A Theoretical and Empirical Study of the Identity Conditions on Deletion

• Project/Area Number: 25770181
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Research Field: English linguistics
• Research Institution: University of Fukui
• Principal Investigator: NAKAMURA Taichi 福井大学, 教育地域科学部, 講師 (00613275)
• Project Period (FY): 2013-04-01 – 2015-03-31
• Project Status: Completed (Fiscal Year 2014)
• Budget Amount: ¥1,820,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,400,000、Indirect Cost: ¥420,000); Fiscal Year 2014: ¥780,000 (Direct Cost: ¥600,000、Indirect Cost: ¥180,000); Fiscal Year 2013: ¥1,040,000 (Direct Cost: ¥800,000、Indirect Cost: ¥240,000)
• Keywords: 英語の省略現象 / 統語的同一性

Outline of Final Research Achievements

Under the framework of the Minimalist Program, this research critically examined the syntactic identity conditions that previous studies have argued apply to ellipsis phenomena. It is demonstrated that among those conditions those of category and morphosyntactic identity are theoretically and empirically questionable. It is then pointed out that those two conditions are rather attributable to the requirements of semantic identity and parallelism.

Research Products

• [Journal Article] An Argument Structure Alternation of Psych Verbs under VP-Deletion (2015)
  • Author(s): Kenji Sugimoto, Taichi Nakamura
  • Journal Title: JELS Volume: 32 Pages: 132-138
  • NAID: 40020723069
  • Acknowledgement Compliant
• [Journal Article] VP-Deletion, Parallelism, and the Role of Aux: A Phase-Theoretic Approach (2015)
  • Author(s): Masako Maeda, Taichi Nakamura
  • Journal Title: JELS Volume: 32 Pages: 297-302
  • NAID: 40020723441
  • Acknowledgement Compliant
• [Journal Article] Voice Mismatches in Sloppy VP Ellipsis (2013)
  • Author(s): Taichi Nakamura
  • Journal Title: Linguistic Inquiry Volume: 44 Issue: 3 Pages: 519-528
  • DOI: 10.1162/ling_a_00137
  • Peer Reviewed
• [Journal Article] Semantic Identity and Deletion (2013)
  • Author(s): Taichi Nakamura
  • Journal Title: English Linguistics Volume: 30 Pages: 643-658
  • NAID: 130006088738
  • Peer Reviewed
• [Presentation] VP削除からみた心理動詞の項交替 (2014)
  • Author(s): 椙本顕士、中村太一
  • Organizer: 日本英語学会第32回大会
  • Place of Presentation: 学習院大学
  • Year and Date: 2014-11-08 – 2014-11-09
• [Presentation] VP-Deletion, Parallelism, and the Role of Aux: A Phase-Theoretic Approach (2014)
  • Author(s): Masako Maeda, Taichi Nakamura
  • Organizer: The English Linguistic Society of Japan 7th International Spring Forum
  • Place of Presentation: Doshisha University, Imadegawa Campus
• [Presentation] 省略に課せられる同一性条件から考える統語と意味のインターフェイス (2014)
  • Author(s): 中村太一
  • Organizer: 日本英文学会第86回大会
  • Place of Presentation: 北海道大学札幌キャンパス高等教育推進機構
• [Presentation] 動詞句削除の vP 領域における VP 話題化移動分析 (2013)
  • Author(s): 前田雅子、中村太一
  • Organizer: 日本英文学会九州支部第66回大会
  • Place of Presentation: 鹿児島国際大学