Descriptive Study of the Northern Central Bantu Languages

中北部班图语言的描述性研究

基本信息

批准号：
11691013
负责人：
KAGAYA Ryohei
金额：
$ 16.92万
依托单位：
TOKYO UNIVERSITY OF FOREIGN STUDIES
依托单位国家：
日本
项目类别：
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (A)
财政年份：
1999
资助国家：
日本
起止时间：
1999 至 2001
项目状态：
已结题

项目摘要

During the term of this research project ( 1999-2001 ) we have done linguistic research on Bantu languages in Tanzania, Kenya and Uganda. The number of languages we researched was 30 and it is over our expectation before. Our research is to gather whole information on a language in question precisely, that is, for each language we collected words over 2000, recorded and analyzed phones and phonemes, and analyzed precisely the grammar of the language in question.The research during these three years was almost as successful as we planned this project. some of results, we could derive the new general linguistic information from the tonological research of Bantu languages. We also succeeded in descriptive study of endangered languages and linguistic changes of vernacular languages. However, there are so many endangered languages in Africa, and if we miss the present days it may become difficult to describe and record them. Furthermore, languages in Africa are changing in the speed that we do not have experienced so far. From these facts, we think that our research on Ban languages is very fruitful and we should continue to conduct this linguistic research more extensively. We can say that Africa is a large "linguistic laboratory " and we need to research languages in a "fixed point observation way " to understand real processes of a language change.We have published many results in academic meetings and journals. Furthermore we are planning to publish many papers and a book on this project in near future.The following people joined in this research project as research cooperators : Prof. R.Besha (Univ. of Dar es Salaam), Prof. K.Kahigi (Univ. of Dar es Salaam), Ms.K.Komori (Ohsaka Univ, of Foreign Studies), Mr. T. Kamiya (graduate student, Tokyo Univ. of Foreign Studies), Ms, Y. Abe (graduate student, Tokyo Univ. "of Foreign Studies). ,

在该研究项目（1999-2001）期间，我们在坦桑尼亚，肯尼亚和乌干达进行了语言研究。我们研究的语言数量为30，这超出了我们的期望。我们的研究是要准确地收集有关一种有关语言的全部信息，也就是说，对于我们收集了2000年以上单词的每种语言，记录和分析了电话和音素，并精确地分析了所讨论的语言的语法。几乎与我们计划该项目一样成功。一些结果，我们可以从班图语的音调研究中得出新的一般语言信息。我们还成功地研究了濒危语言的描述性研究和语言语言的语言变化。但是，非洲有很多濒临灭绝的语言，如果我们错过现在的日子，可能很难描述和记录它们。此外，非洲的语言正在以我们到目前为止还没有经历的速度变化。从这些事实来看，我们认为我们对禁令语言的研究非常富有成果，我们应该继续更广泛地进行这项语言研究。我们可以说，非洲是一个大型的“语言实验室”，我们需要以“固定点观察方式”来研究语言，以了解语言变化的真实过程。我们在学术会议和期刊上发表了许多结果。此外，我们计划在不久的将来发表许多论文和一本有关该项目的书。以下人员以研究合作者的身份加入了该研究项目：R.Besha教授（Dar Es Salaam大学），K.Kahigi教授（达累斯萨拉姆大学的大学。 “外国研究）。