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Syntax in Nilotic Languages, Information Structure and Linguistic Forms

Research Project

Project/Area Number 24320073
Research Category

Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B)

Allocation TypePartial Multi-year Fund
Section一般
Research Field Linguistics
Research InstitutionTokyo University of Foreign Studies

Principal Investigator

HIEDA Osamu  東京外国語大学, アジア・アフリカ言語文化研究所, 教授 (90181057)

Research Collaborator KAWACHI Kazuhiro  防衛大学校, 総合教育学群, 准教授
KOENIG Christa  ゲーテ(フランクフルト・アム・マイン)大学(フランクフルト), アフリカ言語学研究所, 研究員
HEINE Bernd  ケルン大学, アフリカ学研究所, 教授
Project Period (FY) 2012-04-01 – 2015-03-31
Project Status Completed (Fiscal Year 2014)
Budget Amount *help
¥11,440,000 (Direct Cost: ¥8,800,000、Indirect Cost: ¥2,640,000)
Fiscal Year 2014: ¥5,330,000 (Direct Cost: ¥4,100,000、Indirect Cost: ¥1,230,000)
Fiscal Year 2013: ¥3,380,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,600,000、Indirect Cost: ¥780,000)
Fiscal Year 2012: ¥2,730,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,100,000、Indirect Cost: ¥630,000)
Keywords言語学 / アフリカ言語学 / 統語論 / 情報構造 / ナイル諸語 / 国際研究者交流
Outline of Final Research Achievements

Members of this project supported by JSPS (KAKENHI) conducted a field research on Nilotic languages and published the syntactic data. Not only Nilotists but also general linguists are looking forward to the Nilotic syntactic data to fill a gap in cross-linguistic studies of syntax. The members were concentrating on the project to study interactions between syntax and information structure. This project supplies an academic platform to an international community of scholars who study Nilotic languages. Many scholars from the community contributed papers to the series named as 'Studies in Nilotic Linguistics' published from the platform. In 2014, the international academic meeting 'Information Structure in Africa, with an international workshop on Nilotic Linguistics' was organized by Osamu Hieda. The participants of the meeting included specialists on Information Structure and Nilotists from Japan, Germany, U.K., Denmark, Finland, U.S.A., and Kenya.

Report

(4 results)
  • 2014 Annual Research Report   Final Research Report ( PDF )
  • 2013 Annual Research Report
  • 2012 Annual Research Report

Research Products

(20 results)

All 2015 2014 2013 2012

All Journal Article (10 results) (of which Peer Reviewed: 6 results,  Open Access: 6 results,  Acknowledgement Compliant: 6 results) Presentation (5 results) Book (5 results)

  • [Journal Article] Complementation and Evidential Strategy in Kumam2015

    • Author(s)
      Hieda, Osamu
    • Journal Title

      Journal of Asian and African Studies

      Volume: 89 Pages: 27-46

    • NAID

      120005983147

    • Related Report
      2014 Annual Research Report
    • Peer Reviewed / Open Access / Acknowledgement Compliant
  • [Journal Article] Topicalization and left dislocation in Lango2015

    • Author(s)
      Hieda, Osamu
    • Journal Title

      Studies in Nilotic Linguistics

      Volume: 10 Pages: 77-96

    • NAID

      120006595105

    • Related Report
      2014 Annual Research Report
    • Open Access / Acknowledgement Compliant
  • [Journal Article] Introduction: Forms and meanings in Africa2015

    • Author(s)
      Hieda, Osamu
    • Journal Title

      Journal of Asian and African Languages and Linguistics

      Volume: 9 Pages: 1-4

    • NAID

      120005575551

    • Related Report
      2014 Annual Research Report
    • Peer Reviewed / Open Access / Acknowledgement Compliant
  • [Journal Article] Focus structure in Acooli - Unmarked focus position -2015

    • Author(s)
      Hieda, Osamu
    • Journal Title

      Journal of Asian and African Languages and Linguistics

      Volume: 9 Pages: 131-152

    • Related Report
      2014 Annual Research Report
    • Peer Reviewed / Open Access / Acknowledgement Compliant
  • [Journal Article] Insubordinated conditionals in Kupspiny (Kupsapiiny, Kupsabiny)2015

    • Author(s)
      Kawachi, Kazuhiro
    • Journal Title

      Journal of Asian and African Languages and Linguistics

      Volume: 9 Pages: 65-104

    • Related Report
      2014 Annual Research Report
    • Peer Reviewed / Open Access / Acknowledgement Compliant
  • [Journal Article] Copula contructions in Kupsapiny (Kupsapiiny)2015

