Towards a Reference Grammar of Modern Tibetan

这个项目的目的是描述现代藏语的一些有争议的方面，这导致我们的语言的参考语法。争议的方面包括类型学问题，如作格性、语态和主语，以及社会语言学问题，如中国和印度的语言接触和双语。为了实现这一研究目的，日本、中国、印度三方共同制定了一个三角研究项目，在每个财政年度，在实际研究之前，召开一次会议，由所有研究人员讨论理论问题。这样的会议似乎是不可或缺的，我们在理论问题上达成了初步的共识，但由于各国理论语言学的差距很大，这种共识并不一定总是一致的。这次会议之后，每个研究者都进行了实地调查，并将他/她积累的数据计算机化。经过两次重复，我们发现了几个方面，这与规范的藏文语法规范相去甚远。每个研究者都达到了一个阶段，他/她可以描述一个参考语法的藏语，分别侧重于形态句法，词的形态，和社会语言偏见。这些结果应该作为独立的出版物出现。

This project aims at describing some controversial aspects of Modern Tibetan, which leads us to a reference grammar of the language. Controversial aspects include the typological matters, such as ergativity, voice and subject, and socio-linguistic matters, such as language contact and bilingualism in China and India. To accomplish this purpose of research, a triangle research project was established among Japan, China and India.In each fiscal year, a meeting was held before actual research, in which theoretical matters were discussed by all the researchers. This sort of meeting seemed to be indispensable for us to reach a tentative consensus of theoretical matters, though it was not necessarily always consistent because of very big gaps of the theoretical linguistics in each country.This meeting was followed by field research of each researcher and computerization of his/her data accumulated.After repetition of these works twice, we have found several aspects, which are quite far from the normative Tibetan grammars regulated. Each researcher reached a stage where he/she can describe a reference grammar of Tibetan, respectively fucussed on morphosyntax, morphology of particles, and socio-linguistic biases. These results are supposed to appear as independent publications.