Linguistic Fieldwork on the Jino language and the Study of Language Contact and Linguistic Typology among the Neighboring Languages

基诺语是一种藏缅语族语言，分布于中国云南省景洪市。它有两个主要的方言，即优乐和步远。本研究课题的负责人（以下简称“负责人”）一直在从事悠乐方言的基础语法研究，但对悠乐基诺族词汇和语法的详细情况还需进一步研究。在上述研究背景下，在本研究期间，组长先后四次对悠乐和埠源方言进行了语言学田野调查。至于右乐方言，中心语澄清了语法的各个方面（动词序列、小句链、格标记、系动词句等），考察了该方言的历史发展。2008学年末，笔者走访了泰国北方和老挝，掌握了藏缅语、台和苗瑶民族。2010学年，负责人对地理上和发生学上与基诺族语言相近的哈尼族格朗河方言和拉祜族勐海方言进行了语言学研究。团长收集了前一种语言的基本词汇约1,800项，后一种语言的词汇约500项。虽然还需要进一步的研究，但对这些语言的初步研究可以被认为是解决许多区域语言问题的基础。

The Jino language is a Tibeto-Burman language and spoken in Jinghong city of Yunnan Province, China. It has two main dialects, namely Youle and Buyuan. The head of this research project (henceforth 'head') has been engaged in the basic grammar of the Youle dialect, but the detailed information of Youle Jino lexicon and grammar must have been studied more. Besides, the Buyuan dialect had not been studied in detail.In the research background mentioned above, the head conducted linguistic fieldworks on Youle and Buyuan dialect for four times during this research period. As for Youle dialect, the head clarified various aspects of grammar (verb serialization, clause-chaining, case-marking, copular sentence, etc.), and investigated the historical development of this dialect. As for Buyuan dialect, the lexicon data collected in the field amount to about 2,300 items and the sentence to 550, so that the preliminary reports on the phonology and the tonal development were able to be made.In the end of the academic year of 2008, the head traveled through the northern Thailand and Laos to grasp the basic linguistic and ethnological situation of Tibeto-Burman, Tai-Kadai, and Miao-Yao ethnic groups. In the academic year of 2010, the head conducted linguistic research on the Gelanghe dialect of Hani and the Menghai dialect of Lahu, which are geographically and genetically close to the Jino language. The head collected about 1,800 items of basic vocabulary in the former language and about 500 items of vocabulary in the latter language. Although the further investigation should be needed, the preliminary research on these languages can be considered as a basis for solving many areal linguistic problems.