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A Research on the Semantic Mechanism on the English present perfect with a Special Respect to the Synchronic and Diachronic Environment of European Present Perfects.

Research Project

Project/Area Number 15520313
Research Category

Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)

Allocation TypeSingle-year Grants
Section一般
Research Field English linguistics
Research InstitutionKyushu Institute of Technology

Principal Investigator

GOTO Mariko  Kyushu Institute of Technology, Faculty of Computer Science and Systems Engineering, Associate Professor, 情報工学部, 助教授 (20189773)

Project Period (FY) 2003 – 2005
Project Status Completed (Fiscal Year 2005)
Budget Amount *help
¥1,900,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,900,000)
Fiscal Year 2005: ¥500,000 (Direct Cost: ¥500,000)
Fiscal Year 2004: ¥700,000 (Direct Cost: ¥700,000)
Fiscal Year 2003: ¥700,000 (Direct Cost: ¥700,000)
KeywordsHAVE-Perfects / Perfect Participle / Tense-Aspect / Present Tense morpheme / Have or Possession / Immediacy / Imperfectivity / Speech-Act Situation / Auxiliary HAVE / the Present Tense morpheme / German Perfekt / the Speech Act / Aspectual Distinction / 時制の指示機能 / 古・中英語の完了形 / 完了形の使用文脈の特徴 / 結果構文 / 欧州諸言語の完了形 / アスペクト / 古・中独語の完了形 / 完了形のHAVE / 過去分詞の意味機能 / Reference Point / Current Relevance / 古英語の完了形 / 完了形の文脈の特徴 / 現在完了形と副詞句 / Temporal Profile
Research Abstract

The central claims of this report are 1) that the English present perfect is in the present tense, 2) that it profiles the speaker's intended present situation denoted by HAVE, elaborated by the participle, and 3) understanding the situation profiled by HAVE requires the recognition of discourse and the contextual factors in the speech act situation.
The present perfect is notorious for the difficult descriptive problems it poses. These problems ultimately have arisen from a failure to properly appreciate the relationship between the tense morpheme and the mechanism of the perfect construction itself. The first cause is the accepted picture that the present perfect describes a past event. One of the effects that leads us to this view is the typological fact that many European present perfect forms are known to express past events. The other is that the English tense has not been given an account satisfactory enough to explicate the nature of the tense morpheme attached to the present perfect. The second fundamental cause is the lack of sufficient awareness of the contextual factors crucially involving with use of the present perfect.
This research argues that the English present perfect can be considered to express a present situation because
(1)the English present perfect has been outside the influence of the semantic change from present to past which occurred in the central Europe and (2)the tense morpheme attached to the construction functions to indicate that the content of the clause holds at the present time identified by the speaker. Second, it argues that once tense, have, the perfect participle and the interaction of these are properly elucidated, the above characterization proves remarkably adequate in accounting for its usage.

Report

(4 results)
  • 2005 Annual Research Report   Final Research Report Summary
  • 2004 Annual Research Report
  • 2003 Annual Research Report
  • Research Products

    (24 results)

All 2006 2005 2004 2003 Other

All Journal Article (16 results) Book (5 results) Publications (3 results)

  • [Journal Article] 「語り」の現在形2006

    • Author(s)
      樋口 万里子
    • Journal Title

      九州工業大学情報工学部紀要(人文・社会科学) 第19号

      Pages: 19-50

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
    • Related Report
      2005 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Journal Article] Narration, Historical Present and the English Present2006

    • Author(s)
      Higuchi, Mariko (The head investigator, Mariko Goto's pen name)
    • Journal Title

      Bulletin of the Faculty of Computer Science and Systems Engineering, Kyushu Institute of Technology No.19

      Pages: 19-50

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
    • Related Report
      2005 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Journal Article] 「語り」の現在形2006

    • Author(s)
      樋口万里子(後藤万里子の学術上ペンネーム)
    • Journal Title

      九州工業大学情報工学部紀要(人文・社会科学) 第19号

      Pages: 1-50

    • Related Report
      2005 Annual Research Report
  • [Journal Article] 英語の時制と現在完了形2005

    • Author(s)
      樋口 万里子
    • Journal Title

      九州工業大学情報工学部紀要(人文・社会科学) 第18号

      Pages: 1-50

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
    • Related Report
      2005 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Journal Article] 認知言語学から見た歴史的現在2005

    • Author(s)
      樋口 万里子
    • Journal Title

      英語青年 第151巻・第9号

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
    • Related Report
      2005 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Journal Article] The English Tense and the Present Perfect2005

    • Author(s)
      Higuchi, Mariko (The head investigator, Mariko Goto's pen name)
    • Journal Title

      Bulletin of the Faculty of Computer Science and Systems Engineering, Kyushu Institute of Technology No.18

      Pages: 1-50

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
    • Related Report
      2005 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Journal Article] A Cognitive Linguistic Explanation on Historical Present2005

    • Author(s)
      Higuchi, Mariko (The head investigator, Mariko Goto's pen name)
    • Journal Title

