| Budget Amount *help |
¥2,600,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,000,000、Indirect Cost: ¥600,000)
Fiscal Year 2015: ¥390,000 (Direct Cost: ¥300,000、Indirect Cost: ¥90,000)
Fiscal Year 2014: ¥650,000 (Direct Cost: ¥500,000、Indirect Cost: ¥150,000)
Fiscal Year 2013: ¥390,000 (Direct Cost: ¥300,000、Indirect Cost: ¥90,000)
Fiscal Year 2012: ¥1,170,000 (Direct Cost: ¥900,000、Indirect Cost: ¥270,000)
|
|---|
| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
It is known that Japanese simplex verbs can create their own derived nouns in a systematic way, where accentual property associated with each verb (accented or unaccented) is automatically transmitted to its derived noun. The present study focuses on why it is that compound verbs, although they appear and behave as being accented, can have only unaccented derived nouns. It is to be argued that that the apparent accent (characterized by pitch drop in Japanese) observed in compound verbs is not lexically specified or inherent but introduced by the morpho-phpnological constraint that requires that compound words (either nouns or verbs) should be accented. That is why derived nouns from compound verbs are systematically unaccented: there is no lexical accentin compound verbs. The process is similar to the process thatloanwords undergo: loanwords are treated as a sequence of sounds, which will have default accent when they are incorporated into Japanese.
|
