2014 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
Research for writing a descriptive grammar of Kapampangan: Exploration into predicate morphology and complement clauses
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24520462
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
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| Allocation Type | Multi-year Fund |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Research Field |
Linguistics
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| Research Institution | Aichi University of Education |
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Principal Investigator |
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| Project Period (FY) |
2012-04-01 – 2015-03-31
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| Keywords | カパンパンガン語 / フィリピン諸語 / 述語形態論 / 補文構造 / 言語類型論 / 文法記述 |
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| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
This study investigated (1) the morphological structure of basic verbs and adjectives of Kapampangan, which is a member of the Malayo-Polynesian branch of the Austronesian language family, spoken mainly in Pampanga province, the Philippines. It revealed various inflectional and derivational forms of roughly 350 verbs and adjectives. It pointed out that frequencies with which particular forms are used vary considerably.
This study also explored (2) the structure of complementation. In this study, both complement clauses (e.g. that-clause in "I think that he is honest.") and noun-modifying clauses (e.g. that-clause in "the news that the president resigned") were surveyed. It collected examples of roughly 110 complement-taking predicates and 35 complement-taking head nouns. Special attention was paid to how complements are marked (e.g. linkers, complementizers, or determiners), and which complement-taking predicate makes use of which complementation marker(s).
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| Free Research Field |
言語学
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