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X'-SEMANTICS

Research Project

Project/Area Number 05610377
Research Category

Grant-in-Aid for General Scientific Research (C)

Allocation TypeSingle-year Grants
Research Field 英語・英米文学
Research InstitutionTOHOKU UNIVERSITY

Principal Investigator

NAKAMURA Masaru  Faculty of Arts and Letters, Tohoku University, 文学部, 教授 (20004088)

Project Period (FY) 1993 – 1994
Project Status Completed (Fiscal Year 1994)
Budget Amount *help
¥1,000,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,000,000)
Fiscal Year 1994: ¥500,000 (Direct Cost: ¥500,000)
Fiscal Year 1993: ¥500,000 (Direct Cost: ¥500,000)
KeywordsX'-semantics / lexical semantics / semantic extension rules / semantic primitives / 中間構文 / 結果構文 / 意味論 / 意味構造 / 意味受動規則
Research Abstract

I proposed the new framework of semantics which consists of semantic rules based on X'-schemata which generate basic semantic structures of predicates, especially verbs. These basic semantic structures are transformed by semantic rules into "surface" semantic structures, which are linked to syntactic forms : in the proposed semantic framework, there are two semantic levels, deep semantic structures and surface ones. The former are related to the latter by rules such as predicate-raising, constant-incorporation, semantic conflation, and others. This is one of the crucial departures from the existing models of semantics.
The X'-semantic rules generate basic (deep) semantic structures which account for basic meanings of verbs. However, many verbs have derived meanings as well as basic ones. These derived meaning can be accounted for in this framework as a result of semantic extension caused by semantic rules. As an instance of semantic extension, I examined resultative constructuions in English and argued that resultative constructuions should be analyzed as semantically derived sturctures in terms of semantic conflation.
In X'-semantics, semantic structures are not static but dynamic ; they undergo various kinds of semantic rules. Based on this view of semantic structures, I proposed that middle constructions are derived by the semantic passive rule which applies the semantic structures involving predicates CAUSE and DO.This analysis makes the correct prediction about passive meaning, stativity, and other poroperties of middle constructions.

Report

(3 results)
  • 1994 Annual Research Report   Final Research Report Summary
  • 1993 Annual Research Report
  • Research Products

    (14 results)

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All Publications (14 results)

  • [Publications] 中村 捷: "X'意味論" X'意味論の研究. 1-22 (1995)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
    • Related Report
      1994 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] 中村 捷: "結果構文" X'意味論の研究. 23-53 (1995)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
    • Related Report
      1994 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] 中村 捷: "中間構文" X'意味論. 54-89 (1995)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
    • Related Report
      1994 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] Masaru Nakamura: "Topicalization,Neg-Priposing and Locative Priposing" Current Topics in English and Japanese. 151-178 (1994)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
    • Related Report
      1994 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] Masaru Nakamura: "X'-semantics" A Research on X'-semantics. 1-22 (1995)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
    • Related Report
      1994 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] Masaru Nakamura: "Resultative constructions" A Research on X'-semantics. 23-53 (1995)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
    • Related Report
      1994 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] Masaru Nakamura: "Middle constructions" A Research on X'-semantics. 54-89 (1995)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
    • Related Report
      1994 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] Masaru Nakamura: "Topicalization, Neg-Preposing, and Locative Preposing" Current Topics in English and Japanese. 151-178 (1994)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
    • Related Report
      1994 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] Masaru Nakamura: "Topicalization,Neg-Preposing,and Locative Preposing" Current Topics in English and Japanese. 1. 151-178 (1994)

    • Related Report
      1994 Annual Research Report
  • [Publications] 中村 捷: "X'意味論" X'意味論の研究. 1. 1-22 (1995)

    • Related Report
      1994 Annual Research Report
  • [Publications] 中村 捷: "結果構文" X'意味論の研究. 1. 23-53 (1995)

    • Related Report
      1994 Annual Research Report
  • [Publications] 中村 捷: "中間構文" X'意味論の研究. 1. 53-89 (1995)

    • Related Report
      1994 Annual Research Report
  • [Publications] Masaru Nakamura(編): "Current Topics in English and Japanese" ひつじ書房, 369 (1994)

    • Related Report
      1994 Annual Research Report
  • [Publications] Masaru Nakamura: "The Infernal structure of the Second Object in the Double Object Consfruction" 英語学論考. 9. 57-66 (1993)

    • Related Report
      1993 Annual Research Report

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