| Project/Area Number |
12610554
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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 |
言語学・音声学
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| Research Institution | Nagoya University |
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Principal Investigator |
MACHIDA Ken Nagoya University, Graduate School of Letters, Professor, 文学研究科, 教授 (60190378)
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| Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) |
SAKUMA Jun'ichi Nagoya University Graduate School of Letters Assistant Professor, 文学研究科, 助教授 (60260585)
TAMURA Kenichi Aichi University of Education, Faculty of Education, Assistant Professor, 教育学部, 助教授 (90179896)
YANAGISAWA Tamio Nagoya University, Graduate School of Languages and Cultures, Assistant Professor, 国際言語文化研究科, 助教授 (80220185)
SAKURAI Takeshi Aichi Prefectural University Faculty of Foreign Studies Assistant Professor, 外国語学部, 助教授 (90315870)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2000 – 2002
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| Project Status |
Completed (Fiscal Year 2002)
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| Budget Amount *help |
¥3,600,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,600,000)
Fiscal Year 2002: ¥1,000,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,000,000)
Fiscal Year 2001: ¥1,100,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,100,000)
Fiscal Year 2000: ¥1,500,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,500,000)
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| Keywords | grammatical functions / noun / verb / semantic role / case / tense / language types / word order |
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| Research Abstract |
Every natural language has a morphological and/or syntactic means to denote grammatical functions of the entities and predicates constituting the events expressed by sentences. To develop formal and universal methods of expressions of grammatical functions in any event is thus indispensable for the foundations of linguistic research, the primary aim of which is to clarify the plausible mechanism of the procedures in language expression and understanding. The selected corpus of our research is Caucasian languages, Tungus languages, Uralic languages, Germanic languages and Japanese. As a result of our linguistics analysis of these sufficiently various languages, we have successfully made detailed investigations into how grammatical functions are denoted in natural languages.
The analysis of Caucasian languages provides us with the way incorporating languages denote grammatical functions by way of adding a variety of functional morphemes to predicate stems. A universal method of describing semantic roles of entities in events has been obtained through the analysis of Uralic languages. The results of the studies of the articles in Germanic languages has been precious in that the definiteness expressed by these forms helps us to understand the semantic properties of nouns in sentences. The analysis of Tungus languages and Japanese has given a fundamental information about how each functional morpheme behaves in expressing grammatical functions.
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