| Budget Amount *help |
¥2,080,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,600,000、Indirect Cost: ¥480,000)
Fiscal Year 2019: ¥650,000 (Direct Cost: ¥500,000、Indirect Cost: ¥150,000)
Fiscal Year 2018: ¥650,000 (Direct Cost: ¥500,000、Indirect Cost: ¥150,000)
Fiscal Year 2017: ¥780,000 (Direct Cost: ¥600,000、Indirect Cost: ¥180,000)
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| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
This study has considered semantic functions that NPs perform within sentences in relation to definiteness of NPs, and refined the classification of copular sentences and the analysis of their semantic structures. It has shown that by noting not only the distinction between referential NPs and non-referential NPs, but also more detailed distinctions among specific NPs, non-specific NPs, NPs whose referents are individual entities, NPs whose referents are descriptions of characteristics, property NPs and NPIVs (NPs involving variables (Nishiyama 2003)), we can more adequately explain semantic properties of noun phrases that appear in various constructions, such as copular sentences, existential sentences, cleft sentences, inversions, sentences describing change, concealed questions, concealed exclamatives, NE (noun phrase extraposition), subject contact relatives, and transparent free relatives.
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