2017 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
A Descriptive Study of Historical Development of Adversative Conjunctions in Modern Japanese
Project/Area Number |
26770166
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Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)
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Allocation Type | Multi-year Fund |
Research Field |
Japanese linguistics
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Research Institution | Chukyo University |
Principal Investigator |
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Project Period (FY) |
2014-04-01 – 2018-03-31
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Keywords | 日本語史 / 条件表現 / 逆接 |
Outline of Final Research Achievements |
The purpose of this study is to investigate historical development of adversative conjunctions in modern Japanese. The main targets are conjunctions such as “soredaga” and “dakedo”, which are composed of a demonstrative, an affirmative auxiliary verb, and a conjunctive particle, and I investigated how their forms and functions changed in modern Japanese. In addition, as a prerequisite for such analysis, it is important to examine how conjunctive particles were used. For that reason, I investigated how conjunctive particles were used in the modern Kamigata Japanese, and contrasted it with that in Edo / Tokyo Japanese in the late Edo era. Furthermore, by using the corpus of modern Japanese which is being developed in recent years, I performed a study of literary styles with the conjunctive particles related to this research project as indicators.
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Free Research Field |
日本語学
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