Reconsidering the linguo-genetical position of the G||ana group in the Khoe languages.

2014 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 22320080
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B)
• Allocation Type: Single-year Grants
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Linguistics
• Research Institution: Reitaku University
• Principal Investigator: ONO Hitomi 麗澤大学, 外国語学部, 教授 (70245273)
• Project Period (FY): 2010-04-01 – 2015-03-31
• Keywords: コイサン / 歴史 / 親族名称 / 文法 / コエ語族

Outline of Final Research Achievements

This study compares Khoe languages in order to determine whether a number of anomalous features, linguistic and social anthropological, found only in the G//ana group should be interpreted as a result of regular/plausible historical change or not. The two foci of interest are person-gender-number marking systems and kinship systems. The study concludes that the PGN marking systems and relating phenomena to them, such as the extent of mobility of linguistic elements, exhibit a continuum in the family, whereas the distribution pattern of features relating to kinship systems is discontinuous and could not have been generated without influence from outside the Khoe family.

Free Research Field

言語学