stem if there are two stems for a verbal lexeme. The tense expletive also selects the verbal form with its tense feature expletive. Assumption 2 : The number of the syllables for a verbal form is two or more. Assumption 3 : The numbers of the tense morphemes for a verbal stem in one verbal form within each morphological group are the same. In addition, the current research has provided data. We described the' non-past' forms of 266 verbs which correspond to standard ones frequently used in daily conversations, by the international phonetic symbols. The utterances of these by a native speaker of the dialect were recorded. The doubling of the unmarked tense morpheme is found in the verbal forms whose basic verb stem ends with the vowel/ e/.

Research Products

• [Journal Article] Consecutive occurrences of the tense expletive : in case of a' shorter' event-describing morpheme plus/ s/ (2009)
  • Author(s): 古賀弘毅
  • Journal Title: 佐賀大学留学生センター紀要 Volume: 第9号 Pages: 1-14
• [Presentation] Affixes' selections of verbal stems/ forms (2011)
  • Author(s): KOGA, Hiroki
  • Organizer: 日本言語学会第143回大会
  • Place of Presentation: 大阪大学豊中キャンパス
  • Year and Date: 2011-11-26
• [Presentation] Surface constraints on multiple occurrences of the default morpheme of tense (2010)
  • Author(s): KOGA, Hiroki
  • Organizer: Workshop on Morphology and Formal Grammar
  • Place of Presentation: Maison dela recherche, L' Universite Paris-Sorbonne, Paris, France
  • Year and Date: 2010-07-08
• [Presentation] Surface constraints on multiple default morphemes of tense, 9th International Conference on Tense (2009)
  • Author(s): KOGA, Hiroki
  • Organizer: Aspect and Modality(CHRONOS 9)
  • Place of Presentation: Universite Paris-Didero, Paris, France
  • Year and Date: 2009-09-03
• [Presentation] Surface constraints on multiple default morphemes of tense (2009)
  • Author(s): KOGA, Hiroki
  • Organizer: Workshop on Morphology and Lexicon Forum
  • Place of Presentation: 東北大学
  • Year and Date: 2009-07-04
• [Book] 佐賀西部方言を「科学」しよう!:言語理論入門 (2011)
  • Author(s): 古賀弘毅
  • Total Pages: 114
  • Publisher: 三恵社
• [Remarks] ホームページ等先述した雑誌論文の原稿および学会発表で読まれた原稿をこのホームページの「学術業績」で参照可能。
  • URL: http://theoreticallinglab.isc.saga-u.ac.jp/html.html
• [Remarks] 同ホームページの「学術業績」のKoga, Hiroki and Koji Ono.The sound data of the` non-past' forms of two hundred sixty-six(266) verbs of Saga western dialect, March 2011で佐賀西部方言の動詞の非過去形を含む文を聞ける。(この原稿は, Koga, Hiroki and Koji Ono.The` non-past' forms of two hundred sixty-six(