2013 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
A Comparative Study of the Genitive Postposition / Particle in Hindi and Japanese
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23652084
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Exploratory Research
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| Allocation Type | Multi-year Fund |
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| Research Field |
Linguistics
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| Research Institution | Osaka University |
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Principal Investigator |
NISHIOKA MIKI 大阪大学, 言語文化研究科(研究院), 講師 (30452478)
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| Research Collaborator |
HOOK Peter E. University of Michigan, University of Virginia, Professor Emeritus, visiting researcher
NARSIMHAN Ranjana University of Delhi, Faculty of Social Sciences, Assistant Professor of Japanese Language and Literature Department of East Asian Studies
KUMAR Rajesh Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Assistant Professor of Department of Humanities and Social Sciences
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| Project Period (FY) |
2011 – 2013
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| Keywords | 国際研究者交流 / 国際情報交換 / ヒンディー語 / 属格後置詞 / 格助詞 / 準体助詞 / 日本語 / 対照研究 |
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| Research Abstract |
This study is an exploration of similarities and differences found in genitive constructions in Japanese and Hindi. Japanese has the morpheme 'no' as a genitive case marker. Hindi also has an equivalent a genitive postposition, 'kaa' functionally equivalent to Japanese 'no'. In addition, Hindi has another 'connector'- the suffix 'vaalaa'.
The main findings of this study so far are as follows: (1) both Hindi 'kaa' and Japanese 'no' are used for possessive, nominative, accusative and locative cases, (2) in the functions of pronominal and complementizer either 'kaa' or 'vaalaa' can be used as rough equivalents of Japanese 'no'. In particular, 'kaa' and 'vaalaa' possibly share different parts of the pronominal function.
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