A diachronic and typological study of Sardinian from a point of view of morphosyntax in undocumented dialects

2022 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 19K00563
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Review Section: Basic Section 02060:Linguistics-related
• Research Institution: Kindai University (2020-2022); Shiga Junior College (2019)
• Principal Investigator: Kanazawa Yusuke 近畿大学, 国際学部, 准教授 (70713288)
• Project Period (FY): 2019-04-01 – 2023-03-31
• Keywords: サルデーニャ語 / ロマンス諸語 / 歴史言語学 / 使役文 / 不定詞 / 存在文 / イタリア語 / 形態統語論

Outline of Final Research Achievements

This study mainly argued the following issues related to morphosyntax in Old Sardinian: (1) The causative construction consists of two independent clauses, (2) the grammaticalization of the clitic (proform) in possessive and locative sentences is involved in the formation of existential sentences, and (3) non-inflected infinitives in the Logudorese dialect are older than inflected infinitives, and inflected infinitives arose secondarily through morphological influence from the imperfect subjunctive. The absence of inflected infinitives in the Campidanese dialect, on the other hand, is the result of contact with Italian, in which the imperfect subjunctive was replaced by the pluperfect subjunctive.

Free Research Field

言語学

Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements

ロマンス諸語の類型論的研究では、主要なロマンス語のみが分析対象とされることが多い。本研究ではサルデーニャ語のような少数ロマンス語に目を向けることで、ロマンス諸語の通時的研究および類型論的研究の進展に寄与できたと思われる。また、サルデーニャ語研究は国内ではまだまだ発展途上にある。本研究成果の一部を日本国内で発表することで、サルデーニャ語研究の裾野をわずかながら広げることができた点に意義がある。