Contrastive Lexical Studies of Amami Islands Dialect and South Kyushu Dialect

本研究旨在通过对奄美群岛方言和南九州方言的词汇对比研究，厘清日本方言的两大分类——琉球方言和本州方言之间的异同。以前的研究只是将琉球方言的“mi：”简单地应用于韩道方言的“me”（=眼睛）。本研究提取了包括复合词和习语在内的所有眼部表情，并对其进行了检验。研究发现，“我”在韩道方言中的意义是抽象的；另一方面，琉球方言的“mi：”经常保留眼睛作为身体部位的功能。韩岛方言有一些源自中心意思的比喻短语，如“看星星”、“眼神愤怒”、“生气”、“看起来很高兴”、“不注意”等。然而，琉球方言中没有这样的短语。剩下的眼睛功能是“mi:turarjuN”（失去眼睛→眼花缭乱）和“mi:？“将要垂下眼睛→注意”。我们可以在韩岛方言的me和琉球方言的mi之间找到比我们想象的更多的差异。这种对比研究将进一步要求覆盖身体的其他部位。

The aim of this research is to clarify similarities and differences between Ryukyu dialect and Hondo (=the mainland) dialect, which are the two main classifications of Japanese dialects, through contrastive lexical studies of Amami Islands dialect and South Kyushu dialect.Previous studies have simply applied Ryukyu dialect's 'mi:' to Hondo dialect's 'me' (=eye). This research extracted all expressions of eye including compound words and idioms, and examined them.It was found that the meaning of 'me' is abstract in Hondo dialect ; on the other hand Ryukyu dialect's 'mi:' often keeps the function of eyes as body parts. Hondo dialect has figurative phrases which are derived from central meaning, such as "see stars", "have an angry look in one's eyes", "be mad at", look happy, "pay no attention to", etc. Ryukyu dialect, however, has no such phrases. There remains eye function as "mi:turarjuN" (lose eyes → be dazzied) and "mi:?utigikunajuN" (be going to drop eyes → pay attention to".We could find much more differences between Hondo dialect's 'me' and Ryukyu dialect's 'mi:' than we had supposed. Such contrastive studies will be further required covering other parts of body.