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Generative Grammatical Study on Possibilities and Elaborations on the MERGE operation in the Minimalist Program

Research Project

Project/Area Number 18K00543
Research Category

Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)

Allocation TypeMulti-year Fund
Section一般
Review Section Basic Section 02060:Linguistics-related
Research InstitutionTohoku Gakuin University

Principal Investigator

Toyoshima Takashi  東北学院大学, 文学部, 教授 (40311857)

Project Period (FY) 2018-04-01 – 2021-03-31
Project Status Completed (Fiscal Year 2020)
Budget Amount *help
¥3,510,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,700,000、Indirect Cost: ¥810,000)
Fiscal Year 2020: ¥910,000 (Direct Cost: ¥700,000、Indirect Cost: ¥210,000)
Fiscal Year 2019: ¥1,690,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,300,000、Indirect Cost: ¥390,000)
Fiscal Year 2018: ¥910,000 (Direct Cost: ¥700,000、Indirect Cost: ¥210,000)
Keywords生成文法 / 極小主義 / 大併合 / 集合 / 順序対 / 複写 / 反復 / 単調性 / 併合 / 多重支配構造
Outline of Final Research Achievements


In the Minimalist Program of Generative Grammar, the latest proposal of the sole structure- building operation MERGE has been discussed, but its precise formulation is yet to come and it is still vague. Therefore, this project has conducted a thorough empirical investigation of various phenomena that prompted the proposal of MERGE, scrutinizing and attempting its rigorous definition.
As results, a new rigorous definition without vagueness has been reached, and yet some vagueness still remains in the conditions to determine the accessibility of syntactic objects, affected by the operation MERGE, but not in MERGE itself.

Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements

生成文法理論における極小主義プログラムでは、生物種としてヒトのみが遺伝的に言語機能を持ち、適切な言語環境刺激の基、自然法則に従って高度な言語能力を持つに至ると仮定するが、その言語能力に最低限で唯一必要な統語構造構築操作として「大併合」操作が提案されているが、学術的意義として厳密な定義付けを行い、更なる暗黙の前提を炙り出し、経験的現象の分析に対する足掛かりの一部を提供したことになる。

Report

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

    (3 results)

All 2020 2019

All Presentation (3 results) (of which Invited: 2 results)

  • [Presentation] コメント:空範疇、空演算子、削除と文脈的決定2020

    • Author(s)
      豊島孝之
    • Organizer
      日本英語学会 第38回大会 ワークショップ「統語領域における copy をめぐる諸問題 ― copy 派生メカニズムの単純化」
    • Related Report
      2020 Annual Research Report
  • [Presentation] 生成文法理論:モデルの変遷とその理論的根拠2019

    • Author(s)
      北原久嗣、大石正幸、野村昌司、大宗純、豊島孝之
    • Organizer
      北海道大学言語学コロキアム
    • Related Report
      2019 Research-status Report
    • Invited
  • [Presentation] MERGE and Language Design2019

    • Author(s)
      北原久嗣・豊島孝之
    • Organizer
      慶應言語学コロキアム
    • Related Report
      2019 Research-status Report
    • Invited

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Published: 2018-04-23   Modified: 2022-01-27  

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