Rethinking "copulas" in sentence-final positions

Research Project

Project/Area Number	25580092
Research Category	Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Exploratory Research
Allocation Type	Multi-year Fund
Research Field	Linguistics
Research Institution	Reitaku University
Principal Investigator	ONO HITOMI 麗澤大学, 外国語学部, 教授 (70245273)
Project Period (FY)	2013-04-01 – 2016-03-31
Project Status	Completed (Fiscal Year 2015)
Budget Amount *help	¥3,640,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,800,000、Indirect Cost: ¥840,000) Fiscal Year 2015: ¥1,300,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,000,000、Indirect Cost: ¥300,000) Fiscal Year 2014: ¥1,170,000 (Direct Cost: ¥900,000、Indirect Cost: ¥270,000) Fiscal Year 2013: ¥1,170,000 (Direct Cost: ¥900,000、Indirect Cost: ¥270,000)
Keywords	談話 / コピュラ / 文末 / 情報構造 / 言語学 / 談話研究 / 文法
Outline of Final Research Achievements	This study has investigated the behaviors of the copula-like morphemes, "'a" in G\|ui (a Khoe family) and "da" in Japanese, with text-level data, redefining them as identifiers which require only one NP not as copulas which copulate two NPs, in order to find what grammatical and pragmatic phenomena are shared between them, and shown how they link information outside the sentences they are put in to them.

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