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Nominative-Genitive Conversion and language change in progress: A psycholinguistic study

Research Project

Project/Area Number 17K13438
Research Category

Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)

Allocation TypeMulti-year Fund
Research Field Linguistics
Research InstitutionNiigata Seiryou University (2019)
Tohoku University (2017-2018)

Principal Investigator

Niikuni Keiyu  新潟青陵大学, 福祉心理学部, 助教 (60770500)

Project Period (FY) 2017-04-01 – 2020-03-31
Project Status Completed (Fiscal Year 2019)
Budget Amount *help
¥3,900,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,000,000、Indirect Cost: ¥900,000)
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: ¥1,430,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,100,000、Indirect Cost: ¥330,000)
Keywords言語変化 / 主格属格交替 / 容認性 / 個人差 / 世代間比較 / 文理解 / 読書量 / 容認性判断 / 世代間差 / 読み時間 / 文処理
Outline of Final Research Achievements

Several diachronic corpus studies have demonstrated that Nominative-Genitive Conversion (NGC) in Japanese has declined in frequency in the last century. This study aimed to clarify whether and in which way this language change is currently in progress, primarily focusing on the intergenerational differences in the acceptability of Nominative/Genitive subject sentences in Japanese. The results of more than five web-based surveys, each including hundreds of native speakers of Japanese, show that younger speakers are less likely to accept Genitive subjects in various syntactic environments, with no such intergenerational differences for Nominative-subject sentences. These findings suggest that the language change underlying NGC is still in progress, in that Genitive subjects are permitted under increasingly limited conditions. Further, this study revealed a positive correlation between print exposure and the acceptability of NGC.

Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements

近年の言語変化研究は、通時コーパスの分析をその主たる手法として進められている。一方、本研究は、文刺激に対する反応の世代間比較という言語変化に対する新たなアプローチを採用したものであり、そのような手法の有用性を示した点に特に大きな学術的意義があると考えている。今後は、本研究で確立された心理学的手法を用いることにより、コーパス分析では解明できなかった言語変化に関するさらに多くの事実が明らかとなることが期待される。また、本研究において得られた、読書・インターネット利用が話者の文法的知識に影響するという知見は国際的に見ても新規であり、かつ教育実践への応用が見込まれる点で社会的意義が大きいと考える。

Report

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

    (19 results)

All 2020 2019 2018 2017 Other

All Journal Article (4 results) (of which Int'l Joint Research: 1 results,  Peer Reviewed: 4 results,  Open Access: 2 results) Presentation (11 results) (of which Int'l Joint Research: 5 results,  Invited: 1 results) Book (2 results) Remarks (2 results)

  • [Journal Article] 初読後の想起練習が再読時の読み処理に及ぼす影響:眼球運動を指標として2019

    • Author(s)
      齋藤玲・新国佳祐・和田裕一・邑本俊亮
    • Journal Title

      読書科学

      Volume: 印刷中

    • NAID

      130007908618

    • Related Report
      2018 Research-status Report
    • Peer Reviewed
  • [Journal Article] Agent versus non-agent motions influence language production: Word order and perspective in a VOS language2018

    • Author(s)
      Manami Sato, Keiyu Niikuni, Amy J. Schafer, Masatoshi Koizumi
    • Journal Title

      Proceedings of the 40th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society

      Volume: - Pages: 1031-1036

    • Related Report
      2018 Research-status Report
    • Peer Reviewed / Open Access / Int'l Joint Research
  • [Journal Article] Nominative/Genitive Conversion in Japanese and syntactic clause shrinking now in progress2018

    • Author(s)
      Yoshiki Ogawa, Keiyu Niikuni, Yuichi Wada
    • Journal Title

      LACUS Forum

      Volume: 44

    • Related Report
      2017 Research-status Report
    • Peer Reviewed
  • [Journal Article] Nominative-Genitive Conversion and Language Change Still in Progress: Evidence from Acceptability Judgments by Different age Groups2017

    • Author(s)
      新国佳祐・和田裕一・小川芳樹
    • Journal Title

      Cognitive Studies: Bulletin of the Japanese Cognitive Science Society

      Volume: 24 Issue: 3 Pages: 395-409

    • DOI

      10.11225/jcss.24.395

    • NAID

      130006407245

    • ISSN
      1341-7924, 1881-5995
    • Related Report
      2017 Research-status Report
    • Peer Reviewed / Open Access
  • [Presentation] Nominalization and De-nominalization as Diachronic Syntactic Change2019

