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¥4,030,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,100,000、Indirect Cost: ¥930,000)
Fiscal Year 2014: ¥780,000 (Direct Cost: ¥600,000、Indirect Cost: ¥180,000)
Fiscal Year 2013: ¥780,000 (Direct Cost: ¥600,000、Indirect Cost: ¥180,000)
Fiscal Year 2012: ¥780,000 (Direct Cost: ¥600,000、Indirect Cost: ¥180,000)
Fiscal Year 2011: ¥780,000 (Direct Cost: ¥600,000、Indirect Cost: ¥180,000)
Fiscal Year 2010: ¥910,000 (Direct Cost: ¥700,000、Indirect Cost: ¥210,000)
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| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
Based on the data in the World Atlas of Language Structures (WALS), it is argued that word-stress location correlates word order between head and complement.
The word orders in five categories, word (affix-stem), noun phrase (noun-genitive modifider), prepositional/postpositional phrase, (preposition/postposition-noun), verb phrase (verb-object) and subordinate clause, are investigated. As the category is larger, the ratio of languages with head-initial order is larger. Languages with word-initial stress tend to have head-final order while languages with word-final stress tend to have head-initial order. This tendency is statistically significant.
The correlation between word-stress location and head-complement order is explained in terms of cyclic movement of complement, which is constrained by the stress location of the head-final constituent.
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