A study of Insei-Period Sino-Japanese Hybrids: Jien's Gukansho

• Project/Area Number: 26370552
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Japanese linguistics
• Research Institution: Waseda University
• Principal Investigator: Alberizzi Valerio Luigi 早稲田大学, グローバルエデュケーションセンター, 准教授(任期付) (60630910)
• Project Period (FY): 2014-04-01 – 2017-03-31
• Project Status: Completed (Fiscal Year 2016)
• Budget Amount: ¥2,990,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,300,000、Indirect Cost: ¥690,000); Fiscal Year 2016: ¥650,000 (Direct Cost: ¥500,000、Indirect Cost: ¥150,000); Fiscal Year 2015: ¥650,000 (Direct Cost: ¥500,000、Indirect Cost: ¥150,000); Fiscal Year 2014: ¥1,690,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,300,000、Indirect Cost: ¥390,000)
• Keywords: 和漢混淆文 / 漢文訓読 / 日本語史 / 愚管抄 / デジタル教材

Outline of Final Research Achievements

This survey of Sino-Japanese hybrids in Jien’s Gukansho demonstrated the following:
1) The vocabulary indicates the simultaneous adoption of Japanese vernacular and Sinitic expressions in the same context. 2) Since merging a Sinicized context with a Japanese vernacular one was an elaborate process that involved various degrees of complexity, it is difficult to tell whether such lexical choices were intentional or not. The outcome was often the result of happenstance rather than the product of established rules. 3) Additional research on the language of lectures and Buddhist law sermons in the Middle Ages is needed to offer a complete picture of the Sino-Japanese hybrid writing and properly to place the Gunkansho within the history of middle Japanese.

Research Products

• [Journal Article] The influence of vernacular vocabulary on the Japanese Language (2017)
  • Author(s): Alberizzi Valerio Luigi
  • Journal Title: Handbook of Historical Japanese Linguistics Volume: ー
  • Peer Reviewed / Acknowledgement Compliant
• [Journal Article] Sezoku genbun, Kuchzusami and Wakan roeishu as primers for high ranking aristocrats scions (2017)
  • Author(s): Alberizzi Valerio Luigi
  • Journal Title: Accessing the Cosmopolitan Code in the Sinographic Cosmopolis: Learning Literary Sinitic in Traditional East Asia Volume: ー
  • Peer Reviewed / Acknowledgement Compliant
• [Journal Article] The role of kunten materials in the process of sino-japanese hybridization (2015)
  • Author(s): Alberizzi Valerio L.
  • Journal Title: Quaderni di linguistica e studi orientali Volume: 1 Pages: 3-39
  • Peer Reviewed / Acknowledgement Compliant
• [Presentation] Decoding the text ― Vernacular Japanese reading of Classical Chinese texts (2015)
  • Author(s): Alberizzi Valerio L.
  • Organizer: Laboratoire d'Histoire des Théories linguistiques Scientific Meeting
  • Place of Presentation: パリ第７大学
  • Year and Date: 2015-03-21
  • Invited
• [Presentation] The Pelliot Collection and Japanese glossed materials (2015)
  • Author(s): Alberizzi Valerio L.
  • Organizer: Glossateurs, passeurs de savoir
  • Place of Presentation: フランス国立図書館
  • Year and Date: 2015-03-20
• [Presentation] 新たなる古典日本語の発見 (2014)
  • Author(s): Alberizzi Valerio L.
  • Organizer: 日本語学会
  • Place of Presentation: 北海道大学
  • Year and Date: 2014-10-18
• [Remarks] デジタルテキストブックとインタラクティビティ
  • URL: http://goo.gl/rPElpO