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School of Letters Department of Humanities Human Sciences Course Linguistics & Applied Linguistics Major Major (Credit 2) Intended Year: Intended School: |
Linguistics and Applied Linguistics (Lecture XII)
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Numbering Code: LET-HUM2722J Course Code: 2017 FallTerm intensive Hakozaki Classroom J科目 (日本語, 日本語) |
| Course Overview |
This lecture course is designed to introduce students to the comparative and historical study of Japanese dialects. In the first half, this lecture course focuses on diversity of case marking strategy in contemporary Kyoto dialect, old Kyoto dialect and Toyoma dialect, and in the second half, focuses on the development of case marking in Kyoto dialect. It may be necessary to examine function of case marking in Japanese dialects from a cross-linguistic and typological perspective, which are rich in cross-linguistic and typological diversity. It is difficult to analyze the function of ga-marking and wo-marking because they alternate with the absence of a case marker. However, by considering word order and animacy effects, which are competing methods against case marking with respect to identifying subject and object, we get a fascinating new perspective on the alignment, organization and grammaticalization of case marking in Japanese dialects. In addition, comparing null argument with ga-marked argument, we relate case marking to information structure to provide explanation for the function of case marking in Japanese dialects. |
| Last updated | : 2017/3/4 (13:39) |