    • Author(s)
      Kawachi, Kazuhiro
    • Journal Title

      Studies in Nilotic Linguistics

      Volume: 10 Pages: 97-116

    • Related Report
      2014 Annual Research Report
    • Peer Reviewed / Open Access / Acknowledgement Compliant
  • [Journal Article] Number in Nilotic: a hypothetical consideration from historical perspective.2014

    • Author(s)
      Osamu Hieda
    • Journal Title

      Studies in Nilotic Linguistics

      Volume: 8 Pages: 15-32

    • Related Report
      2013 Annual Research Report
  • [Journal Article] Independent pronouns and topic shift in Kumam.2014

    • Author(s)
      Osamu Hieda
    • Journal Title

      Studies in Nilotic Linguistics

      Volume: 8 Pages: 65-102

    • Related Report
      2013 Annual Research Report
  • [Journal Article] Patterns of expressing motion events in Kupsapiny.2014

    • Author(s)
      Kazuhiro Kawachi
    • Journal Title

      Studies in Nilotic Linguistics

      Volume: 8 Pages: 103-136

    • Related Report
      2013 Annual Research Report
  • [Journal Article] Consonantal system of Datooga (Bajuuta dialect)2012

    • Author(s)
      Hieda, Osamu
    • Journal Title

      Proceedings, 6th World Congress of African Linguistics, Cologne 2009

      Pages: 257-260

    • Related Report
      2012 Annual Research Report
    • Peer Reviewed
  • [Presentation] Topicalization in Lango2014

    • Author(s)
      Hieda, Osamu
    • Organizer
      Information Structure in Africa, with an international workshop on Nilotic Linguistics
    • Place of Presentation
      Kyoto University
    • Year and Date
      2014-10-03
    • Related Report
      2014 Annual Research Report
  • [Presentation] クマム語におけるフォーカス構造について2014

    • Author(s)
      稗田乃
    • Organizer
      ナイル・エチオピア学会学術大会
    • Place of Presentation
      広島
    • Year and Date
      2014-04-20
    • Related Report
      2014 Annual Research Report
  • [Presentation] Complementation and evidential strategy in Kumam.2013

    • Author(s)
      Osamu Hieda
    • Organizer
      Nilo-Saharan Linguistic Colloquium 2013
    • Place of Presentation
      University of Cologne
    • Related Report
      2013 Annual Research Report
  • [Presentation] Possession in Kupsapiny2013

    • Author(s)
      Kazuhiro Kawachi
    • Organizer
      Nilo-Saharan Linguistic Colloqium 2013
    • Place of Presentation
      University of Cologne
    • Related Report
      2013 Annual Research Report
  • [Presentation] Focus structure and the contrastive focus marker aye in Acool2012

    • Author(s)
      Hieda, Osamu
    • Organizer
      Afrikanistisches Kolloquium
    • Place of Presentation
      Goethe University (Frankfurt)
    • Year and Date
      2012-11-09
    • Related Report
      2012 Annual Research Report
  • [Book] Information Structure and Nilotic Languages2015

    • Author(s)
      Hieda, Osamu (ed.)
    • Total Pages
      239
    • Publisher
      Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa
    • Related Report
      2014 Annual Research Report
  • [Book] The Akie Language of Tanzania. A Sketch of Discourse Grammar2015

    • Author(s)
      Koenig, Christa, Bernd Heine and Karsten Legere
    • Total Pages
      182
    • Publisher
      Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa
    • Related Report
      2014 Annual Research Report
  • [Book] Studies in Nilotic Linguistics2014

    • Author(s)
      Osamu Hieda
    • Total Pages
      136
    • Publisher
      Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa
    • Related Report
      2013 Annual Research Report
  • [Book] A Grammar of Kumam. The interaction between syntax and pragmatics.2013

    • Author(s)
      Osamu Hieda
    • Total Pages
      382
    • Publisher
      Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa
    • Related Report
      2013 Annual Research Report
  • [Book] Linguistic Materials of Lango (edited by Osamu Hieda)2013

    • Author(s)
      Noonan, Michael (0. Hieda ed.)
    • Total Pages
      250
    • Publisher
      Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa
    • Related Report
      2012 Annual Research Report

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Published: 2012-04-23   Modified: 2019-07-29  

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