Comparative Research of Conditional Expressions in Japanese Dialects

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The purpose of this research is to analyze the whole aspects of the conditional expressions in modern Japanese by means of investigating the important dialects and comparing or contrasting them, including the standard Japanese, each other as one field of contrastive researches on the grammatical sides of the dialects.The investigation of the causal expression was completed and 'Nationwide Dialects Grammar Dictionary : Causal Expressions' was made up. The contents of this are below.1. Summary of the causal expressionsWhat is the Causal Expressions? / Historical Distribution / Regional Distribution / Causal Conjunctions / Causal Expressions in Tohoku Regions2, Causal Expressions in the dialectsInvestigation Item Lists / Hachinohe Dialect (Aomori Prefecture) /Yamagata Dialect / Narada Dialect(Yamanashi) / Gifu Dialect / Mino Dialect (Gifu) / Toyama Dialect / Kyoto Dialect / Miwacho Dialect (in Miyoshi City, Hiroshima)/Shuri Dialect (Naha City, Okinawa)The investigations of 2 indicate the results below.(1)Every dialect has a general-purpose form which can express all the basic meanings of the causal expression ; Cause of the event, Reason for the act, Reason of the judgment, and Reason of the remark and the attitude.(2) Some forms of the dialects have the limitation in use. For example;・when the main clause is the order and request sentence (GADE/ MONDE in Toyama Dialect)when the mail clause is the predicative sentence (N1 in Gifu Dialect)・the use which doesn't express the reason (GADA/MONDE in Toyama Dialect)・the predication use (SUKE in Hachinohe Dialect, SAKAI in Toyama Dialect, NDE in Kyoto Dialect)・when connected to the guess sentence (SUKE in Hachinohe Dialect, SAKAI in Toyama Dialect, SAIAKNI/SAKAI/ NDE in Kyoto Dialect)the use of sentence final (NI in Gifu Dialect, GAD A/MONDE in toyama Dialect, SHINICHIITEE in Shuri Dialect)The results mentioned above have been opened to the public with the voice data on the following Web sites.URL ; http://hougen.sakura.ne.jp/