2012 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
Descriptive Study on Shinekhen Buryat, one of the endangered Mongoliclanguages.
| Project/Area Number |
22720163
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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 | Sapporo Gakuin University |
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Principal Investigator |
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| Project Period (FY) |
2010 – 2012
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| Keywords | ブリヤート語 / モンゴル諸語 / 記述言語学 / 危機言語 / モンゴル語 |
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| Research Abstract |
This research project aims to describe the phonology and grammar of Shinekhen Buryat (a Mongolic languages spoken by Buryat immigrants from Russia in northern China), as well as to make a language documentation of it. Through this three-year project, language materials and a grammatical sketch of Shinekhen Buryat were published and three points were clarified as follows:
(1) Personal possessive particles function mainly as possessive markers in Shinekhen Buryat (on the other hand, personal possessive particles in Modern Mongolian lose theirfunction as possessive markers), and these particles may function as the markers of insubordination.
(2) Some of the aforementioned participles should be classified as nominals (deverbal nominals), since they have more noun-like and less verb-like features than other “typical” participles.
(3) Cross-linguistically, participles are defined as the inflectional transposition from verb sto adjectives. This definition seems applicable to Shinekhen Buryat participles ; however, the syntactic features of participles are different from those of adjectives. When a participle is used as the predicate of an adverbial clause, it always appears with some enclitical particles, which do not appear with adjectives that modify verbs.
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