THE PHILOLOGICAL ANALYSIS OF DIALECTAL DOCUMENTS FOR THE HISTORICAL STUDY OF THE JAPANESE LANGUAGE

我们项目的主要目标是收集和分析代表当地方言的历史文献。我们相信，对这些方言文献的语言学研究将为日语的历史研究提供一个新的视角，迄今为止，日语的研究主要是通过中心方言的文献进行的，即代表每个时代政治和文化中心的方言。为此，我们收集了大量的历史文献(1)描述当地方言和(2)包含作者方言特征。我们在1998年题为《Yedo时期一些方言的语言学研究（科学研究资助报告）》的报告中发表了部分材料。

The main object of our project has been to collect and analyze historical documents representing local dialects. We believe that the philological study of these dialectal documets will give a new perspective to the historicalstudy of the japanese language, which has so far been investigated mainly through documents of central dialects, i.e.dialects representing the speech of the political and cultural center of each era.For this purpose we have collected a substantial amount of historical documentes (1) which describe local dialects and (2) which contain dialectal characteristics of authors. We have published parts of the material in the 1998 report entitled The philological study of some dialects in the Yedo period (Report for the grant in aid for scientific reserch)