A Syntactic Approach to the Development of Transitive Expletive Constructions
Project/Area Number |
16K16853
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Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)
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Allocation Type | Multi-year Fund |
Research Field |
English linguistics
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Research Institution | Hokkaido University of Education |
Principal Investigator |
HONDA Shoko 北海道教育大学, 教育学部, 特任講師 (40735924)
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Research Collaborator |
Tanaka Tomoyuki
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Project Period (FY) |
2016-04-01 – 2018-03-31
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Project Status |
Completed (Fiscal Year 2017)
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Budget Amount *help |
¥2,600,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,000,000、Indirect Cost: ¥600,000)
Fiscal Year 2017: ¥1,300,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,000,000、Indirect Cost: ¥300,000)
Fiscal Year 2016: ¥1,300,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,000,000、Indirect Cost: ¥300,000)
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Keywords | 英語史 / 史的統語論 / 英語学 |
Outline of Final Research Achievements |
This study aims to account for the development of expletive constructions in the history of English, by postulating the cartographic approach proposed by Nawata (2016) and the labeling algorithms proposed by Chomsky (2013). It is argued that the loss of verbal plural number morpheme -en in the latter half of the fourteenth century caused Fin to get an obligatory EPP-feature and, with the analogy to Fin, T to get an optional EPP-feature, which in turn led to the appearance of transitive expletive constructions and unergative expletive constructions. It is explained that the (un)grammaticality of transitive expletive constructions and unergative expletive constructions is due to the (im)possibility of the labeling, not the (im)possibility of the nominative checking in the TP domain, proposed by some previous studies. Then, the loss of transitive expletive constructions in the sixteenth century is shown to be that of T-to-Fin movement and V2 word order.
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