| Project/Area Number |
24520546
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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 | Kagawa University |
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Principal Investigator |
NAGAO Satoshi 香川大学, 教育学部, 准教授 (30294739)
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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 |
¥1,170,000 (Direct Cost: ¥900,000、Indirect Cost: ¥270,000)
Fiscal Year 2014: ¥390,000 (Direct Cost: ¥300,000、Indirect Cost: ¥90,000)
Fiscal Year 2013: ¥390,000 (Direct Cost: ¥300,000、Indirect Cost: ¥90,000)
Fiscal Year 2012: ¥390,000 (Direct Cost: ¥300,000、Indirect Cost: ¥90,000)
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| Keywords | 英語史 / 文法化 / 構文文法 / 認知文法 / アスペクト / 近代英語 / 進行形 / 認知意味論 / コーパス / 意味変化 / 構文変化 / 後期近代英語 / 認知意味 |
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| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
This study is on the grammaticalization paths of Early & Late Modern English progressive forms, the usage of which is said to be established in as late as the Present-Day English Period. From the perspectives of Cognitive Linguistics and English Historical Linguistics, the paths are characterized both by structural and semantic factors and by lexical factors forming the progressive constructions. Observations on the functional classification of verbs and on formative factors of constructions show expanding productivity of English progressive forms: from intransitive to transitive constructions. The data are driven mainly from the Helsinki Corpus and Bible English. It was a plan to make Late Modern English Corpus by myself, but did not come true, which made this study a smaller observation than I expected. Parts of the results of this study were compiled in the book "Studies on Modern English" written in Japanese.
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