A Typological Survey in Creolization and the Origin of South-East Asian Languages

克里奥尔语类型学调查和东南亚语言的起源

基本信息

批准号：
13610650
负责人：
FUJII Fumio
金额：
$ 2.05万
依托单位：
Ibaraki University
依托单位国家：
日本
项目类别：
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
财政年份：
2001
资助国家：
日本
起止时间：
2001 至 2004
项目状态：
已结题

项目摘要

The present research makes up a part of the continuous investigation project on minority languages in South-East Asia, being carried out by the present author since last several years. The project has been concentrating on collecting and analyzing first-hand data on their present-day spoken languages of some national minorities in this region with the purpose of publishing introductory language books for the general reader. In the same fashion as the former researches, the researcher carried out several fieldworks every year, mainly in Myanmar, collecting data of the spoken variations of the target languages by way of information interview, and analyzed them upon their syntactic structures in order to identify typological properties of these languages.The principal target of research has been Mon, which is said to be spoken in so-called "language islands", scattered mainly in Myanmar and Thailand. This minority language is conceived of as belonging to the Austroasiatic Language Family … More ; in the same way as with the other languages of this language family, however, Mon has long been hardly well investigated hitherto, leaving aside some linguistic-ethnographic aspects such as kinship terms or body parts and genealogical treatises based on such data, what might roughly be summarized as "19th century linguistics". Probably for the first time, the present research was in the position to collect first-hand data of the spoken variety of the present-day Mon language sufficient for making apparent major characteristics of its syntactic structure, which might be fully utilized in preparing an introductory language book in Mon designed for not only language research. Although its publication itself has not been actualized within in the period of the present research, even the general reader might be in a position to gain basic control of this language necessary for taking practical contact to native Mons.As for linguistic treatise in the narrow sense of the term, the present research concentrated, exactly as the former researchers mentioned above, on elaborating the transliteration system of minority languages of the region and standardizing the typological parameters needed for describing different languages and comparing their descriptions with one another so that both a new research on a particular language in this region and a theoretical survey in linguistic typology with a more general character in succession might be carried out with much ease. Less

本研究构成了自从过去几年以来由本作者进行的关于东南亚少数族裔语言的连续投资项目的一部分。该项目一直集中在收集和分析该地区一些全国少数民族的目前口语的第一手数据，目的是为一般读者出版介绍语言书籍。以与前者的研究相同的方式，研究人员每年都在缅甸进行几项实地考察，通过信息访谈收集了目标语言的口语变化的数据，并分析了它们的句法结构，以便识别这些语言的类型学特性。泰国。这种少数语言被认为是属于奥澳属语言家族的……更多。然而，与该语言家族的其他语言相同，迄今为止，MON几乎没有得到很好的调查，抛开了一些语言 - 人类界方面的方面，例如亲属关系术语或身体部位以及基于此类数据的家谱治疗，这可能是大致上总结为“ 19世纪语言学”。本研究可能是第一次，可以收集当今的单语语言的第一手数据，足以使其句法结构具有明显的主要特征，这在MON中不仅是为语言研究设计的介绍语言，因此可以充分利用。尽管其出版本身尚未在本研究的期限内实现，但即使是一般读者也可能能够基本控制这种语言的基本控制，这是在狭义的术语意义上进行语言论的实际接触所必需的，而本术语的语言论文则是在本术语中，本研究集中在上面的前研究人员中，就像上面提到的另一种语言和标准化的少数语言和标准化的语言一样，以详细说明，并将其描述为标准化的少数语言。因此，对该地区的特定语言进行了新的研究以及语言类型学的理论调查，具有更一般性的角色可能会更容易进行。