| 研究開始時の研究の概要 |
This project enables the research in East Africa for five years. One month a year PI will visit Djibouti, Kenya and Ethiopia and collect data in East Cushitic languages-Somali, Afar, Dhaasanac, Rendille, Oromo, Borana, Burji and others. The research topics are negation and polarity items, indexicality and presupposition projection. The current study will investigate negative, positive and bipolar items, if any, and generalize the distribution. Moreover, the indexicals-person, time and location-will be tested with de re, de dicto and de nunc interpretations.
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