Research on Understudied Languages of North-East Turkic: Comprehensive Description and Diachronic Explanation

2016 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 26704004
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (A)
• Allocation Type: Partial Multi-year Fund
• Research Field: Linguistics
• Research Institution: Niigata University
• Principal Investigator: Ebata Fuyuki 新潟大学, 人文社会・教育科学系, 准教授 (80709874)
• Project Period (FY): 2014-04-01 – 2017-03-31
• Keywords: チュルク諸語 / 記述言語学 / 対照言語学 / サハ語 / トゥバ語

Outline of Final Research Achievements

This research targets three Northeastern Turkic languages (Sakha, Tyvan and Khakas), and aims to describe their language structures and to reveal the pathway of historical change. First I examined several grammatical aspects of the Tyvan language through the linguistic fieldwork conducted in the 2014, 2015 and 2016 years. Then I compared the morpho-syntactic characteristics of Sakha with those of Tyvan. It is concluded that some grammatical properties are unique to the Sakha language, and it is highly probable that these linguistic features of Sakha have developed through language contact with neighboring Tungusic languages.

Free Research Field

言語学