2009 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
Reexamination of Isoglosses of Northwest Semitic Languages in the Second and First Millennium B.C.E.: GIS driven linguistic geography
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18520292
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Research Field |
Linguistics
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| Research Institution | University of Tsukuba |
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Principal Investigator |
IKEDA Jun University of Tsukuba, 大学院・人文社会科学研究科, 教授 (60288850)
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| Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) |
INUI Hideyuki 山口大学, 人文学部, 准教授 (10241754)
TAKEUCHI Shigeo 京都産業大学, 文化学部, 准教授 (60268092)
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| Research Collaborator |
IZRE'EL Shlomo テルアビブ大学, セム語学科, 教授
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| Project Period (FY) |
2006 – 2009
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| Keywords | 言語学 / 言語地理学 / 北西セム語 / 言語地図 / GIS |
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| Research Abstract |
We have built a pilot program, which enables us to search through a linguistic database of XML marked-up Northwest Semitic texts with spatial information. The program sends search results to a Geographical Information System, which generates a linguistic map on the fly. We have also conducted case studies using the pilot program and argued that the verbal ending -(n)na and the infinitive used as a finite verb may have been a linguistic innovation spread from (north of) Phoenicia to the south.
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