2013 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

A Research on the Process of Contact, Diffusion, and Reception in the Phonological Phenomenon of Kyushu Dialects

Research Project

Project/Area Number	23520554
Research Category	Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
Allocation Type	Multi-year Fund
Section	一般
Research Field	Japanese linguistics
Research Institution	Yamaguchi University
Principal Investigator	ARIMOTO Mitsuhiko 山口大学, 教育学部, 教授 (90232074)
Project Period (FY)	2011 – 2013
Keywords	九州方言 / 音韻現象 / テ形 / 共生タイプ / 方言形成
Research Abstract	As a result of this research, I could collect linguistic data of the verb te-form, ta-form, and negative form by the fieldwork of Kyushu dialects, i.e. Nagasaki, Kumamoto, Kagoshima, Miyazaki, and Oita dialects. In this research, I suggest a typology of the phonetic distribution on /te/ and /de/. I discovered new types of dialects, e.g. the symbiosis that two kinds of the dialect type coexist. By virtue of this discovery, I have got the key to a solution on the theoretical problems, i.e. how the dialect is formed.