| Budget Amount *help |
¥5,070,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,900,000、Indirect Cost: ¥1,170,000)
Fiscal Year 2014: ¥1,300,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,000,000、Indirect Cost: ¥300,000)
Fiscal Year 2013: ¥1,170,000 (Direct Cost: ¥900,000、Indirect Cost: ¥270,000)
Fiscal Year 2012: ¥1,170,000 (Direct Cost: ¥900,000、Indirect Cost: ¥270,000)
Fiscal Year 2011: ¥1,430,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,100,000、Indirect Cost: ¥330,000)
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| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
Some modern Chinese verbs lose their original meanings and feature grammatical functions. This verb grammaticalization often brings the following results. 1) Prepositions emerge. 2) Causative and Passive structures are produced. 3) Some become complements giving specific meanings to main verbs. 4) Verb-origin complements showing the amount of some movement sometimes form reduplicative compound structures. These often affect one another and then; a) some combined verb structures occurred, b) particular sentence structures with both causative and passive functions appeared, and c) the meanings of some complements became more important than that of main verbs within sentences.
This has greatly influenced the modernization of Chinese and enables us to create sentences with more complicated contents.
To find out how forms, structures and functions change in Chinese, I did research on modern Chinese verbs both diachronically and synchronically and focused on the verb grammaticalization.
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