2012 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

Study of the transformation process of dialect expressions in the Amami Islands dialect

Research Project

Project/Area Number	22520470
Research Category	Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
Allocation Type	Single-year Grants
Section	一般
Research Field	Japanese linguistics
Research Institution	Hiroshima University
Principal Investigator	MACHI Hiromitsu 広島大学, 大学院・教育学研究科, 教授 (10116668)
Project Period (FY)	2010 – 2012
Keywords	方言 / 奄美方言 / 敬語法 / 待遇法 / 社会構造 / 文末詞
Research Abstract	I investigated the dialect honorific expressions of the Amami Islands dialect that faced a crisis of the extinction, and there was what preservation utilized by the unified record method for the purpose of this study. I was able to investigate it in Amami Islands ten spots. I was able to grasp the other place of honorific expressions of Amami Islands. I was able to point out the simplification of northern dialect honorific expressions in Amami Ooshima Hontou, former condition characteristics in the southern part.It was possible for that it was like Tokunoshima dialect having the characteristic of the north and south in the Amami dialect, Okinawa dialect of Yoron, Okinoerabu to be clear.

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