A descriptive study of Eastern Herero as a preparation for comparative research of dialects of the Herero language

我们的项目集中在我们的主要目标，赫雷罗的描述性研究。本研究的相关数据收集在东部赫雷罗语社区的实地考察。描述主要集中在语气系统，时/体/语气系统，以及复句的结构。一些研究成果已作为同行评议的文章发表，另一些则在国际和国内会议上发表。至于国际联合研究的角度，本项目已于2010年开始与卢茨·马顿（伦敦大学）就赫雷罗进行联合研究。此外，为了进一步汇集国际社会对赫雷罗语/班图语的研究，我们于2012年在大坂举办了班图语国际研讨会，并邀请了两位来自英国的班图语语言学家作为嘉宾演讲。这次研讨会的主要目的是讨论我们正在进行的研究，并为未来的国际联合研究确定方向。讲习班不仅对该项目，而且对整个日本班图语言学界都产生了很大的成果，并有助于为进一步开展更广泛的非洲语言学国际联合研究奠定坚实的基础。

Our project has concentrated on our main objective, a descriptive study of Herero. Relevant data for this study were collected during fieldwork in Eastern Herero speech communities. The description has focused primarily on the tone system, tense/aspect/mood system, and the structure of complex sentences. Some of the results of the research have been published as peer-reviewed articles, and others were presented at international and domestic conferences. As for the perspective of international joint research, this project has started joint research with Lutz Marten (University of London) on Herero in 2010. In addition, as further effort to bring together current research on Herero/ Bantu languages from international communities, we organized the International Workshop on Bantu Languages in Osaka in 2012, and invited two Bantu linguists from England as guest speakers. The main objective of this workshop was to discuss our on -going research and to establish a direction for future international joint research. The workshop turned out very fruitful not only for the project but also for the Bantu linguistics community in Japan in general, and helped to build a solid foundation for further development of broader international joint research on African linguistics.