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Investigating the indexical shift mechanism and its interaction with the syntax and pragmatics interface

Research Project

Project/Area Number 18K00540
Research Category

Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)

Allocation TypeMulti-year Fund
Section一般
Review Section Basic Section 02060:Linguistics-related
Research InstitutionAichi Prefectural University

Principal Investigator

Morita Hisashi  愛知県立大学, 外国語学部, 教授 (30381742)

Project Period (FY) 2018-04-01 – 2022-03-31
Project Status Completed (Fiscal Year 2021)
Budget Amount *help
¥2,340,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,800,000、Indirect Cost: ¥540,000)
Fiscal Year 2020: ¥780,000 (Direct Cost: ¥600,000、Indirect Cost: ¥180,000)
Fiscal Year 2019: ¥780,000 (Direct Cost: ¥600,000、Indirect Cost: ¥180,000)
Fiscal Year 2018: ¥780,000 (Direct Cost: ¥600,000、Indirect Cost: ¥180,000)
Keywordsutterance event / symbol / monster operator / logophor / perspective / point of view / indexical shift / pivot / indexicals / long-distance anaphor / 指標表現 / 敬体 / 丁寧語 / 補助動詞 / 間接引用 / 時制 / 再帰代名詞 / 指標表現 (indexical) / 視点 (perspective) / 謙譲語 (honorifics) / 言語行為 (speech act)
Outline of Final Research Achievements

This research achieved three goals. First, we have shown that cross-linguistically speaking, shiftable indexical expressions are much more employed than generally assumed, and Japanese auxiliary expressions are rich in shiftable indexical expressions. Secondly, the current research has established how to distinguish shiftable indexical expressions and logophors, the latter of which behave in similar ways to the former but are distinct. Finally, in the literature, the use of monster operators is generally assumed to explain the shifting mechanism of indexicals; however, we have proposed a new method to do so based on the notion of an utterance event associated with symbolic expressions in Ramchand's (2018) Situations and Syntactic Structures.

Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements

概要でも述べたように、従来、指標表現と考えられていなかった、「・・・てしまう」、「・・・そう」といった、日本語の助動詞表現も指標表現と見なせることを示したことにより、研究対象の拡大の必要性を当該分野に訴えることができた。また、助動詞表現の中にも、「です」、「ます」が含まれており、これらは、国語学の敬語表現の上で、どの分類にも属さない、特別表現とされてきたが、それらは、「聞き手」に敬意を表す指標表現であると認識することにより、新たな分類方法の道を示すことができた。

Report

(5 results)
  • 2021 Annual Research Report   Final Research Report ( PDF )
  • 2020 Research-status Report
  • 2019 Research-status Report
  • 2018 Research-status Report
  • Research Products

    (16 results)

All 2021 2019 2018 Other

All Int'l Joint Research (1 results) Journal Article (4 results) (of which Int'l Joint Research: 2 results,  Peer Reviewed: 3 results,  Open Access: 4 results) Presentation (7 results) (of which Int'l Joint Research: 6 results,  Invited: 1 results) Remarks (4 results)

  • [Int'l Joint Research] University of Tromso(ノルウェー)

    • Related Report
      2019 Research-status Report
  • [Journal Article] [Review] Questions by V. Dayal2021

    • Author(s)
      Hisashi Morita
    • Journal Title

      English Linguistics

      Volume: 38 (1) Pages: 176-187

    • Related Report
      2021 Annual Research Report
    • Peer Reviewed / Open Access / Int'l Joint Research
  • [Journal Article] Shifty Indexicals and Logophors in Japanese2019

    • Author(s)
      Hisashi Morita and Gillian Ramchand
    • Journal Title

      日本言語学会第159回大会予稿集

      Volume: 159 Pages: 353-359

    • Related Report
      2019 Research-status Report
    • Peer Reviewed / Open Access / Int'l Joint Research
  • [Journal Article] The Syntax, Semantics, and Pragmatics of Covert Pied-Piping in Sinhala and Japanese2019

    • Author(s)
      Hisashi Morita
    • Journal Title

      Journal of East Asian Linguistics

      Volume: 28 Issue: 4 Pages: 307-356

    • DOI

      10.1007/s10831-019-09197-1

    • Related Report
      2019 Research-status Report
    • Peer Reviewed / Open Access
  • [Journal Article] Two Kinds of In-situ Languages and Two Ways to Overcome Islands2019

    • Author(s)
      Hisashi Morita
    • Journal Title

      Mulberry

      Volume: 69 Pages: 39-61

    • NAID

      40021988549

    • Related Report
      2019 Research-status Report
    • Open Access
  • [Presentation] Indirect Dependency to Weak Islands and More2021

    • Author(s)
      Hisashi Morita
    • Organizer
      The 30th Colloquium on Generative Grammar (30 CGG)
    • Related Report
      2021 Annual Research Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] 発話行為句(SpeechAct Phrase)を伴わない発話行為2021

    • Author(s)
      森田 久司
    • Organizer
      日本英文学会中部支部第73回大会シンポジウム『発話行為と統語現象のインターフェース』,
    • Related Report
      2021 Annual Research Report
    • Invited
  • [Presentation] Shifty Indexicals and Logophors in Japanese2019

    • Author(s)
      Hisashi Morita and Gillian Ramchand
    • Organizer
      日本言語学会第159回大会
    • Related Report
      2019 Research-status Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] Intervention effects inside islands in wh-in-situ languages2019

    • Author(s)
      Hisashi Morita
    • Organizer
      The Workshop on Approaches to Wh-Intervention
    • Related Report
      2019 Research-status Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] A study of the disjunction particles and wh-elements in Malayalam, Sinhala, and Japanese2018

    • Author(s)
      Hisashi Morita
    • Organizer
      The 34th South Asian Languages Analysis Roundtable (SALA-34)
    • Related Report
      2018 Research-status Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] Two kinds of in-situ languages and two ways to overcome islands2018

    • Author(s)
      Hisashi Morita
    • Organizer
      Recent Issues in the Syntax of Questions (RISQ)
    • Related Report
      2018 Research-status Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] A syntactic account of Greenberg’s (1963) correlation between the head parameter and the word order of relative clauses2018

    • Author(s)
      Hisashi Morita and Takashi Ikeda
    • Organizer
      The A0 (Adjective as a Lexical Category) Workshop
    • Related Report
      2018 Research-status Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Remarks] Researchgate

    • URL

      https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Hisashi_Morita/research

    • Related Report
      2019 Research-status Report
  • [Remarks] Researchmap

    • URL

      https://researchmap.jp/hisamorita/published_papers

    • Related Report
      2019 Research-status Report
  • [Remarks] Academia

    • URL

      https://aichi-pu.academia.edu/HMorita

    • Related Report
      2019 Research-status Report
  • [Remarks] Publons

    • URL

      https://publons.com/researcher/3521955/hisashi-morita/

    • Related Report
      2019 Research-status Report

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Published: 2018-04-23   Modified: 2023-01-30  

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