Generality and Specificity of the Truncated Register in Maritime English
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24520533
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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 |
English linguistics
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| Research Institution | Tokyo University of Marine Science and Technology |
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Principal Investigator |
Fuji Masaaki 東京海洋大学, その他部局等, 教授 (30313381)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2012-04-01 – 2016-03-31
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| Project Status |
Completed (Fiscal Year 2015)
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| Budget Amount *help |
¥1,040,000 (Direct Cost: ¥800,000、Indirect Cost: ¥240,000)
Fiscal Year 2014: ¥390,000 (Direct Cost: ¥300,000、Indirect Cost: ¥90,000)
Fiscal Year 2013: ¥130,000 (Direct Cost: ¥100,000、Indirect Cost: ¥30,000)
Fiscal Year 2012: ¥520,000 (Direct Cost: ¥400,000、Indirect Cost: ¥120,000)
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| Keywords | 繋辞脱落 / レジスター / 動的文法理論 / 海事英語 / 擬似等位接続詞 / 含意普遍 / 過程説 / 言語習得 / 可能な文法への過程説的アプローチ / 繋辞省略 / 短縮レジスター / be動詞削除 / 繋辞削除 / AAVE / 言語使用域 / nonsentential / root infinitive / SMCP / 命令応答表現 / 主節現象 |
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| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
It is generally believed that function words in Maritime English can be absent freely, but this study has shown that there are at least three environments in which a copula cannot be absent: (1) when the subject is a pronoun, (2) when the subject is a DP headed by the definite article, and (3) when it is inside a subordinate clause.
Further, it has been shown that the copula drop in so-called truncated registers in English are constrained by the same implicational hierarchy that the previous typological studies have found, i.e., NP>AP>VP.
Finally, it has been pointed out that this implicational universal resembles an implicational universal on conjoinable categories, i.e., NP>AP>CP, and this similarity begs for explanation. A conjecture has been put forth stating that both universal hierarchies are dynamically formed following the time-stability scale with NP and CP as its extreme ends.
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Report
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Research Products
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