| Project/Area Number |
14510544
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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 |
英語・英米文学
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| Research Institution | Kobe University (2004)
Meiji Gakuin University (2002-2003) |
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Principal Investigator |
MATSUMOTO Yo Kobe University, Faculty of Letters, Professor, 文学部, 教授 (40245303)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2002 – 2004
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| Project Status |
Completed (Fiscal Year 2004)
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| Budget Amount *help |
¥1,700,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,700,000)
Fiscal Year 2004: ¥500,000 (Direct Cost: ¥500,000)
Fiscal Year 2003: ¥500,000 (Direct Cost: ¥500,000)
Fiscal Year 2002: ¥700,000 (Direct Cost: ¥700,000)
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| Keywords | Semantic Typology / Verbs of Motion / Path expressions / Cognitive Semantics / Corpus / Lexicalization / Caused Motion / Visual Motion / 視覚表現 / 虚構移動 / 類型論 / 意味論 / 認知言語学 / 前置詞 / 日英語 |
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| Research Abstract |
The results of this project can be divided into two categories : database and publications.
The former includes 1)"frog stories" narrated by 23 native speakers of Japanese, and 2)A Bibliography of Linguistic Expressions for Motion Events. This bibliography was first published as 2002b (see below), and it has been updated and is now available at http://www.lit.kobe-u.ac.jp/yomatsum/motionbiblio.html.
Publications include papers on 1)caused motion construction (2002a), 2)typology of motion events (2003a, b), and 3) visual motion (2004). My papers on Typology of motion events review previous typologies, their different interpretations and their problems, and propose an alternative in which languages are divided into different types depending on whether Path of motion is encoded in the head of VP (Head-framed languages) or not (Nonhead-framed languages). My paper on visual motion describes this phenomenon in Japanese in details. An integration of the findings in this paper and the typology of motion events is attempted in an unpublished paper presented at the 2004 Conference of the English linguistics Society of Japan. It is argued that languages tend to take a Nonhead-framed pattern in the following order. Motion <Caused Motion <Visual Motion. All of these works are partially based on the examination of corpus data (Cobuild Corpus and Mainichi-shinbun data).
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