| Project/Area Number |
18K00592
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
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| Allocation Type | Multi-year Fund |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Review Section |
Basic Section 02060:Linguistics-related
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| Research Institution | Chukyo University |
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Principal Investigator |
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| Project Period (FY) |
2018-04-01 – 2024-03-31
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| Project Status |
Completed (Fiscal Year 2023)
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| Budget Amount *help |
¥3,380,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,600,000、Indirect Cost: ¥780,000)
Fiscal Year 2020: ¥1,040,000 (Direct Cost: ¥800,000、Indirect Cost: ¥240,000)
Fiscal Year 2019: ¥1,040,000 (Direct Cost: ¥800,000、Indirect Cost: ¥240,000)
Fiscal Year 2018: ¥1,300,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,000,000、Indirect Cost: ¥300,000)
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| Keywords | pair-Merge / Labeling Algorithm / Internal / External / passives / MERGE / Head movement / Head Movement / Miracle Creed / Strong Minimalist Thesis / Chomsky / FORMSEQUENCE / Chomsky (2015) / Chomsky, et al. (2019) / Passives / Causatives / Japanese / 統語論 / 生成文法理論 / ミニマリスト・プログラム / 併合 |
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| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
Under the framework of a minimalist program, this research project aims to further minimize and simplify the syntactic system that plays the core of the language organ and aims to construct a system in which the only structure building operation is simple Merge. First, we have examined whether pair-Merge, which is different from simple Merge, is available in the analysis of "head-movement," and by the application of the syntactic operation pair-Merge, we have shown that it can generate various types of verbs such as transitive verbs, unaccusative verbs, and unergative verbs from the same R and v just by changing the order of the application of pair-Merge. Furthermore, we have showed that Japanese passive morphemes, which have the same morphology but behave syntactically differently, can be explained by the difference in the order of pair-Merge. On the other hand, we concluded that a type of "head-movement," such as V(INFL)-to-C, can be explained by simple Merge rather than pair-Merge.
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| Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements |
本研究の学術的意義は、言語器官の中核を担う統語システムの最小化・単純化を目指すことから人間言語の本質を解明することにある。人間言語の文法体系は表面的に複雑であり、言語間に違いが見られる。しかし人はどの言語を母語として獲得する場合でもおよそ3~４年という短い期間で大人と同じ文法を有することがこれまでの言語学研究により明らかとなっている。この事実は、人間言語の文法体系が短期間で獲得できるだけ単純であり、言語間に差がないということを示唆している。本研究で提示した提案が妥当であると示されれば、人間のあらゆる行動を支える言語の仕組みの解明に迫れるという点でその学術的意義は大きいと考える。
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