A Study of Digital Archive Environment and Language Documentation for Minority Languages in North-East Eurasia

2014 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 23401025
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B)
• Allocation Type: Single-year Grants
• Section: 海外学術
• Research Field: Linguistics
• Research Institution: National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics (2014); Tokyo University of Foreign Studies (2011-2013)
• Principal Investigator: NAGASAKI Iku 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, 言語対照研究系, プロジェクトPDフェロー (70401445)
• Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha): ONO Chikako 千葉大学, 人文社会科学研究科, 特任研究員 (50466728) ; NAGAYAMA Yukari 北海道大学, 文学研究科, 助教 (20419211) ; OHYA Kazushi 鶴見大学, 文学部, 教授 (80386911)
• Co-Investigator(Renkei-kenkyūsha): LI Linjing 成蹊大学, 法学部, 准教授 (40567418)
• Project Period (FY): 2011-04-01 – 2015-03-31
• Keywords: 言語ドキュメンテーション / 言語学 / 記述言語学 / 少数民族言語 / 北東ユーラシア / シベリア・極東 / ロシア

Outline of Final Research Achievements

This research project aimed at promoting language documentation on Kolyma Yukaghir, Selkup, Itelmen and Alutor, severely endangered languages of Northeast Eurasia. During this four-year research period, we conducted fieldwork on Selkup, Itelmen and Alutor on the purpose of gathering primary data. Linguistic annotations and translation have been added to the transcribed data of all four languages. As the outcome of the project, we published texts of Kolyma Yukaghir and Alutor with Russian translations, and had investigated some grammatical topics of the languages, such as possessive constructions, participles/nominalizations, and negation. Studies of markup rules for minority language data were also investigated.

Free Research Field

言語学