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

本项目主要研究者及其合作研究者获得的主要研究结果总结如下：（1）金穗聪等人的研究表明，日语格助词的发展/转换过程和名词短语的结构变化过程可以通过引入句法观点来清晰地揭示。OSHIKA Tadahisa认为，古日语名词性名的本质在于其表语力，它赋予原本缺乏表语力的表达以表语性。（日本古典诗歌）源于其吟诵风格，而不是语言内在本质的直接反映。iv）IUI Yoshihiko详细研究了各种古日语语言材料中“和歌”的书写方式，以考虑“和歌”书写与“假名”（日本本土文字）形成之间的关系。（5）阿部诚哉通过对大量历史和方言材料中的“数据”的分析，对日语味道形容词的基本词汇结构作了新的阐释。（vi）前田博之（Maeda Hiroyuki）证明了生成音系学框架（包括优选论）可以有效地应用于日语语言历史的分析，并对一个著名的《平子物语》文本中的一系列旋律音符进行了音系学解释。

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.