Tokyo University Linguistic Papers Vol. 22 : Abstracts

UWANO Zendō, "Accents of Compound Verbs in the Ibuki-jima Dialect of Japanese"

In the present paper the result of a follow-up research on the accentuation of the Ibuki-jima dialect (Kannonji-shi, Kagawa Prefecture) since the author's report on the "Accent Rules of Compound Verbs in the Ibuki-jima Dialect" (TULiP 19: 2000) is presented. The accent of about 2,600 items are given here, whereby the following accentuation rules, first formulated in the above article, are reconfirmed.

1. When the first member is a 1- or 2-mora verb, whose basic pattern is rising (L), the pattern of the compound is level (H).
2. When the first member is a 2- or 3 mora verb, whose basic pattern is falling (F), the pattern of the compound is rising (L).
3. Elsewhere, the pattern of the first member (H, F or L) becomes the pattern of the compound (H, F or L, respectively).

In addition, merits and shortcomings of the author's "direct input method" in the fieldwork are discussed (instead of marking in the questionnaire by hand, the responses are directly entered in the PC).

JIN Namtaek, "A Study on the Keirin-Bunyaku"

The present study introduces the Keirin-Bunyaku 雞林文譯 by KATSURAKAWA Hoshū 桂川甫周 and analyses its Kana transcription of Korean characters. The book was written in 1798, with a preface by NARISHIMA Motonao, and contains Korean letters and their Kana transcriptions, together with the Goon-Honyaku 語音翻譯 and its Kana transcription. The following is the result of the analysis:

1. In the Korean alphabet character table, the area vowel is transcribed with the o-row letters of the Kana syllabary, when the syllable initial consonant is ᄂ,ᄃ,ᄅ,ᄒ or ᄏ, while it is transcribed with the a-row letters when the syllable begins with one of the other consonants. But the three consonants ᄌ,ᄉ,ᄀ followed by the area vowel are transcribed with the u-row letters.
2. Monophthongization of back diphthongs has not taken place.
3. The vowel ᅴ is transcribed with the e-row letters.
4. The consonant ᄇ is transcribed with the b-column letters, while the consonalt ᄑ is transcribed with the h-column letters.
5. The ᄌ palatalization and the change of ᄉ have not yet taken place.
6. The syllable final consonants of Korean are exactly represented in the Kana transcription except for the nasal ᇰ.

LEE Munsuk, "The Accent System of the Chonju Dialect of Korean"

In this paper the accentual system of the Chonju dialect of Korean, which has generally been regarded as an accentless system, is analysed on the basis of the author's fieldwork. According to the author's research, disyllabic words have three accentual patterns, although they frequently show fluctuation. Also, non-connective and connective forms show different pitch patterns; the latter are characterized by a phrase-final high pitch. Words of more than two syllables have two patterns, while monosyllabic words have no accentual distinction. Such a system is defined as the Incomplete 3-Pattern Accent System.

UTSUMI Atsuko, "The Tense and Aspect System in the Bantik Language"

The present paper discusses the tense and aspect system of the Bantik language, one of the Austronesian languages spoken in North Sulawesi, Indonesia. Bantik verbs obligatorily take one of the two tense forms: the non-past form and the past form, which are expressed by prefixes. There are also two aspectual particles: te, which expresses completeive aspect, and ken, which expresses continuative aspect, either of them is placed right after the verb. As a result, verbs can take one of the two simple tense forms, or one of the four tense-aspect combinations: non-past + completive, non-past continuative, past + completive, or past + continuative. Adjectives, on the other hand, do not have tense differences but can take aspectual particles te or ken. Verbs which imply ability and habit apparently behave like adjectives, since they do not seem to have tense contrast. However, a deeper analysis shows that they also have a non-past and past tense contrast.

UMETANI Hiroyuki, "The Second Person Possessive Particles in Mongolian"

This paper aims to describe the pragmatic difference between the two second person possessive particles čin' and tan' as follows: When tan' is used, the speaker's courteous, respectful attitude is expressed toward either the hearer or the referent, while no such attitude is implied when čin' is used. The objects to which such an attitude expressed by tan' is directed depend on the referent of the noun phrase preceding tan': When the noun phrase immediately preceding tan' refers to non-humans, the attitude is directed toward the hearer. On the other hand, it is directed toward the referent of the noun phrase preceding tan' when it refers to humans.

SASAHARA Ken, "Reflexive Verbs and Voice in Upper Sorbian"

The present paper attempts to describe the voice system of Upper Sorbian on the basis of the meaning and behavior of reflexive verbs. It is shown that a new classification is possible when the logical sequence of events is considered.

MIMURA Tatsuyuki, "Stress Accent in Danish"

The aim of this paper is to provide a comprehensive analysis of the stress accent in Danish and to propose its interpretation from renewed angles.

Like all other Germanic languages, Danish has lexical word-stress. Among various degrees of stresses in the purely phonetic sense, it is only the primary one that performs the phonologically relevant function, and its location within a given domain of accent is the only distinctive feature. The primary stress falls on any of the last three syllables; thus, in terms of the placement of the primary stress, Danish monomorphemic words have only three possibiliies of accentual patterns, regardless of the number of syllables of the word: stress accent in Danish exhibits the ternary (three-pattern) accent system.

In relation to the phonological interpretation of the stress in monomorphemic words, particular attention is also paid to morphological information which governs the placement of the accent kernel within a word of morphologically complex structure.

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