1986 Fiscal Year Final Research Report Summary

A Historical Study of Japanese Go-on

Research Project

Project/Area Number	60510219
Research Category	Grant-in-Aid for General Scientific Research (C)
Allocation Type	Single-year Grants
Research Field	国語学
Research Institution	The University of Tsukuba
Principal Investigator	HAYASHI Chikafumi Institute of Literature and Linguistics,The University of Tsukuba (associate professor), 文芸言語学系, 助教授 (30009617)
Project Period (FY)	1985 – 1986
Keywords	Go-on(@@) / Sei-on(@@) / Gaiten(@@) / Jo-sho(@@) / Kyo-sho(@@) / 過摂 / 上声 / 去声
Research Abstract	The present investigator proposes the following views about old Japanese Go-on. 1)A feature of Zen-sei(@@) and Ji-sei(@@) in ancient Chinese is precisely maintained as a feature of Sei-on(@@) in Japanese Go-on.Chinese characters contradictory to this exist evenly at every category of initial consonants in ancient Chinese. 2) In-bo(@@) of ancient Chinese shows some types in Japanese Go-on. For example, a group of Gai-ten(@@) appears as follow. type 1 Ka-setsu(@@@) Ko-setsu(@@) To-setsu(@@@) type 2 Ko-setsu(@@) Kan-setsu(@@) San-setsu(@@) type 3 Kai-setsu(@@) Type 1 shows a vowel 'a' through four classes(I-IV) of ancient Chinese. Type 2 shows a vowel 'e' at III and IV. Type 3 is considered to consist of three stratum. 3) The tonal confusion of Jo-sho(@@) and Kyo-sho(@@) like in Japanese Go-on is found in materials of Japanese Kan-on(@@).

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