    • Author(s)
      Yoshiki Ogawa, Keiyu Niikuni, Yuichi Wada
    • Organizer
      JENom 8: 8th Workshop on Nominalizations
    • Related Report
      2019 Annual Research Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] 形式名詞の文法化と属格主語について2019

    • Author(s)
      新国佳祐,和田裕一,小川芳樹
    • Organizer
      東北大学大学院情報科学研究科言語変化・変異研究ユニット主催第5回ワークショップ
    • Related Report
      2018 Research-status Report
  • [Presentation] 言語研究のためのPythonとPsychopyによる実験プログラム2019

    • Author(s)
      新国佳祐
    • Organizer
      東北大学大学院文学研究科言語学方法論講座シリーズ1
    • Related Report
      2018 Research-status Report
    • Invited
  • [Presentation] 読書・インターネット利用と進行中の言語変化2018

    • Author(s)
      水野奈津美、和田裕一、深谷優子、新国佳祐
    • Organizer
      日本心理学会第82回大会
    • Related Report
      2018 Research-status Report
  • [Presentation] 初読後の想起練習課題による再読時の認知処理の調節:眼球運動と瞳孔径を指標として2018

    • Author(s)
      齋藤玲・新国佳祐・和田裕一・邑本俊亮
    • Organizer
      日本心理学会第82回大会
    • Related Report
      2018 Research-status Report
  • [Presentation] Syntactic Gradience between Finite Clauses and Small Clauses: Evidence from a Diachronic Change in Genitive Subject Clauses in Japanese2018

    • Author(s)
      Yoshiki Ogawa, Keiyu Niikuni, Yuichi Wada
    • Organizer
      The Shaping of Transitivity and Argument Structure: Theoretical and Empirical Perspectives
    • Related Report
      2018 Research-status Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] A Case for an Ongoing Left Periphery Truncation of Finite Clauses: Evidence from Adverbs' Compatibility with Genitive Subjects in Japanese2018

    • Author(s)
      Yoshiki Ogawa, Keiyu Niikuni, Yuichi Wada
    • Organizer
      Seoul National University International Conference on Linguistics
    • Related Report
      2018 Research-status Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] Agent versus non-agent motions influence language production: Word order and perspective in a VOS language2018

    • Author(s)
      Manami Sato, Keiyu Niikuni, Amy J. Schafer, Masatoshi Koizumi
    • Organizer
      The 40th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society
    • Related Report
      2018 Research-status Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] 文の容認性世代間差から見る言語変化:ガ/ノ交替に着目して2017

    • Author(s)
      新国佳祐,和田裕一,小川芳樹
    • Organizer
      日本心理学会第81回大会
    • Related Report
      2017 Research-status Report
  • [Presentation] ガ/ノ交替の容認性世代間差から見る進行中の構造変化:所有形容詞文と属性叙述文とコピュラ文に着目して2017

    • Author(s)
      新国佳祐,和田裕一,小川芳樹
    • Organizer
      東北大学大学院情報科学研究科言語変化・変異研究ユニット主催第4回ワークショップ
    • Related Report
      2017 Research-status Report
  • [Presentation] Nominative/Genitive Conversion in Japanese and syntactic clause shrinking now in progress2017

    • Author(s)
      Yoshiki Ogawa, Keiyu Niikuni, Yuichi Wada
    • Organizer
      The 44th Annual LACUS Forum
    • Related Report
      2017 Research-status Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Book] 「名詞+(が+)(XP+)(で)ある」型複雑述部における主格助詞の随意性について(由本陽子・岸本秀樹 (編) 『名詞をめぐる諸問題:語形成・意味・構文』)2020

    • Author(s)
      小川芳樹・新国佳祐・和田裕一
    • Publisher
      開拓社
    • Related Report
      2019 Annual Research Report
  • [Book] 形式名詞「はず」の文法化と属格主語の容認性における世代間差(小川芳樹 (編) 『コーパスからわかる言語変化・変異と言語理論2』)2019

    • Author(s)
      新国佳祐・和田裕一・小菅智也・小川芳樹
    • Total Pages
      28
    • Publisher
      開拓社
    • Related Report
      2019 Annual Research Report
  • [Remarks] 東北大学大学院情報科学研究科 言語変化・変異研究ユニット

    • URL

      http://ling.human.is.tohoku.ac.jp/change/home.html

    • Related Report
      2018 Research-status Report
  • [Remarks] 東北大学大学院情報科学研究科 言語変化・変異研究ユニット

    • URL

      http://ling.human.is.tohoku.ac.jp/change/home.html

    • Related Report
      2017 Research-status Report

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Published: 2017-04-28   Modified: 2021-02-19  

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