A Study of Sentence Structures and Semantic and Discorse Interface: On Rhetorical Question and the Related WH-Constructions
Project/Area Number |
15K02607
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Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
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Allocation Type | Multi-year Fund |
Section | 一般 |
Research Field |
English linguistics
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Research Institution | Nagasaki University |
Principal Investigator |
INADA Toshiaki 長崎大学, 言語教育研究センター, 教授 (80108258)
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Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) |
稲田 俊一郎 明治薬科大学, 薬学部, 講師 (10725386)
今西 典子 文京学院大学, 外国語研究科, 非常勤講師 (70111739)
西岡 宣明 九州大学, 人文科学研究院, 教授 (80198431)
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Project Period (FY) |
2015-04-01 – 2018-03-31
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Project Status |
Completed (Fiscal Year 2017)
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Budget Amount *help |
¥3,640,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,800,000、Indirect Cost: ¥840,000)
Fiscal Year 2017: ¥780,000 (Direct Cost: ¥600,000、Indirect Cost: ¥180,000)
Fiscal Year 2016: ¥1,300,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,000,000、Indirect Cost: ¥300,000)
Fiscal Year 2015: ¥1,560,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,200,000、Indirect Cost: ¥360,000)
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Keywords | 修辞疑問文 / インターフェイス / 多重WH疑問文 / 言語多様性 / 修辞疑問 / 多重WH疑問文 / WH-構文 / インターフェイス制約 / 否定疑問 / 言語機能 |
Outline of Final Research Achievements |
To investigate the uniformity and variability of language, we examined the syntactic, semantic and discourse properties of Rhetorical Questions (RQ) and related WH-constuctions and clarified the following points. (1) There are significant differences between Japanese and English RQs, and the former allows more options of RQ and the related constructions. (2) The differences of Japanese RQ (JRQ) and English RQ (ERQ) can be reduced to the syntactic properties of the two language types: only the former type has the morph-syntactic marking and/or functional projections to meet the requirements of illocutinary forces including RQ and EQ (Echo-Question).(3) The differences of RQ interpretation in "multiple WH-questions" and "island effects" in JRQ and ERQ can be explained by the above properties and the interface conditions.(4) Cross-linguistic observations of RQs in other languages (Korean, Chinese, German, French, etc.) also indicates that the above approach is tenable.
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Report
(4 results)
Research Products
(19 results)
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[Journal Article] Acquisition of Recursive Possessives and Locatives within DPs in Japanese2017
Author(s)
INADA, Shunichirou, TERUNUMA, Akiko, ISOBE, Miwa, NAKAJIMA, Motoki, OKABE, Reiko, INOKUMA, Sakumi
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Journal Title
Proceedings of the 41st Annual Boston Yniversity Conference of Language Development, M. LaMendola and J. Scott (eds.) Cascadill Press, MA.
Volume: 1
Pages: 626-636
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Peer Reviewed
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[Presentation] Relative Clauses in Child Language2016
Author(s)
Motoki Nakajima, Miwa Isobe, Reiko Okabe, Akiko Terunuma, Sakumi Inokuma, Shunichiro Inada and Terue Nakato
Organizer
4th Bucharest Colloquium of Language Acquisition, Center for the Studies of Language Development and Linguistic Communication, University of Bucharest
Place of Presentation
University of Bucharest, Bucharest, Romania
Year and Date
2016-11-30
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Int'l Joint Research
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