日本語とベンガル語の対照文法研究: A Study on the Contrastive Grammar of Japanese and Bengali (Bengali) (Japanese Edition)

This descriptive contrastive grammar systematically analyzes Japanese and Bengali (Bengali)—two typologically distinct languages belonging to the Japonic and Indo‑Aryan families. The study is organized into ten parts. Part 1 establishes the theoretical and methodological foundations of contrastive linguistics and corpus analysis. Part 2 compares phonology, phonetics, and writing systems, focusing on mora‑timing vs. syllable‑timing, pitch accent vs. stress accent, and the Japanese mixed script vs. the Bangla abugida. Part 3 examines the system of parts of speech, including nouns, verbs, adjectives, classifiers, and interjections. Part 4 analyzes word formation (derivation, compounding, and borrowing) and inflectional morphology, with attention to verb and adjective conjugation. Part 5 describes basic syntax: word order, sentence types, constituents, case and constructions, and complex sentences. Part 6 investigates subordinate clauses—relative, temporal, conditional, purposive, complement, and manner clauses. Part 7 systematically compares grammatical categories: person, number, gender, tense, aspect, voice, modality, negation, and interrogation. Part 8 explores functional categories such as deixis, toritate (focusing/emphatic marking), comparison, collocation, grammatical relations, and agreement. Part 9 contrasts honorifics and politeness: Japanese three‑layer honorifics vs. Bangla pronoun‑based honorifics. Part 10 synthesizes typological similarities and differences, discusses implications for language education and translation, and identifies directions for future research. This work provides a comprehensive descriptive resource for learners, teachers, and researchers of both languages. (The book is written in Japanese.)