2013 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
A Corpus-based Typological Study of Ainu Verbal Categories
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22720169
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Research Field |
Linguistics
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| Research Institution | National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics (2012-2013)
Waseda University (2010-2011) |
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Principal Investigator |
BUGAEVA Anna 大学共同利用機関法人人間文化研究機構国立国語研究所, 言語対照研究系, 特任准教授 (40550075)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2010-04-01 – 2014-03-31
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| Keywords | アイヌ語 / 危機言語 / ヴォイス / 充当 / 使役 / 再起 / 逆受動 / 言語類型論 |
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| Research Abstract |
Ainu, a moribund language in Northern Japan. The genetic affiliation of Ainu is unknown. Its importance for the study Northeast Asia's linguistic past and for understanding the diversity of human knowledge and experience may hardly be overestimated. Within this project, I continued buiding up a corpus of an annotated corpus of Ainu audio materials. On its basis I have investigated Ainu verbal categories, namely voices, in a typological perspective. The morphosyntactic wealth of Ainu voices includes reciprocals, reflexives, antipassives, applicatives, causatives, and anticausatives, most of which I have published on within the grant period. Moreover, various voices may combine in many possible ways, which I have illustrated by my Ainu valency database (a part of the ValPal Leipzig database). The project as a whole is aimed at opening the field of Ainu studies to the world and helping people to appreciate linguistic and cultural contribution of the Ainu to human intellectual heritage.
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Research Products
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[Presentation] V-V complexes in Ainu2013
Author(s)
Bugaeva, Anna & Hiroshi Nakagawa
Organizer
NINJAL International Symposium 2013. Misteries of Verb-Verb complexes in Asian languages
Place of Presentation
NINJAL, Tokyo
Year and Date
2013-12-14
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