2012 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
A Historical Approach to Some Features in Latin Nominal Morphology
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23820025
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Research Activity Start-up
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Research Field |
Linguistics
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| Research Institution | Kyoto University |
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Principal Investigator |
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| Project Period (FY) |
2011 – 2012
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| Keywords | 延長階梯 / 異分析 / 民間語源 |
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| Research Abstract |
Though Latin is a language that belongs to the Indo-European (IE)family, its nominal morphology is remarkably simplified from the state reconstructed in Proto-Indo-European. However, by means of the comparison with the other IE languages, I succeeded in identifying some relics of an old morphological process, on the one hand, and on the other hand, clarifying the fact that a similar process arisen in Latin came to enjoy some productivity. Further, for a noun that stands for a Roman deity, I proposed a new historical scenario particularly developed within Latin, whereas it has often been treated from the IE standpoint.
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