A Top-down Approach to Anaphora

• Project/Area Number: 25370552
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: English linguistics
• Research Institution: Osaka Kyoiku University
• Principal Investigator: Terada Hiroshi 大阪教育大学, 教育学部, 教授 (90263805)
• Project Period (FY): 2013-04-01 – 2017-03-31
• Project Status: Completed (Fiscal Year 2016)
• Budget Amount: ¥4,680,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,600,000、Indirect Cost: ¥1,080,000); Fiscal Year 2016: ¥650,000 (Direct Cost: ¥500,000、Indirect Cost: ¥150,000); Fiscal Year 2015: ¥650,000 (Direct Cost: ¥500,000、Indirect Cost: ¥150,000); Fiscal Year 2014: ¥1,040,000 (Direct Cost: ¥800,000、Indirect Cost: ¥240,000); Fiscal Year 2013: ¥2,340,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,800,000、Indirect Cost: ¥540,000)
• Keywords: 生成文法 / ミニマリスト・プログラム / 移動のコピー理論 / トップダウン派生 / 照応形 / 代名詞 / 一致操作 / 束縛 / 先行詞 / 同一指示 / 付票貼付 / フェイズ / 再帰代名詞

Outline of Final Research Achievements

This research adopted the framework of generative grammar to explore pronominal anaphora within an approach to the computation of human language, according to which sentence structure is built up in a top-down fashion. The aim of this research was threefold:
(1) It considered the appropriateness of analyses in which an anaphor is replaced by a pronoun when the latter is stressed. (2) It pointed out potential problems with Cecchetto and Donati’s (2010) claim that the reference of a pronoun is determined as a result of a labeling process. (3) It considered the validity of an alternative theory in which movement of part of an antecedent creates a copy and the copy serves as a pronoun that refers back to the antecedent.

Research Products

• [Journal Article] 代ファイ句と代名詞句と代動詞句 (2017)
  • Author(s): 寺田 寛
  • Journal Title: 大阪教育大学英文学会誌 Volume: 62 Pages: 17-34
  • Acknowledgement Compliant
• [Journal Article] Carlo Cecchetto and Caterina Donati, (Re)labeling, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2015. Xiii+190pp. (2016)
  • Author(s): 寺田 寛
  • Journal Title: 英文学研究 Volume: 93 Pages: 219-226
  • Peer Reviewed
• [Journal Article] 代名詞は誤った付票を貼るか？ (2016)
  • Author(s): 寺田 寛
  • Journal Title: 大阪教育大学英文学会誌 Volume: 61 Pages: 15-30
  • NAID: 40020807458
  • Open Access / Acknowledgement Compliant
• [Journal Article] 「himと’imとHIMの局所領域」 (2015)
  • Author(s): 寺田 寛
  • Journal Title: 『大阪教育大学英文学会誌』 Volume: 60 Pages: 13-25
  • NAID: 40020362095
  • Open Access / Acknowledgement Compliant
• [Journal Article] 「英語の純粋照応形」 (2014)
  • Author(s): 寺田 寛
  • Journal Title: 『大阪教育大学英文学会誌』 Volume: 59 Pages: 49-62
• [Journal Article] 「私の一冊：照応形はフェイズ内部でφ素性の値を付与されねばならない：束縛条件Aを廃止する試み Fredrik Heinat, Probes, Pronouns and Binding in the Minimalist Program, Saarbrucken: VDM Verlag Dr. Müller, 2008. iii+174pp.」 (2013)
  • Author(s): 寺田 寛
  • Journal Title: 『英文学研究支部統合号、関西英文学会第7号』 Volume: ６
  • Peer Reviewed
• [Presentation] 部分摘出におけるwh一致現象について (2016)
  • Author(s): 寺田 寛
  • Organizer: 日本英文学会関西支部第11回大会
  • Place of Presentation: 神戸市外国語大学
  • Invited
• [Book] 徹底比較 日本語文法と英文法 （第2章「名詞と代名詞」） (2016)
  • Author(s): 寺田寛（共著者：畠山雄二、平田一郎、岸本秀樹、本田謙介、田中江扶、今仁生美）
  • Total Pages: 24
  • Publisher: くろしお出版