A comparative study of verbs of visual perception and conditional imperatives

Research Project

Project/Area Number	15K21277
Research Category	Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)
Allocation Type	Multi-year Fund
Research Field	Linguistics English linguistics
Research Institution	Fukui Prefectural University
Principal Investigator	MORI Hideki 福井県立大学, 学術教養センター, 准教授 (20534671)
Project Period (FY)	2015-04-01 – 2017-03-31
Project Status	Completed (Fiscal Year 2016)
Budget Amount *help	¥1,300,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,000,000、Indirect Cost: ¥300,000) Fiscal Year 2016: ¥650,000 (Direct Cost: ¥500,000、Indirect Cost: ¥150,000) Fiscal Year 2015: ¥650,000 (Direct Cost: ¥500,000、Indirect Cost: ¥150,000)
Keywords	視覚動詞 / 条件命令文 / 試行性 / モダリティ / アスペクト / 意味拡張
Outline of Final Research Achievements	This study compared and contrasted verbs of visual perception and conditional imperatives from several languages such as Japanese, English, Chinese and Korean. The findings about Japanese and English are: V-te-miru which has a conditional meaning tends to correspond to a single verb in English instead of a complex expression; V-te-miru is one of the modal expressions meaning realis; and the difference in the grammatical category of imperatives between Japanese and English explains why Japanese conditional imperatives must co-occur with the verb of visual perception.