2016 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
The Okinawan Dialects Analyzed from the Viewpoint of Contentive Typology
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25370485
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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 | Oita University |
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Principal Investigator |
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| Research Collaborator |
MATUMOTO HIROTAKE 復旦大学, 客員教授 (90082932)
KANEKO MITUSIGE 大分大学, 名誉教授 (60107836)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2013-04-01 – 2017-03-31
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| Keywords | クリモフ / 内容類型学 / 活格現象 / 主語述語補語 / 危機言語 / 沖縄諸方言 |
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| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
Based on our reexaminational results of the Okinawan dialects, we went over them one more time from the viewpoint of G. A. Klimov’s contentive typology. As a result, we found out again that there does exist the nominative-case Nφ form in the dialects of the Okinawan Islands, especially in that of the Kunigami area. In the area, they use the nominative-case Nφ form when describing a natural phenomenon or existence in their dialect. This shows a strong possibility that the people in those Islands do use or have used the active type dialect. Our research also shows that there are two types in their first-person plural pronoun: one is inclusive and the other exclusive and that there is a binary opposition in their usage of a demonstrative. Our survey locations were the hamlets and/or villages of the main island of Okinawa, Kumejima Island and Kudakajima Island.
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| Free Research Field |
人文学
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