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Studies on people's migration and language contacts around Lake Tanganyika

Research Project

Project/Area Number 26370477
Research Category

Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)

Allocation TypeMulti-year Fund
Section一般
Research Field Linguistics
Research InstitutionTokyo Woman's Christian University (2017-2018)
Tokyo University of Foreign Studies (2014-2016)

Principal Investigator

Abe Yuko  東京女子大学, 現代教養学部, 准教授 (80724442)

Project Period (FY) 2014-04-01 – 2019-03-31
Project Status Completed (Fiscal Year 2018)
Budget Amount *help
¥4,420,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,400,000、Indirect Cost: ¥1,020,000)
Fiscal Year 2017: ¥1,300,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,000,000、Indirect Cost: ¥300,000)
Fiscal Year 2016: ¥1,040,000 (Direct Cost: ¥800,000、Indirect Cost: ¥240,000)
Fiscal Year 2015: ¥910,000 (Direct Cost: ¥700,000、Indirect Cost: ¥210,000)
Fiscal Year 2014: ¥1,170,000 (Direct Cost: ¥900,000、Indirect Cost: ¥270,000)
Keywordsタンガニイカ湖 / バントゥ諸語 / ベンデ・トングェ語 / Microvariation / Persistive / 未完了アスペクト / 言語取替え / ベンデ-トングェ / 移住 / スワヒリ語文化圏 / ブルンジ / ザンビア / コンゴ民主共和国
Outline of Final Research Achievements

The studies have started at the beginning with preliminary survey on Taabwa and Bembe languages of DRC where the further survey became impossible because of the domestic affairs. The outputs consist of two types; (1) the investigation covering the whole languages around Lake Tanganyika remained with a grammatical topic such as “imperfective aspects”, and (2) languages in Tanzania and Zambia were described more systematically especially in morphosyntax.
Some outputs of comparative studies on imperfective aspects were presented and published, while some languages were segregated by 142 Microvariation parameters compiled by a project team from SOAS, University of London. Bende data of Microvariation have been published, while other language data are still on the process for publishing.

Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements

タンガニイカ湖は現在、タンザニア、ブルンジ、コンゴ民主共和国、ザンビアの4国の国境線をなしており、近代国家の成立以来、民族語はそれぞれの国の歴史を背景としてリンガフランカや英語・フランス語等の公用語との接触による変化が進んでいる。これらの民族語については限定的な語彙調査による言語分類が試みられているものの、それらの分類が人々の語りや民族誌と異なることもある。
そこで、限定的な語彙のみではなく、文法項目や特殊語彙(動植物名、鉄・土器に関する語彙)、さらに民族誌を総合的に記述することで、無文字社会の歴史の再構築に新たな資料を提供する。

Report

(6 results)
  • 2018 Annual Research Report   Final Research Report ( PDF )
  • 2017 Research-status Report
  • 2016 Research-status Report
  • 2015 Research-status Report
  • 2014 Research-status Report

Research Products

(21 results)

All 2019 2018 2017 2016 2015 2014 Other

All Int'l Joint Research (6 results) Journal Article (3 results) (of which Peer Reviewed: 3 results,  Open Access: 2 results,  Acknowledgement Compliant: 1 results) Presentation (7 results) (of which Int'l Joint Research: 4 results) Book (3 results) Remarks (2 results)

  • [Int'l Joint Research] ロンドン大学SOAS(英国)

    • Related Report
      2017 Research-status Report
  • [Int'l Joint Research] ダルエスサラーム大学(タンザニア)

    • Related Report
      2017 Research-status Report
  • [Int'l Joint Research] ゲント大学(ベルギー)

    • Related Report
      2017 Research-status Report
  • [Int'l Joint Research] ロンドン大学SOAS(英国)

    • Related Report
      2016 Research-status Report
  • [Int'l Joint Research] ダルエスサラーム大学(タンザニア)

    • Related Report
      2016 Research-status Report
  • [Int'l Joint Research] ゲント大学(ベルギー)

    • Related Report
      2016 Research-status Report
  • [Journal Article] Morphosyntactic Variation of the Persistive Aspect in Lake Tanganyika Bantu2019

    • Author(s)
      Yuko Abe
    • Journal Title

      Eva-Marie Bloom Strom, Hannah Gibson, Rozenn Guerois, Lutz Marten (eds.) Morphosyntactic Variation in Bantu (Oxford University Press)

      Volume: -

    • Related Report
      2018 Annual Research Report
    • Peer Reviewed
  • [Journal Article] Event integration Patterns in Bende (Bantu, F12)2016

