2011 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
The diachronic study of tense and aspect in Mongolian
| Project/Area Number |
21720145
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Research Field |
Linguistics
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| Research Institution | Nagasaki University of Foreign Studies |
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Principal Investigator |
MATSUOKA Yuta 長崎外国語大学, 外国語学部, 講師 (40526688)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2009 – 2011
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| Keywords | モンゴル語 / テンス / アスペクト / 言語接触 / 文法化 |
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| Research Abstract |
The aim of this work is to investigate a diachronic change of tense and aspect in Mongolian. To realize this aim, I not only make an analysis of documents written in past times, but also describe the modern Mongolian dialects, Khalkha Khorchin Chakhar and Kharachin. As a result, I could confirm some differences in the aspectual form between the dialects above. I concluded that these differences reflect a process of grammaticalization from the verb to the auxiliary verb as the aspect marker.
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