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Possibilities of Multidominance Structures in Generative Grammar

Research Project

Project/Area Number 26580086
Research Category

Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Exploratory Research

Allocation TypeMulti-year Fund
Research Field English linguistics
Research InstitutionKyushu Institute of Technology

Principal Investigator

Toyoshima Takashi  九州工業大学, 教養教育院, 教授 (40311857)

Project Period (FY) 2014-04-01 – 2017-03-31
Project Status Completed (Fiscal Year 2016)
Budget Amount *help
¥2,730,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,100,000、Indirect Cost: ¥630,000)
Fiscal Year 2016: ¥910,000 (Direct Cost: ¥700,000、Indirect Cost: ¥210,000)
Fiscal Year 2015: ¥1,040,000 (Direct Cost: ¥800,000、Indirect Cost: ¥240,000)
Fiscal Year 2014: ¥780,000 (Direct Cost: ¥600,000、Indirect Cost: ¥180,000)
Keywords生成文法 / 極小主義 / 多重支配 / 統語構造 / グラフ理論 / 線状化 / 併合操作 / 投射ラベル / 言語学 / 多重支配構造 / 等位接続 / 意味論 / 選言 / 存在量化 / 疑問 / 右枝節点上昇 / 併合
Outline of Final Research Achievements

The Merge operation in the current Minimalist Program of the Generative Grammar has the following three minimal conditions, except for the cases of head movement, which is controversial: a) one of the input term is a root category, b) the other input term is either a maximal projection or a minimal projection, and c) the output is a root category. The controversial head movement can also be brought under the same three minimal conditions if a head moves into a specifier as ‘substitution,’ and multidominance structures can also be generated as a natural consequence, obeying the three conditions.
Furthermore, it is explicated that in the latest framework of the labeling algorithm where projection labels are derivationally determined by the algorithm, phonological linearization is possible by graph-theoretical tree traversal algorithms after pruning multi-dominating branches.

Report

(4 results)
  • 2016 Annual Research Report   Final Research Report ( PDF )
  • 2015 Research-status Report
  • 2014 Research-status Report
  • Research Products

    (3 results)

All 2016 2015

All Presentation (2 results) (of which Int'l Joint Research: 1 results,  Invited: 1 results) Book (1 results)

  • [Presentation] Phonological Significance of Bare Phrase Structure Labels for Linearization2016

    • Author(s)
      Takashi Toyoshima
    • Organizer
      日本英語学会第34回大会
    • Place of Presentation
      金沢大学(石川県・金沢市)
    • Year and Date
      2016-11-13
    • Related Report
      2016 Annual Research Report
    • Invited
  • [Presentation] Quexjunction: Japanese Questions are Disjunctions (, as well as Existentials)2015

    • Author(s)
      Takashi Toyoshima
    • Organizer
      The International Workshop ‘Questions and Disjunctions’: Syntax, Semantics, Typology
    • Place of Presentation
      Institut fuer Romanistik, Universitaet Wien, Austria
    • Year and Date
      2015-10-01
    • Related Report
      2015 Research-status Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Book] “Unified Merge into Multidominance,” in In Untiring Pursuit of Better Alternatives『より良き代案を絶えず求めて』2015

    • Author(s)
      Takashi Toyoshima 著(江頭浩樹, 北原久嗣, 中澤和夫, 野村忠央, 大石正幸, 西前明, 鈴木泉子 編)
    • Publisher
      開拓社
    • Related Report
      2014 Research-status Report

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Published: 2014-04-04   Modified: 2018-03-22  

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