| Budget Amount *help |
¥4,550,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,500,000、Indirect Cost: ¥1,050,000)
Fiscal Year 2017: ¥1,170,000 (Direct Cost: ¥900,000、Indirect Cost: ¥270,000)
Fiscal Year 2016: ¥780,000 (Direct Cost: ¥600,000、Indirect Cost: ¥180,000)
Fiscal Year 2015: ¥910,000 (Direct Cost: ¥700,000、Indirect Cost: ¥210,000)
Fiscal Year 2014: ¥1,040,000 (Direct Cost: ¥800,000、Indirect Cost: ¥240,000)
Fiscal Year 2013: ¥650,000 (Direct Cost: ¥500,000、Indirect Cost: ¥150,000)
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| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
This study examined the developmental course of acquiring possessive sentences in English and Japanese based on naturalistic data and cross-sectional experimental data.We have proposed the following hypotheses concerning the meaning of possession: in the course of English language development, the meaning of the “have” possessive sentence extends from the relation of the possessor's proximity to that of typical possession; in the case of Japanese, the meaning of an aru “be” possessive sentence extends the relation of the whole and a part to that of the possessor and the possessee. The meaning of a motteru “have” possessive sentence expresses first carrying and then possessing, whose meaning is derived from the former meaning. We have argued that the acquisition of concept possession, a one-to-one mapping of form and meaning and dynamic or developmental principles sensitive to the present grammar can underlie the acquisition of possessive sentences in Japanese.
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