Resarch on the formation of the grammar from the viewpoint of spoken French
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07610492
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Research Field |
仏語・仏文学
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| Research Institution | KYOTO UNIVERSITY |
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Principal Investigator |
TOGO Yuji Kyoto University, Faculty of Integrated Human Studies, Associate Professer, 総合人間学部, 助教授 (10135486)
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| Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) |
OHKI Mitsuru Kyoto University, Faculty of Integrated Human Studies, Professor, 総合人間学部, 教授 (60129947)
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| Project Period (FY) |
1995 – 1997
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| Project Status |
Completed (Fiscal Year 1997)
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| Budget Amount *help |
¥2,000,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,000,000)
Fiscal Year 1997: ¥500,000 (Direct Cost: ¥500,000)
Fiscal Year 1996: ¥400,000 (Direct Cost: ¥400,000)
Fiscal Year 1995: ¥1,100,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,100,000)
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| Keywords | French / spoken language / discourse analysis / dislocation / 会話分析 / 談話 / 文法化 |
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| Research Abstract |
We investigated mainly discourse strategies which are at work in discourse establishment and in introduction of new referent with the discourse. One of the caracteristics of natural discourse is "pragmatic transparency", i.e., the principle of one form one function. We focused our attention on the appearence of nous phrases in the discoures. Our finding are the following points. 1)Nous phrases occur very rarely in subject position. This is especially true about indefinite nous phrases. 2)Noun phrases occur most frequently in object position and in dislocated position.
We hypothesize that there is a discoures strategy which stipulates that new discourse referents must be introduced within the discourse in relation with other referents which already exist in the discourse and which serve as fixing point. Thus we understand why nous phrases in subject position are extremely rare : we find no fixing point in subject position. We presume that in object position, it's the argument structure of the verb which serve as fixing mechanism.
Discourse strategies are often thought to be rather lax principles. We think that these lax principles can be tightened through "grammaticalization" to give birth to "hard grammar".
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