      The Rising Generation Volume 151,No.9

      Pages: 530-533

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
    • Related Report
      2005 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Journal Article] Does the English Present Perfect Assert a Past Event?2005

    • Author(s)
      HIGUCHI, Mariko Goto(後藤万里子の学術上ペンネーム)
    • Journal Title

      9th International Cognitive Linguistics Conference : Language, Mind and Brain 9号

      Pages: 349-349

    • Related Report
      2005 Annual Research Report
  • [Journal Article] 英語の現在完了形と発話の場2005

    • Author(s)
      樋口万里子(後藤万里子の学術上ペンネーム)
    • Journal Title

      日本英文学会九州支部大会第57大会 57号

      Pages: 7-7

    • Related Report
      2005 Annual Research Report
  • [Journal Article] 認知言語学から見た歴史的現在2005

    • Author(s)
      樋口万里子(後藤万里子の学術上ペンネーム)
    • Journal Title

      英語青年 第151巻・第9号

    • Related Report
      2005 Annual Research Report
  • [Journal Article] 英語の時制と現在完了形2005

    • Author(s)
      樋口万里子(後藤万里子の学術上のペンネーム)
    • Journal Title

      九州工業大学情報工学部紀要(人文・社会科学) 第18号

      Pages: 1-50

    • Related Report
      2004 Annual Research Report
  • [Journal Article] The Semantic Properties of the English Perfect Participle2004

    • Author(s)
      Mariko Higuchi
    • Journal Title

      九州工業大学情報工学部紀要(人文・社会科学) 第17号

      Pages: 9-41

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
    • Related Report
      2005 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Journal Article] The Semantic Properties of the English Perfect Participle2004

    • Author(s)
      Higuchi, Mariko (The head investigator, Mariko Goto's pen name)
    • Journal Title

      Bulletin of the Faculty of Computer Science and Systems Engineering, Kyushu Institute of Technology No.17

      Pages: 9-41

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
    • Related Report
      2005 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Journal Article] The Semantic Properties of the English Perfect Participle2004

    • Author(s)
      Mariko Higuchi
    • Journal Title

      Bulletin of the Faculty of Computer Science and Systems Engineering, Kyusyu Institute f Technology 第17号

      Pages: 9-41

    • Related Report
      2004 Annual Research Report
  • [Journal Article] 現在完了形と現在2003

    • Author(s)
      樋口 万里子
    • Journal Title

      英語青年 149巻3号(6月号)

      Pages: 180-181

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
    • Related Report
      2005 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Journal Article] The English Present Perfect and the English Present Tense2003

    • Author(s)
      Higuchi, Mariko (The head investigator, Mariko Goto's pen name)
    • Journal Title

      The Rising Generation Volume 149,No.3

      Pages: 180-181

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
    • Related Report
      2005 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Book] 認知コミュニケーション論 シリーズ認知言語学入門 第6巻 3,4章(大堀寿夫 編)2006

    • Author(s)
      樋口 万里子
    • Total Pages
      278
    • Publisher
      大修館
    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
    • Related Report
      2005 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Book] 現在完了のからくりと副詞『言葉のからくり』2004

    • Author(s)
      樋口 万里子
    • Total Pages
      867
    • Publisher
      英宝社
    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
    • Related Report
      2005 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Book] Introductory Cognitive Linguistics Series vol.6 Cognitive Communication, Chapters 3(Tense, Aspect and Modality) and 4(Information Structure beyond the Clause)(Toshio Ohori(ed.))2004

    • Author(s)
      Higuchi, Mariko (The head investigator, Mariko Goto's pen name)
    • Publisher
      Taishukanshoten. Tokyo
    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
    • Related Report
      2005 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Book] Kotobano Karakuri (The Mechanism of Language) A Festschrift for Professor Seisaku Kawakami on the Occasion of His Retirement from Osaka University, The Mechanism of the English Present Perfect and Adverbials2004

    • Author(s)
      Higuchi, Mariko (The head investigator, Mariko Goto's pen name)
    • Publisher
      Eihosha. Tokyo
    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
    • Related Report
      2005 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Book] 認知コミュニケーション論 シリーズ認知言語学入門 第6巻 第3,4章 (大堀寿夫編)2004

    • Author(s)
      樋口 万里子(本人ペンネーム)
    • Publisher
      大修館
    • Related Report
      2004 Annual Research Report
  • [Publications] 樋口万里子(後藤万里子の学術上ペンネーム): "現在完了形と現在"英語青年. 149巻3号(6月号). 180-181 (2003)

    • Related Report
      2003 Annual Research Report
  • [Publications] 樋口万里子(後藤万里子の学術上ペンネーム): "The Semantic Function of the English Perfect Participle"九州工業大学情報工学部紀要(人文・社会科学). 第17巻. (2004)

    • Related Report
      2003 Annual Research Report
  • [Publications] 樋口万里子(後藤万里子の学術上ペンネーム): "『言葉のからくり』pp.513-527.「現在完了のからくりと副詞」"英宝社. 867(15) (2004)

    • Related Report
      2003 Annual Research Report

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