A descriptive study on grammar of South Asian languages-a typological point of view

2016 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 26284063
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B)
• Allocation Type: Partial Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Linguistics
• Research Institution: Research Institute for Humanity and Nature
• Principal Investigator: Osada Toshiki 総合地球環境学研究所, 研究部, 名誉教授 (50260055)
• Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha): 大西 正幸 同志社大学, 研究開発研究機構, 嘱託研究員 (10299711) ; 高橋 慶治 愛知県立大学, 外国語学部, 教授 (20252405) ; 桐生 和幸 美作大学, 生活科学部, 教授 (30310824) ; 児玉 望 熊本大学, 文学部, 教授 (60225456)
• Project Period (FY): 2014-04-01 – 2017-03-31
• Keywords: 言語類型論 / 南アジア諸言語 / 記述文法 / Expressives

Outline of Final Research Achievements

This study is to describe a grammar of several languages in South Asia; e.g. Bengali from Indo-Arayan languages, Telugu from Dravidian languages, Mundari from Munda languages, and Kinauri and Newari from Tibeto-Burmese languages. These grammars will be written in Japanese and in typological perspectives. As a result of this study, grammar of Bengali is almost finished and other grammars were frame-worked according to the analysis using by the World Atlas of Language Structure (WALS)

Free Research Field

言語学