| Budget Amount *help |
¥4,550,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,500,000、Indirect Cost: ¥1,050,000)
Fiscal Year 2010: ¥1,040,000 (Direct Cost: ¥800,000、Indirect Cost: ¥240,000)
Fiscal Year 2009: ¥1,040,000 (Direct Cost: ¥800,000、Indirect Cost: ¥240,000)
Fiscal Year 2008: ¥1,040,000 (Direct Cost: ¥800,000、Indirect Cost: ¥240,000)
Fiscal Year 2007: ¥1,430,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,100,000、Indirect Cost: ¥330,000)
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| Research Abstract |
This paper investigates the developmental process of Japanese language included in dialects by analyzing the pattern of its propagation. The paper focuses on conditional expressions, expressions of will and conjecture, and polite expressions found in Grammar Atlas of Japanese Dialects (GAJ) and investigates them from the perspectives of geo-linguistics, Japanese historical linguistics and dialectology. As a result, five patterns were found. They share a concentric pattern of language distribution originated from Kink, the ancient central area of Japan, as the base. Additional patterns include contrasting patterns in Eastern Japan and Western Japan, and two new concentric patterns originated from Edo and Tokyo, the city area in the eastern region, and Keihan, the city areas in the western region.
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