Principles of Changes in Conditional Expressions in Modern Kansai Japanese

本研究的目的是调查大阪现代语言中条件表达的使用及其具体变化，并探讨变化的原因。具体方法和结果如下：作为近代关西日语文献整理的一部分，收录了大正和昭和早期用留声机记录的16个大阪乐歌故事。通过对比留声机录音和说唱故事的速记记录，我们发现了说唱的语言特性，主要集中在条件表达上。结果表明，速记抄录具有书面语言特有的保守性，记录中很少观察到的某些语言用法可以在抄录中有效地观察到。随着明治时代的到来，tara作为连接词的使用频率开始超过nara、to和在某些情况下虚拟语气条件下的虚拟语气+ ba。然而，应该补充的是，根据虚拟语气表达的用法，这种过渡在时间上存在差异，在一些地区，to和虚拟语气形式+ ba继续被使用。这是大阪方言/神潟语的简化或过渡到分析语言的一个例子，并提供了一种典型的方式，可以理解区域语言的变化。

The objectives of this study were to investigate the usage of conditional expressions in modern language in Osaka and their specific changes and to examine the reasons for the changes. The specific methods and results were as follows :1.As part of the arrangement of documents on modern Kansai Japanese, 16 Osaka rakugo tales recorded on phonograph in the Taisho and the early Showa periods were transcribed.2.Based on a comparison between the phonograph recordings and the shorthand transcriptions of rakugo storytelling, the linguistic properties that rakugo has were identified, focused on conditional expressions. It was demonstrated that shorthand transcriptions have a conservative nature peculiar to written language and that a certain language usage seldom observed in recordings can be effectively observed the transcriptions.3.With the advent of the Meiji period, tara as a conjunctive particle begins to be more often used than nara, to and a subjunctive form + ba in some cases of the usages of subjunctive conditions. It should be added, however, that there were temporal differences of the transition depending on the usages of subjunctive expressions and in some regions to and a subjunctive form + ba continued to be used. This is an example of the simplification or the transition to an analytic language of the Osaka dialect/the Kamigata language and provides a typical way in which changes in regional languages can be understood.