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Internal Merge Mechanism and Syntactic Nature of Wh-operators

Research Project

Project/Area Number 18K00553
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 University

Principal Investigator

Kitao Yasuyuki  愛知大学, 国際コミュニケーション学部, 教授 (90454313)

Project Period (FY) 2018-04-01 – 2022-03-31
Project Status Completed (Fiscal Year 2021)
Budget Amount *help
¥2,210,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,700,000、Indirect Cost: ¥510,000)
Fiscal Year 2020: ¥910,000 (Direct Cost: ¥700,000、Indirect Cost: ¥210,000)
Fiscal Year 2019: ¥780,000 (Direct Cost: ¥600,000、Indirect Cost: ¥180,000)
Fiscal Year 2018: ¥520,000 (Direct Cost: ¥400,000、Indirect Cost: ¥120,000)
Keywordswh 移動 / 分裂文 / 関係節 / 凍結原理 / 基準凍結 / 内的併合 / 再述代名詞 / 長距離依存性 / it 分裂文 / 再構築効果・連結性 / 代入構造 / 付加構造 / 主要部上昇移動 / WH演算子 / 非項位置への移動
Outline of Final Research Achievements

This research clarifies the Internal Merge mechanism and syntactic nature of wh-operators by examining relative clauses and cleft constructions in addition to pure wh-interrogatives.
Relative clauses and cleft constructions involve wh-movement, but differ in terms of their syntactic nature from wh-interrogatives. This study argues that this difference is caused by dissimilarity in derivational structures. Restrictive relatives and it-clefts can be derived by the substitution structure based on the promotion of the head/focus NP from the relative clause/presuppositional clause. However, this option is not available for wh-interrogatives. This research strengthens this argument by conducting detailed analyses of reconstruction/connectivity effects and freezing effects of sub-extraction from dislocated elements. Moreover, this study elucidates the validity of the Freezing Principle/Criterial Freezing in the syntactic derivation of natural language.

Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements

焦点句を際立たせる分裂文や名詞句の特徴を示す関係節は語用論的側面に基づき生成されるという分析もあるが、本研究によりその派生には統語的要因が深く絡んでいることが明らかになった。
関係節・分裂文にはWH演算子の移動が絡むものの、一方で再構築・連結性および凍結原理をはじめとして純粋なwh移動とは異なる統語的事実も示す。本研究で、これらの違いは同じwh移動であっても関係節・分裂文は主要部上昇移動をもとにした代入構造に基づく統語計算が可能であることに起因することを明らかにした。代入構造と付加構造の統語派生の違いと統語現象の関連性を明らかにしたことは、自然言語の特性を解明する上で意義があると思われる。

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

    (8 results)

All 2022 2021 2020 2019 2018

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

  • [Journal Article] 談話と統語構造―it-cleft 分裂文の派生―2022

    • Author(s)
      北尾 泰幸
    • Journal Title

      日本英文学会中部支部第 73 回大会プロシーディングス

      Volume: 73

    • Related Report
      2021 Annual Research Report
    • Peer Reviewed / Open Access
  • [Journal Article] Freezing Principle in English Cleft Sentences2021

    • Author(s)
      Kitao, Yasuyuki
    • Journal Title

      JELS

      Volume: 38 Pages: 23-29

    • Related Report
      2020 Research-status Report
    • Peer Reviewed / Open Access
  • [Journal Article] 関係節における演算子移動と再述代名詞の生起について2020

    • Author(s)
      北尾泰幸
    • Journal Title

      日本英文学会関西支部Proceedings

      Volume: 14 Pages: 15-16

    • Related Report
      2020 Research-status Report
    • Peer Reviewed / Open Access
  • [Journal Article] "Left Branch Extraction in Japanese Relative Clauses"2019

    • Author(s)
      Yasuyuki Kitao
    • Journal Title

      『言語分析のフロンティア』(仁科恭徳・吉村由佳・吉川裕介(編)、金星堂)

      Volume: 0000 Pages: 122-137

    • Related Report
      2018 Research-status Report
  • [Presentation] 発話行為と統語現象のインターフェース2021

    • Author(s)
      北尾 泰幸・森田 久司・川原 功司・前澤 大樹
    • Organizer
      日本英文学会中部支部第 73 回大会
    • Related Report
      2021 Annual Research Report
  • [Presentation] 英語分裂文における凍結原理2020

    • Author(s)
      北尾泰幸
    • Organizer
      日本英語学会 第 38 回大会
    • Related Report
      2020 Research-status Report
  • [Presentation] 関係節における演算子移動と再述代名詞の生起について(シンポジウム:CP の構築と wh 移動の諸相)2019

    • Author(s)
      北尾 泰幸
    • Organizer
      日本英文学会関西支部第 14 回大会
    • Related Report
      2019 Research-status Report
    • Invited
  • [Presentation] "Long-Distance Dependency in Japanese Relativization: Resumptivity and Operator Movement"2018

    • Author(s)
      Yasuyuki Kitao
    • Organizer
      Workshop on Long-distance Dependencies (LDD 2018)
    • Related Report
      2018 Research-status Report
    • Int'l Joint Research

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

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