Iconicity in language use: Crosslinguistic studies on constructions used to describe causal relations
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19K00565
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Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
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Allocation Type | Multi-year Fund |
Section | 一般 |
Review Section |
Basic Section 02060:Linguistics-related
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Research Institution | Keio University (2021) 防衛大学校(総合教育学群、人文社会科学群、応用科学群、電気情報学群及びシステム工学群) (2019-2020) |
Principal Investigator |
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Project Period (FY) |
2019-04-01 – 2022-03-31
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Project Status |
Completed (Fiscal Year 2021)
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Budget Amount *help |
¥4,420,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,400,000、Indirect Cost: ¥1,020,000)
Fiscal Year 2021: ¥1,950,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,500,000、Indirect Cost: ¥450,000)
Fiscal Year 2020: ¥1,950,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,500,000、Indirect Cost: ¥450,000)
Fiscal Year 2019: ¥520,000 (Direct Cost: ¥400,000、Indirect Cost: ¥120,000)
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Keywords | アイコニシティ / 因果関係 / 使役 / 言語類型論 / 意味論 / 構文 / 心理言語学 / ビデオ実験 / 形態統語論 / 言語学 |
Outline of Research at the Start |
言語現象のアイコニシティの原理によると、意味的に密接な関係(例:より直接的な因果関係)を表すのには形態統語的に結合度の高い構文が使われ、意味的に離れた関係(例:より間接的な因果関係)を表すのには形態統語的に結合度の低い構文が使われる傾向がある。本研究は、事象の因果関係の直接性の諸要因をアイコニックに反映してどのようなタイプの構文が使われ易いか、どの程度アイコニシティの原理の妥当性を支持していると言えるか、そして言語間にどのような構文の形態統語的結合度の違いが見られるかを、ビデオ実験や質問票を使い、より多くの言語を調査し、類似点と相違点の要因を解明する。
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Outline of Final Research Achievements |
Using descriptions by experiment participants’ of video clips depicting causal events as well as their acceptability judgements of the sentences that my consultants and I prepared as sentences describing the video clips, the present study investigated the issue of how factors of directness of causation are iconically reflected in the degrees of the morphosyntactic integration of the constructions used to describe the events. It found an overall tendency toward iconicity though there were some crosslinguistic differences in the effects of specific factors on the choice of constructions. As output from this research, I organized a theme session ("Causation in discourse and cognition: Crosslinguistic perspectives") at an international conference, gave conference presentations, and published papers.
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Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements |
意味的な関係の密接さとそれを表すのに使われる構文の形態統語的結合度とのアイコニシティは、従来の研究は文法書に記述されている例を使う傾向があり、この現象を文脈の中で体系的にとらえることが困難であった。本研究は、この問題を、(1) 日本語、シダーマ語、クプサビニィ語等複数の言語を扱い、(2) 実験という統一した文脈における言語使用において、(3) 数量的データを使って検証し、論文や発表という形で国際的に成果を発表している。また他の研究者が利用できるような方法で研究未開発の言語のデータを提示している点で、社会的にも意義がある。
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Report
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Research Products
(47 results)
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[Journal Article] Chapter 14: Sidaama2022
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Kawachi, Kazuhiro
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Journal Title
In Wakjira, Bedilu, Ronny Meyer, Yvonne Treis, and Zelealem Leyew (eds.) The Oxford Handbook of Ethiopian Languages. Oxford University Press.
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[Journal Article] Chapter 16: Sidaama.2020
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Kawachi, Kazuhiro
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Tasaku Tsunoda (ed.) Mermaid Constructions: A Compound-Predicate Construction with Biclausal Appearance.
Volume: 1
Pages: 679-733
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[Journal Article] Chapter 14: Sidaama.2020
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Kawachi, Kazuhiro
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Wakjira, Bedilu, Ronny Meyer, Yvonne Treis, and Zelealem Leyew (eds.) The Oxford Handbook of Ethiopian Languages.
Volume: 1
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[Presentation] Causative at the syntax-semantics interface2021
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Bohnemeyer, Juergen, Erika Bellingham, Andrea Arino, Jing Milly Du, James Essegbey, Stephanie Evers, Saima Hafeez, Iraide Ibarretxe-Antunano, Pia Jarnefelt, Kazuhiro Kawachi, Thomas Fuyin Li, Yu Li, Magali; Lopez Cortez, Guillermo Montero-Melis, Tatiana Nikitina, Sang-Hee Park, Anastasia Stepanova
Organizer
University at Buffalo Semantic Typology Lab Department of Linguistics at the State University of New York at Buffalo
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[Presentation] The encoding of causal chains across languages.2020
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Bohnemeyer, Juergen, Erika Bellingham, Pia Jarnevelt, Kazuhiro Kawachi, Yu Li, Alice Mitchell, Guillermo Montero-Melis, Sang-Hee Park, Anastasia Stepanova, and Emanuel Bylund
Organizer
94th Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America at Hilton New Orleans Riverside
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[Presentation] The semantic typology of causatives: New approaches to data collection and analysis.2019
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Bellingham, Erika, Pia Jarnevelt, Kazuhiro Kawachi, Yu Li, Alice Mitchell, Guillermo Montero-Melis, Sang-Hee Park, Anastasia Stepanova, Emanuel Bylund, and Juergen Bohnemeyer
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Association for Linguistic Typology 13th Biennial Conference at the University of Pavia, Italy
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[Presentation] A crosslinguistic experimental study of fourteen different paths: Toward a scale-based typology of motion event descriptions.2019
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Matsumoto, Yo, Anna Bordilovskaya, Kiyoko Eguchi, Kazuhiro Kawachi, Miho Mano, Takahiro Morita, Naonori Nagaya, Kiyoko Takahashi, and Yuko Yoshinari
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Association for Linguistic Typology 13th Biennial Conference at the University of Pavia, Italy
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Int'l Joint Research
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[Presentation] Modeling causative complexity across languages with the Interclausal Relations Hierarchy.2019
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Bellingham, Erika, Pia Jarnefelt, Kazuhiro Kawachi, Yu Li, Alice Mitchell, Guillermo Montero-Melis, Sang-Hee Park, Anastasia Stepanova, Emanuel Bylund, and Juergen Bohnemeyer
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15th Biannual International Conference on Role and Reference Grammar at the State University of New York at Buffalo
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Int'l Joint Research
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[Presentation] Introduction.2019
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Kawachi, Kazuhiro, Anja Latrouite, and Juergen Bohnemeyer
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15th International Cognitive Linguistics Conference at Kansai Gakuin University
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Int'l Joint Research
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