| 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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| 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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