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Alignment change and voice alternation in Japanese: A corpus based study

Research Project

Project/Area Number 19K00594
Research Category

Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)

Allocation TypeMulti-year Fund
Section一般
Review Section Basic Section 02060:Linguistics-related
Research InstitutionUniversity of Tsukuba

Principal Investigator

Yanagida Yuko  筑波大学, 人文社会系(名誉教授), 名誉教授 (20243818)

Project Period (FY) 2019-04-01 – 2024-03-31
Project Status Completed (Fiscal Year 2023)
Budget Amount *help
¥3,640,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,800,000、Indirect Cost: ¥840,000)
Fiscal Year 2021: ¥1,040,000 (Direct Cost: ¥800,000、Indirect Cost: ¥240,000)
Fiscal Year 2020: ¥1,040,000 (Direct Cost: ¥800,000、Indirect Cost: ¥240,000)
Fiscal Year 2019: ¥1,560,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,200,000、Indirect Cost: ¥360,000)
Keywordsアラインメント / 活格 / 心理使役交替 / 非典型的格表示 / ヴォイス / 非典型的格標示構文 / アラインメント変化 / 心理動詞 / 格変化 / 与格主語 / 心理述語 / 使役交代 / 格システム / 格システムの変化 / ヴォイス交替
Outline of Research at the Start

言語類型論、生成文法理論の観点から日本語における心理使役交替と呼ばれる現象に関してコーパスを用いて上代語から現代語まで調査する。この交替にヴォイスが関係していることを提案する。統語的には、この交替がVoicePによりライセンスされ、Voiceの変化が格システムの変化のトリガーになるという仮説をコーパスを用いた広範なデータを使用し実証研究を行う。

Outline of Final Research Achievements

This research focuses on changes in the case system from the perspective of linguistic typology, within the context of historical studies of the Japanese language. Cross-linguistically, changes in case systems are triggered by the historical alternation of voice (e.g., from accusative-type passive to ergative-type transitive verbs). Old Japanese (around the 8th century) exhibits characteristics of an active-stative case system. To clarify the relationship with voice during the process of change to the nominative-accusative system from the Heian period onward, I conducted an empirical study on how the case system changes by collecting large-scale data from the Corpus of Historical Japanese (National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics) and the Oxford-NINJAL Corpus of Old Japanese (National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics, University of Oxford).

Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements

我が国では日本語史は国語学の領域であり、日本語の枠内での伝統的な記述文法が主流である。言語類型論、生成文法理論の言語学的方法論を用いて日本語の古典資料を分析する試みは日本ではほとんど行われてこなかった。理論的枠組みを用いて古典資料の実証研究をすると、今まで日本語独自の変化として記述されてきた変化に、言語変化の一般性・普遍性に関わる現象が多く存在することがわかる。日本語は世界的にみても歴史資料のもっとも豊富な言語のひとつであり、言語学的視点から日本語史の実証研究を行う学術的意義は非常に大きい。

Report

(6 results)
  • 2023 Annual Research Report   Final Research Report ( PDF )
  • 2022 Research-status Report
  • 2021 Research-status Report
  • 2020 Research-status Report
  • 2019 Research-status Report
  • Research Products

    (11 results)

All 2024 2023 2022 2021 2020 2019

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

  • [Journal Article] The origin of dative subjects and psych predicate constructions in Japanese2022

    • Author(s)
      Yanagida Yuko
    • Journal Title

      Journal of Historical Linguistics

      Volume: 12 Issue: 2 Pages: 282-316

    • DOI

      10.1075/jhl.20023.yan

    • Related Report
      2022 Research-status Report 2021 Research-status Report
    • Peer Reviewed / Open Access
  • [Journal Article] Two types of alignment change in nominalizations2021

    • Author(s)
      Aldridge Edith and Yuko Yanagida
    • Journal Title

      Diachronica

      Volume: 38 Issue: 3 Pages: 314-357

    • DOI

      10.1075/dia.19044.ald

    • Related Report
      2021 Research-status Report
    • Peer Reviewed / Open Access / Int'l Joint Research
  • [Journal Article] Two types of alignment change in nominalizations: Austronesian and Japanese2021

    • Author(s)
      Aldridge Edith and Yuko Yanagida
    • Journal Title

      Diachronica:International Journal of Historical Linguistics

      Volume: -

    • Related Report
      2020 Research-status Report
    • Peer Reviewed / Int'l Joint Research
  • [Journal Article] Two types of alignment change in nominalization: Austronesian and Japanese2020

    • Author(s)
      Aldridge Edith & Yuko Yanagida
    • Journal Title

      Diachronica: International Journal of Historical Linguistics

      Volume: -

    • Related Report
      2019 Research-status Report
    • Peer Reviewed / Open Access / Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] The psych predicate alternation and alignment change:The case in Earlier Japanese2019

    • Author(s)
      Yuko Yanagida
    • Organizer
      The 24th International Conference on Historical Linguistics
    • Related Report
      2019 Research-status Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Book] Handbook of Historical Japanese Linguistics2024

    • Author(s)
      Bjarke Frellesvig and Satoshi Kinsui
    • Total Pages
      565
    • Publisher
      De Gruyter Mouton
    • Related Report
      2023 Annual Research Report
  • [Book] 言語理論・言語獲得論からみたキータームと名著解題2023

    • Author(s)
      遊佐典昭、小泉正利
    • Total Pages
      386
    • Publisher
      開拓者
    • Related Report
      2023 Annual Research Report
  • [Book] 言語理論・言語獲得理論から見たキータームと名著解題2023

    • Author(s)
      遊佐 典昭、小泉 政利、野村 忠央、増冨 和浩
    • Total Pages
      400
    • Publisher
      開拓社
    • ISBN
      9784758923828
    • Related Report
      2022 Research-status Report
  • [Book] Handbook of Historical Japanese Linguistics2023

    • Author(s)
      Frellesvig Bjarke and Satoshi Kinsui
    • Total Pages
      600
    • Publisher
      Mouton de Gruyter
    • ISBN
      1614514011
    • Related Report
      2022 Research-status Report
  • [Book] Handbook of Historical Japanese Linguistics2022

    • Author(s)
      Frellesvig, Bjarke, Satoshi, Kinsui & John Whitman
    • Publisher
      de Gruyter Mouton
    • Related Report
      2021 Research-status Report
  • [Book] Handbook of Historical Japanese Linguistics (B. Frellesvig, S. Kinsui & J. Whitman (eds.))2021

    • Author(s)
      Yuko Yanagida
    • Publisher
      De Gruyter Mouton
    • Related Report
      2020 Research-status Report

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Published: 2019-04-18   Modified: 2025-01-30  

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