| Budget Amount *help |
¥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)
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| 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).
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