Semantic Study of the Organization of Multilayered Perspectives and Universal Meaning of "Suru" in Japanese

• Project/Area Number: 25370447
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Linguistics
• Research Institution: Doshisha University
• Principal Investigator: Yamamori Yoshie 同志社大学, グローバル・コミュニケーション学部, 教授 (70252814)
• Project Period (FY): 2013-04-01 – 2017-03-31
• Project Status: Completed (Fiscal Year 2016)
• Budget Amount: ¥4,810,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,700,000、Indirect Cost: ¥1,110,000); Fiscal Year 2016: ¥1,040,000 (Direct Cost: ¥800,000、Indirect Cost: ¥240,000); Fiscal Year 2015: ¥1,300,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,000,000、Indirect Cost: ¥300,000); Fiscal Year 2014: ¥1,300,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,000,000、Indirect Cost: ¥300,000); Fiscal Year 2013: ¥1,170,000 (Direct Cost: ¥900,000、Indirect Cost: ¥270,000)
• Keywords: スル / パースペクテイブ・シフト / 多値論理 / 命題概念 / ガ-デンパス効果 / temporal unboundedness / パースペクテイブ / genericity / パースペクテｲブ・シフト / ガーデン・パス文 / 未来時制 / パースペクテｲブ / ガーデンパス文 / ガーデンパス効果 / パースペクト

Outline of Final Research Achievements

This study compares the simple present form (known as the ru form) with the inflected form (ta form) in Japanese, based on their semantic characteristics. Japanese activity verbs ending in ru are ambiguous with respect to being read as future or habitual in the matrix clauses and past in the subordinate clauses. We investigate the question of how such an ambiguity/multiple readings can arise for verbs ending in ru. We pursue this question by assuming that ru plays a role to make a sentence in which ru appears denote propositional concept and show that verbs ending in ru express state of affirs temporally unbounded to some specific time in the actual world, that is generic tense’in the sense of Dahl(1975).

Research Products

• [Journal Article] 状態性述語におけるル形とタ形の分布と意味的制約 (2016)
  • Author(s): 山森良枝
  • Journal Title: 9th International Conference on Practical Linguistics of Japanese (ICPJL) Conference Handbook Volume: -
  • Peer Reviewed / Open Access / Acknowledgement Compliant
• [Journal Article] (Non)genericityとテンスの形式 (2016)
  • Author(s): 山森良枝
  • Journal Title: 第33回日本認知科学会大会発表論文集 Volume: -33 Pages: 534-541
  • Peer Reviewed / Open Access / Acknowledgement Compliant
• [Journal Article] The Effect of Present Activity Verbs on Processing Structural Ambiguity in Japanese Garden-path Sentences (2016)
  • Author(s): Yoshie Yamamori
  • Journal Title: Journal of Cognitive Science Volume: 17-3 Pages: 469-497
  • Peer Reviewed / Open Access / Acknowledgement Compliant
• [Journal Article] 武内道子著『手続き的意味論－談話連結語の意味論と語用論－』(書評論文） (2016)
  • Author(s): 山森良枝
  • Journal Title: 日本語文法 Volume: 16-2 Pages: 153-161
  • Peer Reviewed
• [Journal Article] ｢中国語の結果複合動詞について―日本語の結果複合動詞との対照から―｣ (2016)
  • Author(s): 山森良枝
  • Journal Title: 『GR―同志社大学グローバル地域文化学会・紀要―』 Volume: 1 Pages: 69-96
  • NAID: 40020772632
  • Peer Reviewed / Acknowledgement Compliant
• [Journal Article] ｢前提の投射におけるleft-right asymmetryと「Pかもしれない」について」 (2015)
  • Author(s): 山森良枝
  • Journal Title: 『第32回日本認知科学会大会発表論文集』 Volume: 1 Pages: 670-679
  • Peer Reviewed / Open Access / Acknowledgement Compliant
• [Journal Article] “The Effect of Present Activity Verbs on Processing Structural Ambiguity in Japanese Garden-path Sentences” (2015)
  • Author(s): Yoshie Yamamori
  • Journal Title: Gabriella Airenti, Bruno G. Bara and Guiulio Sandini (eds) Proceedings of the EuroAsianPacific Joint Conference on Cognitive Science Volume: 1 Pages: 526-531
  • Peer Reviewed / Open Access / Acknowledgement Compliant
• [Journal Article] 基本形の論理特性と文の構造的曖昧性の処理 (2014)
  • Author(s): 山森良枝
  • Journal Title: 第31回日本認知科学会大会発表論文集 Volume: 31 Pages: 311-317
  • NAID: 40020241376
  • Peer Reviewed / Open Access / Acknowledgement Compliant
• [Journal Article] 語用論的括弧について (2014)
  • Author(s): 山森良枝
  • Journal Title: ICPJL8 Conference Handbook Volume: 1 Pages: 116-119
  • Peer Reviewed
• [Presentation] (Non)genericityとテンスの形式 (2016)
  • Author(s): 山森良枝
  • Organizer: 第33回日本認知科学会
  • Place of Presentation: 北海道大学, 北海道札幌市
  • Year and Date: 2016-09-16
• [Presentation] 状態性述語におけるル形とタ形の分布と意味的制約 (2016)
  • Author(s): 山森良枝
  • Organizer: The 9th International Conference on Practical Linguistics of Japanese
  • Place of Presentation: San Francisco State University, San Francisco
  • Year and Date: 2016-06-04
  • Int'l Joint Research
• [Presentation] “The Effect of Present Activity Verbs on Processing Structural Ambiguity in Japanese Garden-path Sentences” (2015)
  • Author(s): Yoshie Yamamori
  • Organizer: EuroAsianPacific Joint Conference on Cognitive Science (the 4th European Conference on Cognitive Science, 11th International Conference on Cognitive Science)
  • Place of Presentation: University of Torino
  • Year and Date: 2015-09-26
  • Int'l Joint Research
• [Presentation] ｢前提の投射におけるleft-right asymmetryと「Pかもしれない」について｣ (2015)
  • Author(s): 山森良枝
  • Organizer: 第32回日本認知科学会
  • Place of Presentation: 千葉大学
  • Year and Date: 2015-09-20
• [Presentation] 基本形の論理特性と文の構造的曖昧性の処理 (2014)
  • Author(s): 山森良枝
  • Organizer: 日本認知科学会
  • Place of Presentation: 名古屋大学
  • Year and Date: 2014-09-17 – 2014-09-19
• [Presentation] 語用論的括弧について (2014)
  • Author(s): 山森良枝
  • Organizer: 第8回 日本語実用言語学国際会議
  • Place of Presentation: 国立国語研究所
• [Book] パ-スペクティブ・シフトと混合話法 (2015)
  • Author(s): 山森良枝
  • Total Pages: 192
  • Publisher: ひつじ書房
• [Book] パ-スペクト・シフトと混合話法 (2014)
  • Author(s): 山森良枝
  • Total Pages: 224
  • Publisher: ひつじ書房
• [Funded Workshop] The 27th European Summer School of Logic, Language and Information (2015)
  • Place of Presentation: Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona
  • Year and Date: 2015-08-03