A Comparative Study of VP Ellipsis in Japanese and English
Project/Area Number |
22520513
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Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
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Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
Section | 一般 |
Research Field |
English linguistics
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Research Institution | Kyoto Sangyo University |
Principal Investigator |
TAKAHASHI Mari 京都産業大学, 外国語学部, 教授 (20247779)
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Project Period (FY) |
2010-04-01 – 2015-03-31
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Project Status |
Completed (Fiscal Year 2014)
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Budget Amount *help |
¥3,250,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,500,000、Indirect Cost: ¥750,000)
Fiscal Year 2014: ¥520,000 (Direct Cost: ¥400,000、Indirect Cost: ¥120,000)
Fiscal Year 2013: ¥650,000 (Direct Cost: ¥500,000、Indirect Cost: ¥150,000)
Fiscal Year 2012: ¥650,000 (Direct Cost: ¥500,000、Indirect Cost: ¥150,000)
Fiscal Year 2011: ¥780,000 (Direct Cost: ¥600,000、Indirect Cost: ¥180,000)
Fiscal Year 2010: ¥650,000 (Direct Cost: ¥500,000、Indirect Cost: ¥150,000)
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Keywords | 日本語 / 英語 / 省略 / 動詞句 / 文脈照応 / 言語学 |
Outline of Final Research Achievements |
VP ellipsis is an extreme form of phonological reduction signaling the presence of a discourse anaphor. It is brought about by the phonological deletion of a VP which contains all the lexical materials to be interpreted, derived in the same way as non-deleted VPs. In order for VP ellipsis to be licensed, the deleted VP must be contained in a constituent α which has an antecedent β with an identical interpretation except for the contribution of a contrastive-focused constituent within α. This study shows, based on experiments using constructions containing VPs headed by a free verb as test sentences, that Japanese has the same phenomenon as the English VP ellipsis, licensed under the same conditions. It also shows that Japanese VP-elided phrases receive different types of interpretations from VPs containing a null object, indicating that the two constructions have different structures.
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