2014 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
Linguistic research on the areal characteristics of the languages spoken in the related-multiethnic society in western Sichuan, China
| Project/Area Number |
23720203
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)
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| Allocation Type | Multi-year Fund |
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| Research Field |
Linguistics
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| Research Institution | Reitaku University (2013-2014)
Nagoya Institute of Technology (2011-2012) |
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Principal Investigator |
SHIRAI Satoko 麗澤大学, 言語研究センター, 客員研究員 (70372555)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2011-04-28 – 2015-03-31
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| Keywords | 言語学 / 危機・少数言語 / 研究者交流（中国） / フィールドワーク / 言語地理学 / 川西民族走廊 / チベット＝ビルマ語派 / チァン語支 |
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| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
South-western China is a multiethnic area. We can find a variety of languages and cultures especially in the western Sichuan area, where at least 12 languages with no writing tradition, small number of speakers and few preceding studies are spoken.
I made fieldwork there in order to bring out the details of these languages. Especially I conducted a detailed research on the nDrapa language and the rGyalrong language.
Moreover, I compared the information collected in my fieldwork with documents of neighboring languages to analyze the distribution of linguistic characteristics. In the result, I made clear the areal distribution and the process of the formation of characteristic phenomena, such as the point-of-view system and deverbalization through reduplication.
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| Free Research Field |
言語学
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