| Budget Amount *help |
¥3,380,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,600,000、Indirect Cost: ¥780,000)
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: ¥1,300,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,000,000、Indirect Cost: ¥300,000)
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| Research Abstract |
The Jino language is a Tibeto-Burman language and spoken in Jinghong city of Yunnan Province, China. It has two main dialects, namely Youle and Buyuan. The head of this research project (henceforth 'head') has been engaged in the basic grammar of the Youle dialect, but the detailed information of Youle Jino lexicon and grammar must have been studied more. Besides, the Buyuan dialect had not been studied in detail.
In the research background mentioned above, the head conducted linguistic fieldworks on Youle and Buyuan dialect for four times during this research period. As for Youle dialect, the head clarified various aspects of grammar (verb serialization, clause-chaining, case-marking, copular sentence, etc.), and investigated the historical development of this dialect. As for Buyuan dialect, the lexicon data collected in the field amount to about 2,300 items and the sentence to 550, so that the preliminary reports on the phonology and the tonal development were able to be made.
In the end of the academic year of 2008, the head traveled through the northern Thailand and Laos to grasp the basic linguistic and ethnological situation of Tibeto-Burman, Tai-Kadai, and Miao-Yao ethnic groups. In the academic year of 2010, the head conducted linguistic research on the Gelanghe dialect of Hani and the Menghai dialect of Lahu, which are geographically and genetically close to the Jino language. The head collected about 1,800 items of basic vocabulary in the former language and about 500 items of vocabulary in the latter language. Although the further investigation should be needed, the preliminary research on these languages can be considered as a basis for solving many areal linguistic problems.
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