A descriptive study on Malagasy dialects from an Austronesian comparative perspective

2014 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 25884037
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Research Activity Start-up
• Allocation Type: Single-year Grants
• Research Field: Linguistics
• Research Institution: Kyoto University
• Principal Investigator: NISHIMOTO Noa 京都大学, 白眉センター, 助教 (10712416)
• Project Period (FY): 2013-08-30 – 2015-03-31
• Keywords: マラガシ語 / オーストロネシア語族 / 動詞形態統語論 / 記述言語学 / 民族植物学

Outline of Final Research Achievements

The objectives of this study are :(1) to analyze the verbal categories of Tandroy dialect of Malagasy, (2) to describe the morphological system of the language, (3) to compare Tandroy with other Austronesian languages.
I carried out field research in French Polynesia and gathered the data on Rurutu languages spoken in Austral. I am now preparing the database on Tandroy languages to public as online database. I presented part of my research at some international conferences held in Malaysia, Botswana.

Free Research Field

フィールド言語学