| Budget Amount *help |
¥5,070,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,900,000、Indirect Cost: ¥1,170,000)
Fiscal Year 2013: ¥1,300,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,000,000、Indirect Cost: ¥300,000)
Fiscal Year 2012: ¥1,560,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,200,000、Indirect Cost: ¥360,000)
Fiscal Year 2011: ¥2,210,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,700,000、Indirect Cost: ¥510,000)
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| Research Abstract |
The investigation based on historical corpora has revealed that object-verb (OV) order was lost in the 14th century in finite clauses (except for a certain class of objects), while it was retained until the 16th century in infinitival clauses. It has been concluded that infinitival clauses retained the structure without functional categories, so that surface OV order could be derived by leftward movement of objects from underlying verb-object (VO) order, even after the loss of underlying OV order in the 14th century (which caused the loss of surface OV order in finite clauses). Then in the 16th century, infinitival clauses established the structure with functional categories, where leftward movement of objects is impossible, thereby leading to the loss of surface OV order.
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