ILCAA Joint Research Project

Studies on Mongolic languages in Hexi corridor based on published material (jrp000214)

Keywords

• Mongolic languages
• Database

Areas

• China

Website

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About the Project

Project term: April, 2015–March, 2017

From the 1980s to the 1990s, “Mengguyuzu Yuyan Fangyan Yanjiu Congshu (Studies on Mongolic languages and dialects series),” a series of linguistic materials on Mongolic languages, was published by Inner Mongolia University (China), as a product of a linguistic fieldwork project. This series of publication consists of grammatical descriptions (reference grammar), basic vocabularies, and texts of Bonan, Santa/Dongxiang, Monguor/Tu dialects, Eastern Yugur, spoken in the Hexi Corridor region, and Dagur, in the northeastern and northwestern region of China. The aim of the present project is to construct a linguistic database out of the data from the publication (grammatical descriptions, basic vocabularies, and texts in the five languages from the publication), in which all the data are linked to one another. In addition, in this project, each member performs a re-analysis of the data in the database from their viewpoint (Khalkha Mongolian, Buryat, written Mongolian and Chinese dialects, Tibetan dialects, etc.). Through this project, we attempt to provide a more structural and concrete analysis of the grammar of these languages, considering the influence of neighboring languages such as Chinese and Tibetan dialects on phonology, morphology, and syntax as a result of language contact.

Members

Coordinator

• Norikazu KOGURA (ILCAA)

ILCAA Staff

• Tokusu KUREBITO
• Yasuhiro YAMAKOSHI

Joint Researchers

• Hiroyuki UMETANI
• Hitoshi KURIBAYASHI
• Horlo HARNUUD (Rile HAO)
• J̌origtu (Zhaorigetu)
• Nobuharu SATO
• Shiho EBIHARA
• Shinjiro KAZAMA
• Tetsuya KAWASUMI
• Yohei YAMADA
• Yuta MATSUOKA

Outputs

Meetings

The 6th meeting

• Date/Time: Mon 6 Mar 2017 13:00–18:00
• Venue: Room 304, ILCAA
• Organized by Linguistic Dynamics Science Project 3 (LingDy3)

• Norikazu KOGURA (ILCAA)

  “On the ‘Mengguyuzu Yuyan Fangyan Yanjiu Congshu’ Database”

  All members

  Comments and discussion on the database

  All members

  Discussion for the publication

The 5th meeting

• Date/Time: Sat 12 Nov 2016 13:00–17:30, Sun 13 Nov 2016 10:00–13:00
• Venue: Room 304, ILCAA
• Language: English
• Organized by Linguistic Dynamics Science Project 3 (LingDy3)
• 12 Nov

• Erika SANDMAN (University of Helsinki)

  “Grammar of knowledge in Wutun”

  Julie LEFORT (Mahatma Gandhi Institute, Mauritius)

  “An overview of Structural Borrowing and Calquing in the Dongxiang language”

• 13 Nov

• Tokusu KUREBITO (ILCAA)

  “Notes on phonological and morphological characteristics in Eastern Yugur”

The 4th meeting

• Date/Time: Sat 6 Aug 2016 13:00–18:30
• Venue: Room 304, ILCAA
• Organized by Linguistic Dynamics Science Project 3 (LingDy3)

• Shinjiro KAZAMA (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies)

  “Basic bocabularies of languages in Hexi corridor”

  Nobuharu SATO (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Hiroshima University)

  “Issues on the description of Bonan language: with a focus on Jishishan dialect”

  All members

  Discussions on the construction of database

The 3rd meeting ：Report (Japanese)(127KB)

• Date/Time: Fri 11 Mar 2016 13:00–18:30
• Venue: Room 304, ILCAA

• Yasuhiro YAMAKOSHI (ILCAA)

  “Case marking and number marking of the nominals in Mongolic languages”

  Hiroyuki UMETANI (ILCAA Joint Researcher, ILCAA Research Associate)

  “Personal pronouns of the Mongolic languages in Hexi corridor”

  Norikazu KOGURA (ILCAA)

  “Current progress in the construction of ‘Mengguyuzu Yuyan Fangyan Yanjiu Congshu’ database”

  All members

  Discussions on the construction of database

The 2nd meeting ：Report (Japanese)(109KB)

• Date/Time: Sun 4 Oct 2015 10:30–18:30
• Venue: Room 301, ILCAA

• Norikazu KOGURA (ILCAA)

  “Current progress in the construction of ‘Mengguyuzu Yuyan Fangyan Yanjiu Congshu’ database”

  HORLO (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies)

  “Phonological description in ‘Mengguyuzu Yuyan Fangyan Yanjiu Congshu’”

  All members

  Discussion on the project activity

The 1st meeting ：Report (Japanese)(88KB)

• Date/Time: Sun 24 May 2015 10:00–15:30
• Venue: Room 306 (Multimedia Conference Room), ILCAA

• Norikazu KOGURA (ILCAA)

  “Plan of the project”

  Hitoshi KURIBAYASHI (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Tohoku University)

  “Building a database from ‘Mengguyuzu Yuyan Fangyan Yanjiu Congshu’”

  Yohei YAMADA (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies)

  “Evidentiality in ‘Mengguyuzu Yuyan Fangyan Yanjiu Congshu’”

  Shiho EBIHARA (ILCAA Joint Researcher, ILCAA Research Associate)

  “Evidentiality and self/other in Amdo Tibetan”

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