Toward the Understanding of the Semantic Interpretational Mechanism in Linguistic Expressions with Scalar Structures

Research Project

Project/Area Number	20720110
Research Category	Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)
Allocation Type	Single-year Grants
Research Field	Linguistics
Research Institution	Osaka Medical College
Principal Investigator	MINAMI Eri Osaka Medical College, 医学部, 講師 (40452685)
Project Period (FY)	2008 – 2009
Project Status	Completed (Fiscal Year 2009)
Budget Amount *help	¥2,730,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,100,000、Indirect Cost: ¥630,000) Fiscal Year 2009: ¥1,170,000 (Direct Cost: ¥900,000、Indirect Cost: ¥270,000) Fiscal Year 2008: ¥1,560,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,200,000、Indirect Cost: ¥360,000)
Keywords	意味論 / スケール構造 / 前置詞 / 変化述語 / 数量詞 / 前置詞句 / 派生的変化述語 / 差の解釈 / 非能格自動詞 / 移動様態 / スケール / 後置詞句
Research Abstract	This research project aims at elucidating how scale structures (a set of degrees) are manifested in the semantics of various linguistic expressions, including prepositions and verbs (especially change of state/location verbs). The analysis is given by the compositional semantics, which tries to map a syntactic structure directly to its semantic representation. The key to the analyses in both prepositions and verbs is the distribution of measure phrases.

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