GENGO KENKYU (Journal of the Linguistic Society of Japan)

Linguistics and Semiotics

Shigeo KAWAMOTO

1981 Volume 1981 Issue 80 Pages 1-12
Published: November 30, 1981
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DOIhttps://doi.org/10.11435/gengo1939.1981.80_1

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Resumé of the presidential address at the 1981 Spring Convention of the Linguistic Society of Japan. The author tries to show by means ofconcrete examples how semiotics may be brought to collaborate withlinguistics to interpret poems and poetic express

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A Pattern Analysis of Dialectal Differences by Area and Age

Fumio INOUE

1981 Volume 1981 Issue 80 Pages 13-31
Published: November 30, 1981
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DOIhttps://doi.org/10.11435/gengo1939.1981.80_13

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A multi-variate analysis was applied to dialectal data which were ordered by area and age. Lexical and grammatical items in ‘glottograms’ (maps showing dialectal distribution by area and age simultaneously) of the Mogami district in Yamagata Prefecture have been rendered to ‘Hayasi’ squantification theory, type III'.
As for lexical items, the district was divided into three areas (settlement1 to 12, 13 to 28, and 29 to 31). Many ‘new dialectal forms’ (shinhogen) were observed to be distributed among the younger people inthe central city, and some others in mountainous region. As for grammaticalitems, the district was divided into two areas (settlement 1 to 28and 29 to 31). The ‘new dialectal forms’ were observed to have beenadopted by the younger people of the whole area.
Thus an overall consideration of the dialectal changes and an objectivedivision of the dialect were made possible by the application of themulti-variate analysis.

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Moraic classification and syllabic classification of accentual patterns of common Japanese

Toichi IMAZU

1981 Volume 1981 Issue 80 Pages 32-50
Published: November 30, 1981
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DOIhttps://doi.org/10.11435/gengo1939.1981.80_32

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Four accentual patterns of common Japanese, which are based on the difference of pitches between moras, seem to be inadequate to set up phonological rules of common Japanese accent, because it is generally ineffective to describe deep structures by means of surface forms. Then we will try to build phonological accentual patterns through which we can research the deep structures of common Japanese accent. Like Classical Greek and Latin, Japanese is said to belong to a group of mora-counting languages, which usually make use of both syllables and moras as prosodic units. Common Japanese, accordingly, can be expected to employ the double-count method as in the abovementioned classical languages. In place of the prevalent patterns, therefore, we will make use of the famous Greek accentual patterns, which may correspond to the current ones of common Japanese as follows:(oxytone tail-high type),
(oxytone, paroxytone, proparoxytone convex-type). If we can regard the four patterns as phonetic, the patters which will be used hereafter may be regarded as phonological, because in the latter the accent core is considered to fall on the syllable, not on the mora. What follows is a comparison of phonological patterns with phonetic ones in regard to the effectiveness of formalization of common Japanese accent.

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Whorf's ‘covert category’ and Leach's ‘ambiguity’

Michiko ARIMA

1981 Volume 1981 Issue 80 Pages 51-68
Published: November 30, 1981
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DOIhttps://doi.org/10.11435/gengo1939.1981.80_51

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This paper is written in order to add explanation to the part, pp.137-142, of my exposition in Gengo-no Sotaisei-ni-tsuite (On Linguistic Relativity)(Taishukan, 1980), and make it clearer. The main theme of the discussion here is to show definitely the common technique found in Whorf's'covert category' and in Leach's ‘ambiguity’, and the originality of each of them.

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A Preface to Diachronic Investigation of Indo-European Synt

Kazuhiko YOSHIDA

1981 Volume 1981 Issue 80 Pages 69-95
Published: November 30, 1981
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DOIhttps://doi.org/10.11435/gengo1939.1981.80_69

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There is an extensive body of literature on phonology and morphology in the field of Indo-European comparative and historical linguistics, but when we turn to syntax, the situation is quite different. Since the early nineteenth century, syntax has been conspicuously brushed aside in the glorious history of IE studies. In recent years, however, there has been an increasing interest in syntactic reconstruction and syntactic change. In spite of the recent advances, many problems remain to be solved in diachronic syntactic investigation of the Indo-European languages.
Two general conclusions are to be drawn from this preliminary study of Indo-European syntax.
1. We suggest that the unmarked word order in Proto-Indo-European was Subject-Object-Verb. The three kinds of evidence from older Germanic languages, that is, predominance of SOV order in subordinate clauses, in ternal OV order of nominal compounds and higher proportion of SOV order to SVO in the earlier runic inscriptions, would support the SOV assumption.
2. We have attempted to explain on the basis of internal factors why the Germanic languages have changed in their basic word order from SOV to SVO. We suggest that topicalization, case marking and reinterpretation were closely related to the change from SOV to SVO. Subordinate clauses may preserve unmarked word order because topicalization does not play an important role in subordinate clauses.

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DIE STELLUNG DES VERBS IN HAUPTUND NEBENSÄTZEN

Eine Untersuchung über den Unterschied der Stellung des Verbs auf Grund altgermanischer Denkmäler der Poesie

Takeshi TESHIMA

1981 Volume 1981 Issue 80 Pages 96-118
Published: November 30, 1981
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DOIhttps://doi.org/10.11435/gengo1939.1981.80_96

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1981 Volume 1981 Issue 80 Pages 119-123
Published: November 30, 1981
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1981 Volume 1981 Issue 80 Pages 124-132
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1981 Volume 1981 Issue 80 Pages 133-136
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1981 Volume 1981 Issue 80 Pages 136-139
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1981 Volume 1981 Issue 80 Pages 139-141
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1981 Volume 1981 Issue 80 Pages 141-144
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1981 Volume 1981 Issue 80 Pages 144-147
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1981 Volume 1981 Issue 80 Pages 147-150
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1981 Volume 1981 Issue 80 Pages 150-153
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1981 Volume 1981 Issue 80 Pages 153-155
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1981 Volume 1981 Issue 80 Pages 155-157
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Kirsten REFSING

1981 Volume 1981 Issue 80 Pages 158-160
Published: November 30, 1981
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DOIhttps://doi.org/10.11435/gengo1939.1981.80_158

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