Reconstruction of the theoretical and 実証的 foundation of the historical study in Japanese Language

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The main investigation results obtained by this project's principal investigator and his co-investigators are summarized as follows : i) KINSUI Satoshi and his collaborators have shown that the development/transition process of case particles and the structural change process of nominal phrases in Japanese can be clearly revealed by introducing a syntactic viewpoint.ii) OSHIKA Tadahisa has argued that the essence of Old Japanese adnominal nari lay in its predicative force which assigns predicativity to expressions originally lacking such a force.iii) TAKAYAMA Michiaki has argued that hypermeter in "waka" (classical Japanese poetry) stems from its chanting style, not a direct reflect of the language's intrinsic nature. iv) INUI Yoshihiko has examined in detail how "waka" were written in a wide variety of Old Japanese linguistic materials to consider the relationship between "waka" writing and the formation of "kana" (Japanese native script). v) Based on the analysis of d'ata collected from a variety of historical and dialectal linguistic materials, ABE Seiya has shed new light on part of the 'fundamental lexical structure of Japanese taste adjectives. vi) MAEDA Hiroyuki has shown that a generative phonological framework (including Optimality Theory) is fruitfully applicable to the analysis of Japanese language history and given a phonological interpretation to a sequence of melody notes in a version of musically noted Heiko Monogatari text.