| Project/Area Number |
17K13477
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)
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| Allocation Type | Multi-year Fund |
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| Research Field |
English linguistics
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| Research Institution | Meijo University (2018-2019)
Fujita Health University (2017) |
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Principal Investigator |
Kume Yusuke 名城大学, 法学部, 准教授 (40645173)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2017-04-01 – 2020-03-31
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| Project Status |
Completed (Fiscal Year 2019)
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| Budget Amount *help |
¥1,950,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,500,000、Indirect Cost: ¥450,000)
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: ¥650,000 (Direct Cost: ¥500,000、Indirect Cost: ¥150,000)
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| Keywords | 中間構文 / 能格構文 / 叙述構造 / 潜在的動作主 / 英語学 / 史的統語論 / 生成文法 / 文法化 |
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| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
It is suggested that peculiar properties of middle constructions in Present-day English, i.e. predicative meaning of the subject, implication of implicit agent and obligatory co-occurrence of a modal auxiliary, a negative element or a manner adverb denoting difficulty come from structural changes of ergative constructions, i.e. the introduction of a predicative functional category R and the demotion of arbitrary PRO. More precisely, as a result of the introduction of R, an event denoted by vP is described by an adjective denoting difficulty or null adjective of possiblity, and the arbitrary PRO is adjoined to vP because of the increase of agent orientation of adverbs in the construction.
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| Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements |
中間構文は多くの先行研究により様々な分析がなされ、その特異性について説明されてきたが、いまだに十分説得力のある結論に至っていない。本研究では現代英語だけでなく、古英語、中英語、近代英語において中間構文とその関連構文を通時的に観察・分析することによって、これまでの共時的な分析にはない新しい視点から中間構文の特異性を統語・意味の両面で理論的かつ実証的にとらえることができた。
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