A Generative Syntactic Approach to the Historical Development of Pseudogapping in English
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26770133
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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 |
Linguistics
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| Research Institution | University of Tsukuba |
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Principal Investigator |
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| Project Period (FY) |
2014-04-01 – 2017-03-31
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| Project Status |
Completed (Fiscal Year 2016)
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| Budget Amount *help |
¥2,860,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,200,000、Indirect Cost: ¥660,000)
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: ¥910,000 (Direct Cost: ¥700,000、Indirect Cost: ¥210,000)
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| Keywords | 疑似空所化 / 動詞句省略 / PF削除分析 / 英語の(前)法助動詞 / 生成文法理論 / 形態統語論 / 英語史 / 名詞用法形容詞 / 形容詞の名詞用法 / 史的統語論 / 省略構文 / 生成統語論 / 英語の(前)助動詞 |
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| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
I examined the distribution of pseudogapping and VP-ellipsis in the history of English, i.e. from Old English to Present-day English, based on electronic corpora. The result shows that these elliptical constructions occur after pre-modals in Old English and Middle English. It is pointed out that the general assumption that pre-modals are not auxiliaries but lexical verbs is not compatible with the theoretical assumption that auxiliaries are responsible for the licensing of pseudogapping and VPE. This leads us to conclude that the pre-modals were already established as auxiliaries. Furthermore, this conclusion amounts to claim that English modals did not undergo the grammaticalization from lexical verbs to auxiliary verbs, whereas it has been widely assumed.
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