2016 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
An Investigation of Datong Dialects of Chinese: Toward Understanding of the Mechanism of Contact-induced Language Change
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26770154
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)
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| Allocation Type | Multi-year Fund |
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| Research Field |
Linguistics
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| Research Institution | Matsuyama University (2016)
Fukuoka University (2014-2015) |
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Principal Investigator |
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| Project Period (FY) |
2014-04-01 – 2017-03-31
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| Keywords | 言語接触 / 青海省 / 漢語方言 / 土族語 |
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| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
In the process of contact-induced language shift, members of the shifting group may carry over some features of their native language into their version of the target language (TL), which can be called TL2. They may also fail to learn some TL features, and these learners’ errors form part of the TL2. If the shifting group is integrated into the original TL speech community, the linguistic result will be a mixture of the two, a TL3, and it will become the entire community’s language. In the field of contact linguistics, the mechanism which operates to create TL3 is called “negotiation”. This project investigated the characteristics of the mechanism, by comparing two Chinese dialects, Xunrang (TL2) and Qingshan (TL3), both of which are the result of language contact between Chinese and Monguor, and are spoken in Datong Hui and Tu autonomous county, Qinghai province.
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| Free Research Field |
言語学
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