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Functions of Formal Features and Morphological Case in Spell-Out and Linearization of Symmetric Bare Phrase Structure

Research Project

Project/Area Number 16K02779
Research Category

Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)

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

Principal Investigator

NARITA Hiroki  東海大学, 文学部, 講師 (60609767)

Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) 木村 博子  千葉工業大学, 工学部, 助教 (40637633)
Project Period (FY) 2016-04-01 – 2020-03-31
Project Status Completed (Fiscal Year 2019)
Budget Amount *help
¥4,290,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,300,000、Indirect Cost: ¥990,000)
Fiscal Year 2018: ¥1,690,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,300,000、Indirect Cost: ¥390,000)
Fiscal Year 2017: ¥1,690,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,300,000、Indirect Cost: ¥390,000)
Fiscal Year 2016: ¥910,000 (Direct Cost: ¥700,000、Indirect Cost: ¥210,000)
Keywords統語論・統辞法/syntax / 生成文法/generative grammar / 併合/Merge / 対称性/symmetry / 省略/ellipsis / 投射/projection / 形式素性/formal features / 移動/movement / syntax/統語論/統辞法 / symmetry principle/対称性原理 / Merge-generability / 併合生成可能性 / Ellipsis/省略 / 省略における構造的相同性 / fragment answers/短縮応答 / idiom/イディオム / 句構造の対称性 / 省略 / 削除 / 形態格 / 分散形態論 / 短縮応答 / 複合語形成 / 極小主義プログラム / 句構造の内心性 / 併合 / 対称性原理 / 線形化 / 素性均衡 / 一致素性 / 音声化 / 統辞法・統語論 / 形態素性 / 素句構造
Outline of Final Research Achievements

We constructed a strictly symmetric theory of bare phrase structure, adhering to Merge as an unordered set-formation operation and eradicating the still dominant hypothesis of universal projection. We formulated the Symmetry Principle as a unifying hypothesis that derives the symmetry of Merge, various instances of feature-equilibrium typically appearing at Transfer domains, and the effect of criterial freezing. Further, we published our work on a brain-imaging study on the Merge-generability of linguistic dependencies, morphological-structural constraints on ellipsis, phase-by-phase cyclic linearization, and philosophical foundations of generative grammar.

Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements

人間言語の根底に潜む対称構造の内実を究明した。世界に数万と存在する自然言語は語順や語彙の発音等々、その音声形態的側面について多大な多様性・非対称性を示すが、本研究課題の研究成果によれば、このような表層上の言語間差異の背後には、普遍的・統一的な対称構造が潜んでいる。自然界が作り出す有機物・無機物のデザインには対称構造が多く見られることなどから考えると、言語のような心的対象の背後にもやはり対称構造が潜んでいるという知見は、本研究課題が提案する対称性原理が、世界の物理的側面と心的側面の両方に通底する統合的原理である可能性を強く示唆するものであり、言語研究の学際的意義を一層際立たせるものである。

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

(29 results)

All 2021 2020 2019 2018 2017 2016 Other

All Journal Article (14 results) (of which Peer Reviewed: 12 results,  Open Access: 3 results,  Acknowledgement Compliant: 2 results) Presentation (11 results) (of which Int'l Joint Research: 2 results,  Invited: 7 results) Book (2 results) Remarks (2 results)

  • [Journal Article] Compound Wh-questions and Fragment Answers in Japanese: Implications for the Nature of Ellipsis2020

    • Author(s)
      Hiroko Kimura and Hiroki Narita
    • Journal Title

      Linguistic Inquiry

      Volume: 未定 Issue: 1 Pages: 195-209

    • DOI

      10.1162/ling_a_00362

    • Related Report
      2019 Annual Research Report
    • Peer Reviewed
  • [Journal Article] Merge-Generability as the Key Concept of Human Language: Evidence From Neuroscience2019

    • Author(s)
      Tanaka Kyohei、Nakamura Isso、Ohta Shinri、Fukui Naoki、Zushi Mihoko、Narita Hiroki、Sakai Kuniyoshi L.
    • Journal Title

      Frontiers in Psychology

      Volume: 10 Pages: 1-16

    • DOI

      10.3389/fpsyg.2019.02673

    • Related Report
      2019 Annual Research Report
    • Peer Reviewed / Open Access
  • [Journal Article] Neo-Cartesianism in Generative Grammar2019

    • Author(s)
      Narita, Hiroki
    • Journal Title

      ICU Working Papers in Linguistics (ICUWPL) Vol. 7: Festschrift for Professor Tomoyuki Yoshida on his 60th Birthday

