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Parallels between Japanese case markers and English prepositions regarding null elements

Research Project

Project/Area Number 17K13479
Research Category

Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)

Allocation TypeMulti-year Fund
Research Field English linguistics
Research InstitutionKobe Women's University

Principal Investigator

Honda Takahiro  神戸女子大学, 文学部, 准教授 (20756457)

Project Period (FY) 2017-04-01 – 2020-03-31
Project Status Completed (Fiscal Year 2019)
Budget Amount *help
¥1,820,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,400,000、Indirect Cost: ¥420,000)
Fiscal Year 2019: ¥390,000 (Direct Cost: ¥300,000、Indirect Cost: ¥90,000)
Fiscal Year 2018: ¥780,000 (Direct Cost: ¥600,000、Indirect Cost: ¥180,000)
Fiscal Year 2017: ¥650,000 (Direct Cost: ¥500,000、Indirect Cost: ¥150,000)
Keywords格助詞 / 関係詞 / 前置詞 / 素性共有 / ラベル付け / 反ラベリング / 擬似受動文 / φ素性 / 格素性 / 演算子素性 / there構文 / 素性継承 / PRO / pro / 格フィルター / 抽象格 / 形態格 / ゼロ代名詞 / 言語学 / 生成文法理論 / 空範疇 / 空演算子 / 格
Outline of Final Research Achievements

This research aims at exploring parallelism between Japanese case markers and English prepositions, both of which cannot co-occur with phonetically null elements. Although nominative and accusative case markers in Japanese can be optionally omitted, case marker drop is obligatory when the host is a null element such as pro. In addition, English relative pronouns can be either wh-words or null operators, but they cannot be null operators when they are complements of prepositions. To explain these phenomena, I have proposed that Japanese case markers and English prepositions are weak heads that cannot provide labels without sharing Case features, and that null elements lack the features. I have also explained why a that-clause can be the subject of a pseudopassive sentence in English while it cannot be the object of a preposition in the active by formulating Reanalysis under Pair-Merge.

Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements

日本語においては音形を持たない代名詞類であるproが出現可能であることと、日本語格助詞の脱落は多くの場合随意的であることはよく知られた事実であるが、proも名詞の一種であると考えた場合、proが現れた場合に格助詞脱落が義務的である理由は検討されていない。また、英語の関係代名詞は省略されることもあるが、前置詞と共起した場合は省略できないことが知られている。これらの事実は一見すると無関係に思われるが、音形を持たない空要素と共起できないという事実に着目すると日本語格助詞と英語前置詞の間には何らかの共通点が存在すると考えられ、その共通点を調べることで人間言語の仕組みの理解に貢献することを試みた。

Report

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

    (8 results)

All 2020 2019 2018 2017

All Journal Article (6 results) (of which Peer Reviewed: 3 results,  Open Access: 1 results) Presentation (1 results) (of which Int'l Joint Research: 1 results) Book (1 results)

  • [Journal Article] Deriving Pseudopassives by Pair-Merge2020

    • Author(s)
      Takahiro Honda
    • Journal Title

      Osaka University Papers in English Linguistics

      Volume: 19 Pages: 65-74

    • NAID

      120006891399

    • Related Report
      2019 Annual Research Report
  • [Journal Article] 空要素に対する日本語格助詞と英語前置詞の平行性2020

    • Author(s)
      本田 隆裕
    • Journal Title

      『英語学の深まり・英語学からの広がり』, 英宝社

      Volume: 論文集 Pages: 220-232

    • Related Report
      2019 Annual Research Report
  • [Journal Article] A Split Phi-Features Hypothesis and the Origin of the Expletive There2020

    • Author(s)
      Takahiro Honda
    • Journal Title

      English Linguistics

      Volume: 37

    • NAID

      40022376074

    • Related Report
      2019 Annual Research Report
    • Peer Reviewed
  • [Journal Article] 前置詞と素性継承2019

    • Author(s)
      本田 隆裕
    • Journal Title

      神戸女子大学文学部紀要

      Volume: 52 Pages: 13-26

    • NAID

      120006882834

    • Related Report
      2018 Research-status Report
    • Peer Reviewed
  • [Journal Article] 格助詞とゼロ代名詞2018

    • Author(s)
      本田 隆裕
    • Journal Title

      神戸女子大学文学部紀要

      Volume: 51 Pages: 17-28

    • NAID

      120006884001

    • Related Report
      2017 Research-status Report
    • Peer Reviewed
  • [Journal Article] Prepositions and Null Determiners2017

    • Author(s)
      Takahiro Honda
    • Journal Title

      OUPEL(Osaka University Papers in English Linguistics)

      Volume: 18 Pages: 113-125

    • DOI

      10.18910/67786

    • NAID

      120006399236

    • ISSN
      09196293
    • Related Report
      2017 Research-status Report
    • Open Access
  • [Presentation] Parallels between Japanese case markers and English prepositions regarding null elements2019

    • Author(s)
      Takahiro Honda
    • Organizer
      The 43rd annual Penn Linguistics Conference
    • Related Report
      2018 Research-status Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Book] 『英語学の深まり・英語学からの広がり』2020

    • Author(s)
      南佑亮・本田隆裕・田中英理(共編著)
    • Total Pages
      268
    • Publisher
      英宝社
    • ISBN
      9784269770577
    • Related Report
      2019 Annual Research Report

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

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