2012 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
A Comparative Study of Yari-Morai and Demonstrative Constructions in Ryukyuan and Pre-Modern Japanese
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22520416
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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 | Oita University |
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Principal Investigator |
OGINO Chisako 大分大学, 教育福祉科学部, 講師 (40331897)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2010 – 2012
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| Keywords | 授受動詞 / 敬語 / 視点 / 人称制約 / 琉球 / 中世語 / タボールン / 給はる |
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| Research Abstract |
This study describes Ryukyuan verbal constructions indicating giving and receiving (yari-morai constructions) , and shows that honorific yari-morai verbs in Yaeyama Ryukyuan have a system closely similar to that of Pre-modern Japanese. The honorific yari-morai construction in the Miyara dialect of Yaeyama Ryukyuan, expressed with tabooruN, does not have person restrictions on the NP expressing the giver or receiver, unlike in Modern Common Japanese. These NPs do not need to be marked with nominative case. The construction indicates the movement of the object from the higher-status person (giver) to the lower-status person (receiver). The giver takes the ablative case, and the contrast in the meanings expressed by kudasaru, oataeninaru and itadaku in Common Japanese is lost. This grammar is similar to construction in Pre-modern Japanese. Demonstrative expressions in the Miyara dialect were also investigated, and shown to have no relation to grammatical person. It is shown that deictics are generally expressed with the u series demonstratives.
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