      Volume: 7 Pages: 29-50

    • NAID

      120006646454

    • Related Report
      2019 Annual Research Report
    • Open Access
  • [Journal Article] 統語-音韻インターフェイスに必要な情報の表示をめぐって2019

    • Author(s)
      漆原朗子・木村博子・成田広樹・渡辺明・多田浩章
    • Journal Title

      JELS 37

      Volume: 37 Pages: 160-163

    • Related Report
      2019 Annual Research Report
    • Open Access
  • [Journal Article] Review: Konietzko’s (2016) Bare Argument Ellipsis and Focus2019

    • Author(s)
      Hiroko Kimura
    • Journal Title

      Studies in English Literature

      Volume: 60 Pages: 115-122

    • Related Report
      2018 Research-status Report
    • Peer Reviewed
  • [Journal Article] A Non-Movement Analysis of Why-Stripping2018

    • Author(s)
      Hiroko Kimura
    • Journal Title

      MIT Working Papers in Linguistics(Proceedings of Workshop on Altaic Formal Linguistics 13)

      Volume: 88 Pages: 363-370

    • Related Report
      2018 Research-status Report
    • Peer Reviewed
  • [Journal Article] Cyclic Spell-Out as a Locus of Exocentric Linearization2018

    • Author(s)
      Hiroki Narita
    • Journal Title

      Proceedings of the Forty-Second Annual Meeting of The Kansai Linguistic Society (KLS 38)

      Volume: 38 Pages: 193-204

    • Related Report
      2018 Research-status Report
    • Peer Reviewed
  • [Journal Article] Review of The Minimalist Program: The Nature and Plausibility of Chomsky's Biolinguistics by Fahad Rashed Al-Mutairi, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2014.2018

    • Author(s)
      Hiroki Narita
    • Journal Title

      English Linguistics

      Volume: 35 Pages: 193-203

    • Related Report
      2018 Research-status Report
    • Peer Reviewed
  • [Journal Article] In-Situ Properties of Fragment Answers: Evidence from Japanese2017

    • Author(s)
      Kimura, HIroko, and Hiroki Narita
    • Journal Title

      Proceedings of GLOW in Asia XI, Volume I, ed. by Michael Yoshitaka Erlewine

      Volume: MITWPL 84 Pages: 141-155

    • Related Report
      2017 Research-status Report
    • Peer Reviewed
  • [Journal Article] Merge and (A)symmetry2017

    • Author(s)
      Fukui, Naoki, and Hiroki Narita
    • Journal Title

      Naoki Fukui, ed., Merge in the Mind-Brain. London: Routledge

      Volume: - Pages: 35-74

    • Related Report
      2016 Research-status Report
    • Peer Reviewed
  • [Journal Article] Generalized Search and Cyclic Derivation by Phase: A Preliminary Study2017

    • Author(s)
      Kato, Takaomi, Masakazu Kuno, Hiroki Narita, Mihoko Zushi, and Naoki Fukui
    • Journal Title

      Naoki Fukui, ed., Merge in the Mind-Brain. London: Routledge

      Volume: - Pages: 75-93

    • Related Report
      2016 Research-status Report
    • Peer Reviewed
  • [Journal Article] Merge, Labeling, and Projection2017

    • Author(s)
      Fukui, Naoki, and Hiroki Narita
    • Journal Title

      Naoki Fukui, ed., Merge in the Mind-Brain. London: Routledge

      Volume: - Pages: 94-118

    • Related Report
      2016 Research-status Report
    • Peer Reviewed
  • [Journal Article] 0-Search and 0-Merge2017

    • Author(s)
      Narita, Hiroki, Hironobu Kasai, Takaomi Kato, Mihoko Zushi, and Naoki Fukui
    • Journal Title

      Naoki Fukui, ed., Merge in the Mind-Brain. London: Routledge

      Volume: - Pages: 127-154

    • Related Report
      2016 Research-status Report
    • Peer Reviewed / Acknowledgement Compliant
  • [Journal Article] Focus-inclusive Deletion in Fragment Answers: Evidence from Japanese2016

    • Author(s)
      Kimura, Hiroko, and Hiroki Narita
    • Journal Title

      Proceedings of the 18th Seoul International Conference on Generative Grammar (SICOGG 18), ed. by Tae Sik Kim and Seungwan Ha

      Volume: - Pages: 225-245

    • Related Report
      2016 Research-status Report
    • Peer Reviewed / Acknowledgement Compliant
  • [Presentation] 削除が意味解釈に及ぼす影響について2019

