On Meanings and Usages of Path Prepositions
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21520497
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Research Field |
English linguistics
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| Research Institution | Tohoku University |
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Principal Investigator |
ASAKAWA Teruo 東北大学, 高等教育開発推進センター, 教授 (50101522)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2009 – 2011
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| Project Status |
Completed (Fiscal Year 2011)
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| Budget Amount *help |
¥2,600,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,000,000、Indirect Cost: ¥600,000)
Fiscal Year 2011: ¥780,000 (Direct Cost: ¥600,000、Indirect Cost: ¥180,000)
Fiscal Year 2010: ¥780,000 (Direct Cost: ¥600,000、Indirect Cost: ¥180,000)
Fiscal Year 2009: ¥1,040,000 (Direct Cost: ¥800,000、Indirect Cost: ¥240,000)
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| Keywords | preposition / out / across / path / 認知意味論 / 経路 / 前置詞 / 動的文法理論 / 意味論 |
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| Research Abstract |
Semantic investigation of Path Prepositions in English has revealed that Path Prepositional phrase[PNP] such as up/down the tree, along the river, around the ground, across the street, through the tunnel, has the following semantic properties :(a)The trajectory Path is contained within the Landmark NP,(b)The preposition P expresses a directed line of motion with respect to the Landmark,(c)The way the trajectory Path goes depends on geometric description of the Landmark, and(d)The landmark functions as Passage. Through the cooperation of both the grammatical properties of Path Prepositions and human cognitive principles, it was also revealed that a novel path prepositional phrase[out NP] is introduced into the grammar dynamically through a few developing stages, and that the prototypical moving path line of the preposition across is extended into different shapes of moving lines, maintaining all the properties[A]-[D] without change.
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