2011 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

Study on Some Grammatical Forms in the Japanese Dialects Derived from their Semantic Contiguity Expressions

Research Project

Project/Area Number	21520494
Research Category	Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
Allocation Type	Single-year Grants
Section	一般
Research Field	Japanese linguistics
Research Institution	National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics
Principal Investigator	MITSUI Harumi 大学共同利用機関法人人間文化研究機構国立国語研究所, 理論・構造研究系, 助教 (50219672)
Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha)	INOUE Fumiko 大学共同利用機関法人人間文化研究機構国立国語研究所, 時空間変異研究系, 准教授 (90263186) HIDAKA Mizuho 関西大学, 文学部, 教授 (80292358)
Project Period (FY)	2009 – 2011
Keywords	方言 / 言語変化
Research Abstract	Our subjects of the research are as follows. the usage of conditional morpheme "gii" and its geo-linguistical distribution in the dialects of Northwestern Kyushu. the usage of the interjectory particles derived from the personal pronouns of the second person and their geo-linguistical distribution in the dialects of Western part of Japan. the usages of some grammaticalized forms derived from the citation form "toyuu" and their process of changes in the Tohoku dialects. By this research a part of the process in which the variations of the grammatical systems was produced became clear.