    • Author(s)
      木村博子・成田広樹
    • Organizer
      日本英語学会第37回大会シンポジウム「統語-音韻インターフェイスに必要な情報の表示をめぐって」. 関西学院大学. 2019年11月9日
    • Related Report
      2019 Annual Research Report
  • [Presentation] 複合語を伴うWh疑問文と短縮応答について2018

    • Author(s)
      成田広樹・木村博子
    • Organizer
      日本英語学会第36回大会シンポジウム「言語理論における形態論の「分散」をめぐる諸問題」. 横浜国立大学. 2018年11月25日.
    • Related Report
      2018 Research-status Report
  • [Presentation] ラベルはどこにあるのか2018

    • Author(s)
      成田広樹
    • Organizer
      慶應言語学コロキアム(慶應義塾大学)
    • Related Report
      2017 Research-status Report
    • Invited
  • [Presentation] Cyclic Spell-Out as a Locus of Exocentric Linearization2017

    • Author(s)
      成田広樹
    • Organizer
      関西言語学会第42回大会(京都大学)
    • Related Report
      2017 Research-status Report
    • Invited
  • [Presentation] ヒトがつくることば、ことばがつくるヒト2017

    • Author(s)
      成田広樹
    • Organizer
      名古屋哲学フォーラム 2017秋:言語・進化・生物:生成文法の哲学をつくる(南山大学)
    • Related Report
      2017 Research-status Report
    • Invited
  • [Presentation] ヒトがつくることば、ことばがつくるヒト2017

    • Author(s)
      成田広樹
    • Organizer
      静岡大学理論言語学セミナー(静岡大学)
    • Related Report
      2017 Research-status Report
    • Invited
  • [Presentation] Non-Movement Properties and Structural Isomorphism of Fragment Answers in Japanese2017

    • Author(s)
      Kimura, Hiroko, and Hiroki Narita
    • Organizer
      GLOW in Asia 2017
    • Place of Presentation
      National University of Singapore, Singapore
    • Related Report
      2016 Research-status Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] ヒトは自らの問いにどこまで答えることができるのか:『チョムスキー 言語の科学:ことば・心・人間本性』を巡って2016

    • Author(s)
      成田広樹
    • Organizer
      慶應言語学コロキアム
    • Place of Presentation
      慶應義塾大学
    • Year and Date
      2016-09-10
    • Related Report
      2016 Research-status Report
    • Invited
  • [Presentation] Focus-Inclusive Deletion in Fragment Answers: Evidence from Japanese2016

    • Author(s)
      Kimura, Hiroko, and Hiroki Narita
    • Organizer
      18th Seoul International Conference on Generative Grammar (SICOGG 18)
    • Place of Presentation
      Sogang University, Seoul
    • Related Report
      2016 Research-status Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] 原始演算とインターフェイス条件をめぐる考察2016

    • Author(s)
      成田広樹・葛西宏信・加藤孝臣・辻子美保子・福井直樹
    • Organizer
      日本英文学会第88回大会シンポジア第十一部門「統辞法の原始演算とインターフェイス」
    • Place of Presentation
      京都大学
    • Related Report
      2016 Research-status Report
    • Invited
  • [Presentation] 原探索と原併合2016

    • Author(s)
      加藤孝臣・葛西宏信・成田広樹・辻子美保子・福井直樹
    • Organizer
      日本英文学会第88回大会シンポジア第十一部門「統辞法の原始演算とインターフェイス」
    • Place of Presentation
      京都大学
    • Related Report
      2016 Research-status Report
    • Invited
  • [Book] Symmetry-driven Syntax: Merge, Minimality, and Equilibria(仮題)2021

    • Author(s)
      Narita, Hiroki, and Naoki Fukui
    • Publisher
      Routledge
    • Related Report
      2019 Annual Research Report
  • [Book] チョムスキー 言語の科学―ことば・心・人間本性 (Chomsky, Noam, 2012. The Science of Language: An Interview with James McGilvray. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. の翻訳)2016

    • Author(s)
      ノーム・チョムスキー(著)・成田広樹(訳)
    • Publisher
      岩波書店
    • Related Report
      2016 Research-status Report
  • [Remarks] Hiroki Narita: Naturally Mind/Brain

    • URL

      http://hirokinarita.org/

    • Related Report
      2019 Annual Research Report
  • [Remarks] naturally mind/brain

    • URL

      http://hirokinarita.org/

    • Related Report
      2016 Research-status Report

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