| Project/Area Number |
25770186
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)
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| Allocation Type | Multi-year Fund |
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| Research Field |
English linguistics
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| Research Institution | Toho University |
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Principal Investigator |
OSAWA Mai 東邦大学, 薬学部, 講師 (70610830)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2013-04-01 – 2016-03-31
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| Project Status |
Completed (Fiscal Year 2015)
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| Budget Amount *help |
¥1,820,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,400,000、Indirect Cost: ¥420,000)
Fiscal Year 2015: ¥520,000 (Direct Cost: ¥400,000、Indirect Cost: ¥120,000)
Fiscal Year 2014: ¥650,000 (Direct Cost: ¥500,000、Indirect Cost: ¥150,000)
Fiscal Year 2013: ¥650,000 (Direct Cost: ¥500,000、Indirect Cost: ¥150,000)
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| Keywords | 意味役割 / by句 / 動作主 / 原因 / 語用論 / 受身文 / 日英語比較 |
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| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
This study mainly investigated the adequacy of an assumed presupposition that a by-phrase occurring in a passive sentence always introduces an agent argument. In particular, this study (1) pointed out the possibility that the semantic roles of the argument of a by-phrase in a passive sentence can be divided into Agent and Cause, after surveying several previous studies, (2) tried to find out if the comparison of "ni" and "ni totte" phrases in Japanese passive sentences to by-phrases in English passive sentences can support the validity of this classification of the semantic roles, and (3) surveyed two kinds of semantic role theories, Uniformity of Theta Assignment Hypothesis and Proto-Roles Hypothesis, to figure out which hypothesis can fully explain about the semantic role of the argument of a by-phrase in a passive sentence .
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