Multifaceted Investigation with a Focus on Yamada Yoshio in the Establishment Period of the Modern Japanese Linguistics

2014 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 24520491
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Japanese linguistics
• Research Institution: Tohoku University
• Principal Investigator: SAITO MICHIAKI 東北大学, 文学研究科, 教授 (20178510)
• Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha): KOBAYASHI Takashi 東北大学, 大学院文学研究科, 教授 (00161993) ; OOKI Kazuo 東北大学, 大学院文学研究科, 准教授 (00250647) ; KODA Naomi 東北大学, 大学院文学研究科, 准教授 (40303763)
• Project Period (FY): 2012-04-01 – 2015-03-31
• Keywords: 近代日本語学史 / 山田孝雄 / 安藤正次 / 岡沢鉦治 / 菊沢季生 / 周辺

Outline of Final Research Achievements

Yamada Yoshio is an immensely figure in the establishment period of the modern Japanese Linguistics. But before Yamada there were many researchers who affected his studies, and after Yamada there were many researchers who inherited his studies. Among them we took up three persons, i.e., Ando Masatsugu, Kikuzawa Sueo, Okazawa Shoji and studied their relation to Yamada. They were active in Yamada's "peripheral" in terms of physical geography or were active in "peripheral" in terms of Japanese Linguistic circle of those days.
Specifically, we went to Taiwan to investigate Ando Masatsugu's achievement because in prewar Taiwan he studied ancient Japanese grammar in relation to Yamada Grammar. Further we investigated the relation between Yamada Grammar and the lexicological important concept "Isou"(phase) Kikuzawa proposed, or between Yamada Grammar and Okazawa's linguistic approaches to the Japanese grammar.

Free Research Field

日本語語彙・文法に関する構造・歴史