Tense-aspect-mood system of Miyagi-Tome-Nakada dialect.

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This study aims to analyze and describe the state of the meaning, function and usage of tense-aspect-mood systems of Miyagi-Tome-Nakada dialect, by examining three types of predicate : simple predicate in finite form, modal complex predicate of possibility and necessity, and predicates of conditional complex sentences. One another purpose of this study is to create the opportunity to digitally record the natural conversational discourse of three native speakers of this dialect, for about 20 hours, as sound data of high quality. This data is now being transcribed to provide for further grammatical analyses.