| Project/Area Number |
24520433
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
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| Allocation Type | Multi-year Fund |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Research Field |
Linguistics
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| Research Institution | Saga University |
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Principal Investigator |
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| Project Period (FY) |
2012-04-01 – 2015-03-31
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| Project Status |
Completed (Fiscal Year 2014)
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| Budget Amount *help |
¥2,470,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,900,000、Indirect Cost: ¥570,000)
Fiscal Year 2014: ¥780,000 (Direct Cost: ¥600,000、Indirect Cost: ¥180,000)
Fiscal Year 2013: ¥780,000 (Direct Cost: ¥600,000、Indirect Cost: ¥180,000)
Fiscal Year 2012: ¥910,000 (Direct Cost: ¥700,000、Indirect Cost: ¥210,000)
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| Keywords | 焦点 / 情報構造 / 分裂文 / 倒置構文 / 指定文 / 措定文 / 変項名詞句 / 代名詞 / 倒置指定文 / 措定文の倒置形 / 同一性文 / 叙述名詞句 / 提示文 / 同定文 |
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| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
Within the field of focus marking constructions, I have paid special attention to cleft sentences, specificational sentences and inversion in English and Japanese, and investigated their semantic and pragmatic functions. Not only information structure but also semantic functions of different types of NPs (cf. Nishiyama 2003) need to be accounted for to clarify the concept of focus. Specifically, I have shown: (1) the essential function of specification is the assignment of a value to a variable, which cannot be reduced to the function of predication or of equation; (2) the focus of specificational sentences is defined in terms of the contrast between the selected and non-selected values while that of inversion is defined in terms of the relative discourse familiarity of the elements in the sentence; (3) the it-cleft and the that-cleft perform different semantic functions; the former assigns a value while the latter confirms the identity of the value which has already been assigned.
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