2014 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
An Empirical Research on the System of the Conditional Expressions in Kyushu Dialects of Japanese
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24520482
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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 | Osaka Shoin Women's University |
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Principal Investigator |
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| Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) |
江口 正 福岡大学, 人文学部, 教授 (20264707)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2012-04-01 – 2015-03-31
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| Keywords | 条件表現 / ギー / 佐賀方言 / 九州方言 / 限定 / 認識的条件文 / 形式名詞 / アスペクト |
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| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
We studied the distribution of the conditional forms peculiar to some Kyushu dialects, ‘gi' and its allomorphs, ‘gitto', ‘ginta' etc. (hereafter ‘Gi’) compared with that of the same (or similar) conditional forms as standard Japanese. Gi is thought to originate from ‘giri' (e.g. ‘limitation’). We show that in Saga, Gi is the most popular conditional form across all generations, covering not only predictive, counterfactual and generic usages but also some epistemic usages, which are expressed by ‘nara’, or its allomorphs (hereafter ‘Nara’) in standard Japanese and in most dialects. Gi in Kamikoshiki, Izumi, Kamiamakusa and Sasebo, however, is mostly used by middle-aged and elderly groups, and even for them, Gi is not preferentially used. Nara is predominant in the aforementioned and neighboring areas. Nara has a wider coverage than Gi. We also show that the form-meaning limitation, ‘syaga', conveys similar implications as Gi after conditional clauses, mainly in Kumamoto.
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| Free Research Field |
言語学 日本語学
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