| Project/Area Number |
15202009
|
|---|
| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (A)
|
| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
|---|
| Section | 一般 |
|---|
| Research Field |
Linguistics
|
|---|
| Research Institution | Kobe Shoin Women's University |
|---|
Principal Investigator |
GUNJI Takao Kobe Shoin Women's University, Faculty of Letters, Professor, 文学部, 教授 (10158892)
|
|---|
| Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) |
ARITA Setsuko Osaka Shoin Women's University, Faculty of Liberal Arts, Professor, 学芸学部, 教授 (70263994)
IMANI Ikumi Nagoya Gakuin University, Faculty of Foreign Studies, Professor, 外国語学部, 教授 (20213233)
TAKUBO Yukinori Kyoto University, Graduate School of Letters, Professor, 大学院文学研究科, 教授 (10154957)
MATSUI Michinao Kobe Shoin Women's University, Faculty of Letters, Associate Professor, 文学部, 准教授 (00273714)
MITO Hiroshi Osaka University, Graduate School of Language and Culture, Associate Professor, 大学院言語文化研究科, 准教授 (60181939)
|
|---|
| Project Period (FY) |
2003 – 2006
|
| Project Status |
Completed (Fiscal Year 2006)
|
| Budget Amount *help |
¥47,970,000 (Direct Cost: ¥36,900,000、Indirect Cost: ¥11,070,000)
Fiscal Year 2006: ¥13,130,000 (Direct Cost: ¥10,100,000、Indirect Cost: ¥3,030,000)
Fiscal Year 2005: ¥12,480,000 (Direct Cost: ¥9,600,000、Indirect Cost: ¥2,880,000)
Fiscal Year 2004: ¥11,310,000 (Direct Cost: ¥8,700,000、Indirect Cost: ¥2,610,000)
Fiscal Year 2003: ¥11,050,000 (Direct Cost: ¥8,500,000、Indirect Cost: ¥2,550,000)
|
|---|
| Keywords | inference / everyday language / logical form / quantificational expression / conditional / modal expression / International Researcher Exchange / United States of America : Korea |
|---|
| Research Abstract |
This research is aimed at thoroughly investigating differences and similarity in linguistic expressions for inference among Japanese, European language such as English, and typologically similar languages like Korean, thereby shedding a new light on the problem of language universality and particularity. In particular, we attempted to compensate the issues that have been ignored by focusing on formal aspects of Japanese, on one hand, and such informal aspects as context-dependency in European languages, on the other. Although there are some issues left unresolved, we believe we have achieved most of what we had aimed at.
The following are brief summaries of the results :
1. After around 2005, we have presented the results in international conferences. For example, Takubo and Sakahara made presentations at an international symposium "Philosophical Foundations of Cognitive Linguistics" at the University of Tokyo. Takubo also presented at the International Cognitive Linguistics Society in Korea and at Japanese/Korean Linguistics Society in Wisconsin, USA.
2. After around 2006, we have presented the results in published papers. For example, Mito will publish a paper on the semantics of Japanese noun phrases in the framework of event semantics. Takubo's presentations in the above conference at Wisconsin was published in the proceedings published in March, 2007.
We held a closing workshop with almost all the investigators and foreign research collaborators at Awaji Yumebutai International Conference Center near the end of February and summarized our research for the past four years. Although the future plan is not fixed yet, we all agreed to keep close contact in research.
|
