Clausal Complementation in Japanese

• Project/Area Number: 16K16823
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Research Field: Linguistics
• Research Institution: Ritsumeikan University
• Principal Investigator: Shimamura Koji 立命館大学, スポーツ健康科学部, 講師 (00755689)
• Project Period (FY): 2016-04-01 – 2019-03-31
• Project Status: Completed (Fiscal Year 2018)
• Budget Amount: ¥1,950,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,500,000、Indirect Cost: ¥450,000); Fiscal Year 2017: ¥780,000 (Direct Cost: ¥600,000、Indirect Cost: ¥180,000); Fiscal Year 2016: ¥1,170,000 (Direct Cost: ¥900,000、Indirect Cost: ¥270,000)
• Keywords: 統語論 / 形式意味論 / 引用構文 / 意味論 / 日本語 / 複合動詞 / 補文 / 補文構造

Outline of Final Research Achievements

This study is a syntactic and semantic scrutiny of the clausal complementation in Japanese. Specifically, it considers the quotative complementation, contending: (i) the reporting particle "to" in Japanese is not a complementizer but an adjunct particle contra the literature, and (ii) the quotative complementation involves a grammaticalized verb SAY, which is phonologically covert. Due to (i), the pertinent particle can be adjoined to various syntactic categories, which consequently derives iconic adverbs rendered by onomatopoeias with "to" as well as the naming construction. Furthermore, (ii) explains the syntactic distribution of the "to" clause and its adverbial behavior.

Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements

従来の生成文法における統語研究では、引用助詞「と」は一部の研究を除き補文標識であるとされていた。すなわち文埋め込みに関する要素であり、しばしば英語の that と同様に扱われることがあった。しかし、国語学などの日本語の記述的研究では「と」が様々な要素と出現することが示されている。また、「と」がなぜ直接引用にも間接引用にも同様に用いられるのか、なぜ日本語は命令文を埋め込むことができるのかなどが統語的にあまり説明されてこなかった。本研究では、「と」を補文標識ではなく、付加的接辞であると提案することにより、上述の「と」の性質が統一的に説明される。

Research Products

• [Journal Article] Syntactic Analysis of Alleged Locative Alternating Compounds (2017)
  • Author(s): Takayuki Akimoto and Koji Shimamura
  • Journal Title: The Proceedings of Seoul International Conference on Generative Grammar Volume: 19 Pages: 39-51
  • Peer Reviewed
• [Journal Article] On the Internal and External Syntax and Semantics of Report in Japanese (2016)
  • Author(s): Koji Shimamura
  • Journal Title: The Proceedings of Seoul International Conference on Generative Grammar Volume: 18 Pages: 535-554
  • Peer Reviewed / Int'l Joint Research / Acknowledgement Compliant
• [Journal Article] Indexical Shifting in Kansai Japanese and Nominalization under Wh-agreement (2016)
  • Author(s): Shintaro Hayashi, Satoshi Ito, Hisao Kurokami, Koji Shimamura and Ayaka Sugawara
  • Journal Title: Proceedings of Formal Approach to Japanese Linguistics 8, MIT Working Papers in Linguistics Volume: 79 Pages: 31-42
  • Peer Reviewed / Int'l Joint Research
• [Presentation] The Fiction of CP Recursion: On the Nature of Complementizers in Japanese (2017)
  • Author(s): Koji Shimamura
  • Organizer: 中央大学人文科学研究所公開研究会
  • Place of Presentation: 中央大学（東京都 八王子市）
  • Year and Date: 2017-02-03
  • Int'l Joint Research / Invited
• [Presentation] Introducing Quote in Japanese and Its Cross-linguistic Relevance (2017)
  • Author(s): Koji Shimamura
  • Organizer: 日本言語学会 154回大会
• [Presentation] Syntactic Analysis of Alleged Locative Alternating Compounds (2017)
  • Author(s): Takayuki Akimoto and Koji Shimamura
  • Organizer: SICOGG 19
  • Int'l Joint Research
• [Presentation] Only in Syntax: Syntactic Derivation of Lexical Compounds in Japanese (2017)
  • Author(s): Koji Shimamura and Takayuki Akimoto
  • Organizer: 日本言語学会 155回大会
• [Presentation] Syntax and Semantics of Japanese Subclausal Quotation (2017)
  • Author(s): Koji Shimamura
  • Organizer: Toyo Gakuen University Workshop on Theoretical Linguistics Syntax and its interfaces
  • Invited
• [Presentation] On the Internal and External Syntax and Semantics of Report in Japanese (2016)
  • Author(s): Koji Shimamura
  • Organizer: Seoul International Conference on Generative Grammar 18
  • Place of Presentation: 西江大学校（韓国 ソウル）
  • Year and Date: 2016-08-02
  • Int'l Joint Research
• [Presentation] Diagnosing Movement in Japanese: In Terms of Three (Controversial) Cases (2016)
  • Author(s): Shintaro Hayashi, Koji Shimamura and Hideharu Tanaka
  • Organizer: 関西言語学会４１回大会
  • Place of Presentation: 龍谷大学（京都府 京都市）
  • Year and Date: 2016-06-11
• [Book] The Verbal Domain (2017)
  • Author(s): Roberta D'Alessandro, Irene Franco, Angel J. Gallego, Alec Marantz, Susi Wurmbrand, Koji Shimamura, Jim Wood, Elena Anagnostopoulou, Heidi Harley, Maria Polinsky, Nina Radkevich, Marina Chumakina, Florian Schafer, Artemis Alexiadou, Terje Lohndal, Phoevos Panagiotidis, Vassilios Spyropoulos, Anthi Revithiadou 他
  • Total Pages: 352
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press
• [Remarks] OpenCommons@UConn
  • URL: https://opencommons.uconn.edu/dissertations/2023/