2005 Fiscal Year Final Research Report Summary

Study on the base dialect of Japanese Go'on - A comparison with the Wu dialects of Chinese

Research Project

Project/Area Number	16520243
Research Category	Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
Allocation Type	Single-year Grants
Section	一般
Research Field	Linguistics
Research Institution	Ehime University
Principal Investigator	AKITANI Hiroyuki Ehime University, Faculty of Law and Letters, Associate Professor, 法文学部, 助教授 (10263964)
Project Period (FY)	2004 – 2005
Keywords	Sino-Japanese / Japanese Go'on / basis dialect / Wu Dialects of Chinese / Chinese / Chuqu Subgroup of Wu
Research Abstract	The purpose of this study is to demonstrate that the Chinese Wu Dialects of the six dynasties period was the basis dialect of Japanese Go'on through the near investigation of shared phonological innovations. I was in an approximately perfect state about the phonological data of Chinese Wu dialects that can be compare with the Japanese Go'on. However, I was reverse to this original possibility. It cannot be always said that Wu Dialects was a basis dialect of Japan Go'on. I discussed this in the article "Some problems in the comparison of Japanese Go'on and Chinese southern dialects" that I printed in the research report of this project. However, the accumulation of phonological data and considerations of methodology has been achieved. I want to continue further examination in future.

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