A fundamental study for compiling a new archaic Korean words dictionary

2015 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 25370479
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Linguistics
• Research Institution: Okayama University
• Principal Investigator: TSUJI Seiji 岡山大学, 社会文化科学研究科, 特任教授 (40108113)
• Project Period (FY): 2013-04-01 – 2016-03-31
• Keywords: 中期朝鮮語 / 古語辞典 / 基礎語彙 / 朝鮮資料 / 日本資料 / 語彙研究 / 歴史言語学

Outline of Final Research Achievements

The purpose of this research was to study the foundation for compiling a new archaic Korean words dictionary that is interpreted in Japanese and contains historical information of linguistic exchange between Japan and Korea.
My major research accomplishments for the past three years supported by JSPS are as follows: 1) publication of academic studies about basic body and clothing related vocabulary selected from literature of the Middle Korean period, 15th to 16th century, along with example sentences of the first appearance and interpretation in Japanese, 2) compilation of a bilingual index of Cheophaishineo, a colloquial material in Modern Korean, 3) discovery of new linguistic materials related to the research.Through the research, I confirmed the foundation and identified problems with respect to the dictionary compilation. In addition, I gave a lecture on linguistic similarities between Japanese and Korean at an international conference in Seoul, which was based on this research.

Free Research Field

東アジアの諸言語に関する歴史言語学的研究： 日本・朝鮮資料による朝鮮語史・日本語史研究；漢字音の研究