2001 Fiscal Year Final Research Report Summary

Reconstruction of Language contact History of Khoisan Languages - a case study of |Gui - !Xoo contact

Research Project

Project/Area Number	11610552
Research Category	Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
Allocation Type	Single-year Grants
Section	一般
Research Field	言語学・音声学
Research Institution	Tokyo University of Foreign Studies
Principal Investigator	NAKAGAWA Hirosi Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, Faculty of Foreign Studies, Associate Professor, 外国語学部, 助教授 (70227750)
Project Period (FY)	1999 – 2001
Keywords	Khoisan / \|Gui / !Xoo / hitorical linguistics / language contact
Research Abstract	This study has explored important issues concerning Intra-Khoisan language contact by examining a case of the contact between the two Khoisan languages, \|Gui (a Khoe family language) and !Xoo (a Southern Khoisan language). Data used for this study are latest lexicons of these languages, which are compiled by myself (for \|Gui) and Anthony Traill (for !Xoo). A careful and detailed lexical comparison and analyzes of dialectological researches of the two languages have brought new findings and interpretations about the language contact history of \|Gui and !Xoo. Part of the result of this investigation has already published as Traill ＆ Nakagawa (2000) (see Section 11. REFEREMCERS).

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