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Toward an explanation of the properties of semantically light verbs in terms of a process-oriented theory of grammar

Research Project

Project/Area Number 16K02757
Research Category

Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)

Allocation TypeMulti-year Fund
Section一般
Research Field English linguistics
Research InstitutionTokyo Gakugei University

Principal Investigator

SUZUKI Takeru  東京学芸大学, 教育学部, 教授 (00187741)

Project Period (FY) 2016-04-01 – 2020-03-31
Project Status Completed (Fiscal Year 2019)
Budget Amount *help
¥3,510,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,700,000、Indirect Cost: ¥810,000)
Fiscal Year 2019: ¥1,170,000 (Direct Cost: ¥900,000、Indirect Cost: ¥270,000)
Fiscal Year 2018: ¥1,300,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,000,000、Indirect Cost: ¥300,000)
Fiscal Year 2017: ¥130,000 (Direct Cost: ¥100,000、Indirect Cost: ¥30,000)
Fiscal Year 2016: ¥910,000 (Direct Cost: ¥700,000、Indirect Cost: ¥210,000)
KeywordsSemantically light verbs / Path prepositions / Particles / Satellite-/verb-framed / Lexical Subordination / Process-oriented / Developmental / path preposition / particle / resultative / satellite-/verb-framed / Talmy's typology / developmental / semantically light verb / small clause / bounded/delimited / 習得過程 / 意味的軽動詞 / 小節 / 前置詞句 / 日英語比較
Outline of Final Research Achievements

This research has the following crucial findings. (1) PathPPs appear frequently and without any cooccurring verb at the very early stages of language acquisition and later. As such, PathPPs function as predicates that express change of location. Most of the relevant utterances are requests to move something and thus are implicitly causative. Verbs appear later than PathPPs. The first verbs that appear with PathPPs are semantically light verbs such as put, take, turn, and so on. They do not directly contribute to the meaning of change of location. The next verbs that appear are manner verbs such as those in pull it away and throw it down. The third verbs are need, want and the like. (2) Most of the first PathP that appear are telic (in, on, off, etc.). Atelic ones such as around and along are infrequent and, if any, are adverbial modifiers of verbs, not predicates.

Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements

本研究は、まず移動に関するV+DP+Prt/PathPP の構文に関して、CHILDESのデータに基づいて、一般性が高い獲得順序を明らかにした。類型論的にも、言語におけるPathPの有無・PathPの獲得順序からLexical Subordination (Levin and Rapoport 1988)とsatellite-framing of Path (Talmy 1985他) が説明される可能性を示した。また、V-DP-PrtとV-Prt-DP (句動詞)は似ていることから学校で一緒に教えられることがあるが、後者は、獲得初期にはほとんど現れないなど、重要な違いを明らかにした。

Report

(5 results)
  • 2019 Annual Research Report   Final Research Report ( PDF )
  • 2018 Research-status Report
  • 2017 Research-status Report
  • 2016 Research-status Report
  • Research Products

    (5 results)

All 2019 2018 2017 2016

All Journal Article (3 results) (of which Peer Reviewed: 3 results,  Acknowledgement Compliant: 1 results) Presentation (2 results) (of which Int'l Joint Research: 1 results,  Invited: 2 results)

  • [Journal Article] Reinhart, Tanya (2016) Concepts, Syntax and Their Interface: The Theta System2019

    • Author(s)
      Takeru Suzuki
    • Journal Title

      English Linguistics

      Volume: Vol 36 No 1 Pages: 93-102

    • Related Report
      2019 Annual Research Report
    • Peer Reviewed
  • [Journal Article] 英語の経路前置詞句の周辺2018

    • Author(s)
      鈴木 猛
    • Journal Title

      日本英文学会第90回大会Proceedings(付2017年度支部大会Proceedings)

      Volume: 90 Pages: 213-214

    • Related Report
      2018 Research-status Report
    • Peer Reviewed
  • [Journal Article] Root PathPP Small Clauses in English: Developmental Origins of Path-Related Constructions2017

    • Author(s)
      Takeru Suzuki
    • Journal Title

      JELS

      Volume: 34 Pages: 179-185

    • NAID

      40021205608

    • Related Report
      2016 Research-status Report
    • Peer Reviewed / Acknowledgement Compliant
  • [Presentation] 英語の経路前置詞句とその周辺2017

    • Author(s)
      鈴木 猛
    • Organizer
      日本英文学会中部支部第69回大会
    • Related Report
      2017 Research-status Report
    • Invited
  • [Presentation] Root PathPP Small Clauses in English: Developmental Origins of Path-Related Constructions2016

    • Author(s)
      Takeru Suzuki
    • Organizer
      日本英語学会
    • Place of Presentation
      金沢大学(石川県金沢市)
    • Year and Date
      2016-11-13
    • Related Report
      2016 Research-status Report
    • Int'l Joint Research / Invited

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Published: 2016-04-21   Modified: 2021-02-19  

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