2014 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
Basic research for grammatical description of Amami-Ryukyuan
| Project/Area Number |
24720180
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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 | Hiroshima University of Economics (2013-2014)
Hiroshima University (2012) |
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Principal Investigator |
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| Project Period (FY) |
2012-04-01 – 2015-03-31
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| Keywords | 琉球諸語 / 記述言語学 |
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| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
In this research, I described the grammatical system of the Ura dialect in Amami-Oshima from a typological point of view. There had been only a few reports on the dialect, fewer than those on the other varieties that belong to Ryukyuan languages. The current research had two aims: (1) to provide a descriptive grammar of the dialect (for linguists) and (2) to make a textbook for non-academic learners of the dialect. As for as the first aim (1), I recorded and transcribed natural discourse, made a wordlist, provided a phonemic inventory and described morphological characteristics of the noun, the verb and the adjective of the dialect by analyzing the data obtained from field research. In order to achieve the second aim (2), I am currently working on adding transcription in hiragana and translation in Japanese to the wordlist and the discourse data.
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| Free Research Field |
言語学
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