    • Author(s)
      ABE, Yuko
    • Journal Title

      Asian and African Languages and Linguistic

      Volume: No.10 Pages: 157-178

    • NAID

      120005743971

    • Related Report
      2015 Research-status Report
    • Peer Reviewed / Open Access / Acknowledgement Compliant
  • [Journal Article] Persistive in Bende --- On the grammaticalization path ---2015

    • Author(s)
      ABE, Yuko
    • Journal Title

      アジア・アフリカの言語と言語学 (Asian and African languages and linguistics)

      Volume: 9 Pages: 23-44

    • NAID

      120005575553

    • Related Report
      2014 Research-status Report
    • Peer Reviewed / Open Access
  • [Presentation] Verb Categories in Bende (F.12)2018

    • Author(s)
      Yuko Abe
    • Organizer
      The 7th International Conference on Bantu Languages
    • Related Report
      2018 Annual Research Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] "Toward Micro-variation Parameters of Persistive in Lake Tanganyika Bantu"2016

    • Author(s)
      Yuko ABE
    • Organizer
      The 6th International Conference on Bantu Languages
    • Place of Presentation
      University of Helsinki
    • Year and Date
      2016-06-22
    • Related Report
      2016 Research-status Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] Event integration patterns in Bende (Bantu, F.12), with a special focus on motion2015

    • Author(s)
      ABE, Yuko
    • Organizer
      8th World Congress of African Languages
    • Place of Presentation
      Kyoto University
    • Year and Date
      2015-08-23
    • Related Report
      2015 Research-status Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] How African languages fit in Talmy's typology of event integration2015

    • Author(s)
      Kazuhiro Kawachi, Yuko Abe, Osamu Hieda, Kyoko Koga, Junko Komori, Nobuko Yoneda, and Hiroshi Yoshino
    • Organizer
      13th International Conference of Cognitive Linguistics
    • Place of Presentation
      Northumbria University, UK
    • Year and Date
      2015-07-22
    • Related Report
      2015 Research-status Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] Motion expression patterns in African languages2015

    • Author(s)
      KAWACHI, Kazuhiro, Yuko Abe, Osamu Hieda, Kyoko Koga, Junko Komori, Nobuko Yoneda, and Hiroshi Yoshino
    • Organizer
      NINJAL International Symposium Typology and Cognition in Motion Event Description
    • Place of Presentation
      国立国語研究所
    • Year and Date
      2015-01-25
    • Related Report
      2014 Research-status Report
  • [Presentation] ベンデ語(タンザニア、バントゥ)の持続相標示si-/sya-2014

    • Author(s)
      阿部優子
    • Organizer
      日本言語学会第148回大会
    • Place of Presentation
      法政大学
    • Year and Date
      2014-06-07
    • Related Report
      2014 Research-status Report
  • [Presentation] Persistiveアスペクトから見たベンデ語の辿った道2014

    • Author(s)
      阿部優子
    • Organizer
      第51回日本アフリカ学会研究発表会
    • Place of Presentation
      京都大学
    • Year and Date
      2014-05-25
    • Related Report
      2014 Research-status Report
  • [Book] Descriptive Materials of Morphosyntactic Variation in Bantu2019

    • Author(s)
      Shinagawa, Daisuke and Yuko Abe (eds.)
    • Publisher
      ILCAA, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies
    • ISBN
      9784863372979
    • Related Report
      2018 Annual Research Report
  • [Book] 『Kabendeni. Historia fupi ya wilaya ya Mpanda-Katavi na watu wake, kabila la Wabende /The Short History of Mpanda District ; Katavi Region: Bende Tribe and its People /カタヴィ州ンパンダ県小史:ベンデ民族とその人々』2017

    • Author(s)
      Lumbwe, Juma H. , Yuko Abe (ed.)
    • Total Pages
      113
    • Publisher
      ILCAA, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies
    • Related Report
      2016 Research-status Report
  • [Book] Tusahule Sibhende (Tuongee Kibende)2015

    • Author(s)
      MASHAKA, Yasini, Hamisi Kaboko, and Yuko Abe
    • Total Pages
      68
    • Publisher
      ILCAA, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies
    • Related Report
      2014 Research-status Report
  • [Remarks] Bende Language Project

    • URL

      http://bendeproject.aa-ken.jp/

    • Related Report
      2015 Research-status Report
  • [Remarks] Language Resources and Metadata

    • URL

      http://aflang-res.aa-ken.jp/?page_id=26

    • Related Report
      2015 Research-status Report

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Published: 2014-04-04   Modified: 2022-02-22  

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