A Comparison of Existential and Possessive Expressions in Taiwan Aboriginal Languages and Southeastern and East Asia Languages

2015 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 25370503
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Linguistics
• Research Institution: Nagasaki University of Foreign Studies
• Principal Investigator: NIIDA Sumino 長崎外国語大学, 外国語学部, 教授 (30532915)
• Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha): ABE Seiya 学習院大学, 文学部, 教授 (80184216)
• Project Period (FY): 2013-04-01 – 2016-03-31
• Keywords: 存在表現 / 所有表現 / 指示代名詞 / 現場指示用法 / 台湾原住民語 / オーストロネシア系言語 / アジア諸言語

Outline of Final Research Achievements

This paper is concerned with Existential and Possessive expressions in Japanese　and Taiwan Aboriginal Languages (Thao, Bunun (Takibakha)), Southeastern Asian and East Asia languages(Vietnamese, Tagalog , Malay, Thai) . Existential and Possessive expressions in Japanese are classified into existence, possession, belonging, special characteristic, internal existence, external existence, subset (of the entire set), and event. And they are described by sentence structure ‘Y (existential place)ni X(existence)ga aru’. After having compared Japanese with these languages, this paper shows the characters in these languages and the differences among them.

Free Research Field

日本語学