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2003 Fiscal Year Final Research Report Summary

Descriptive and Theoretical Research on Cross-Linguistic Variations

Research Project

Project/Area Number 12410126
Research Category

Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B)

Allocation TypeSingle-year Grants
Section一般
Research Field 言語学・音声学
Research InstitutionUniversity of Tsukuba

Principal Investigator

WASHIO Ryuichi  University of Tsukuba, Institute of Modern Languages and Cultures, Professor, 現代語・現代文化学系, 教授 (90167099)

Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) KAGA Nobuhiro  University of Tsukuba, Institute of Modern Languages and Cultures, Assistant Professor, 現代語現代文化学系, 助教授 (20185705)
ITO Makoto  University of Tsukuba, Institute of Modern Languages and Cultures, Assistant Professor, 現代語現代文化学系, 助教授 (60168375)
YAMADA Hiroshi  University of Tsukuba, Institute of Modern Languages and Cultures, Assistant Professor, 現代語現代文化学系, 助教授 (10200734)
YOSHIHITO Sasaki  University of Tsukuba, Institute of Modern Languages and Cultures, Assistant Professor, 現代語現代文化学系, 助教授 (40250998)
OYA Toshiaki  University of Tsukuba, Institute of Modern Languages and Cultures, Assistant Professor, 現代語現代文化学系, 助教授 (60213881)
Project Period (FY) 2000 – 2003
KeywordsResultative Construction / Auxiliary Selection / Old and Modern Japanese / idiomatic Ex cessions / French / Germanic / Mongolian and Korean / Chinese Dialects
Research Abstract

Research during the, first three years of the present project has produced some unexpected results. Of particular importance is the following discovery, by the Project Leader. The perfect auxiliaries in Old Japanese, -tu and -nu, display a close distributional correspondence to the European auxiliaries HAVE and BE, particularly to hebben and zijn in Dutch, not only in the core cases where -tu/ hebben appear with transitives/ unergatives and -nu/ zijn with passives/ unaccusatives, but also in the following exceptional cases : Dutch is known to have a few transitive verbs, such as FORGET and PASS, which exceptionally select zijn ; Old Japanese also has a small class of exceptional transitives, among which are the verbs meaning FORGET and PASS. Since this is thought not likely to be accidental, the reasonable conclusions are that -tu/-nu selection and hebben/zijn selection are essentially the same phenomenon, and it is by the very nature of this phenomenon that verbs like FORGET are favored as exceptions aver many other transitive verbs. Auxiliary selection is therefore a phenomenon not confined to European languages -a conclusion which throws fresh light upon some important issues in the theory of auxiliary selection. The Project Leader has already published two articles on this subject in refereed journals in Japan and Korea (JOURNAL of THE APANESE GRAMMAR SOCIETY and LANGUAGE RESEARCH). ; the most comprehensive discussion of this subject and some other related matters are presented in a long paper which is to appear in JOURNAL of EAST ASIAN LINGUISTICS (U.S.A.)
The Project Leader and the investigators corroborated on various issues in lexical semantics and produced some substantial results, including "Same Typological Implications of Mongolian Resultatives," ENGLISH LINGUISTICS 19, pp.366-391 (by the Project Leader) and "Reflexives and resultatives : some differences between English and German," LINGUISTICS 40/5, pp.961-986 (by Toshiaki OYA)

  • Research Products

    (12 results)

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All Publications (12 results)

  • [Publications] Washio, Ryuichi: "Auxiliary Selection in the East"Journal of East Asian Linguistics. (印刷中). (2004)

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  • [Publications] 鷲尾龍一: "se faireと多言語比較研究"フランス語学研究. 37. 55-62 (2003)

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  • [Publications] 鷲尾龍一: "助動詞選択と非対格性をめぐる若干の考察"上智大学言語学会会報. 17. 134-153 (2003)

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  • [Publications] 鷲尾龍一: "もつ・ある・なる"言語. 32.11. 69-75 (2003)

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  • [Publications] 伊藤 眞: "慣用句対照研究の方法論的考察"次世代の言語研究. 3. 235-247 (2004)

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  • [Publications] Oya, Toshiaki: "Ueberlegungen zu zwei Unterschieden der Mittelkonstruktion zwischen dem Deutschen, Englischen und Niederlaendischen"Zeitschrift fuer Sprachwissenschaft. 22.1. 213-242 (2003)

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  • [Publications] WASHIO, Ryuichi: "Auxiliary Selection in the East"JOURNAL OF EAST ASIAN LINGUISTICS. (in press). (2004)

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  • [Publications] WASHIO, Ryuichi: "A Cross-Linguistic Perspective on SE FAIRE"BULLETIN D'ETUDES DE LA LINGUISTIQ FRANCAISE. 37. 55-62 (2003)

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  • [Publications] WASHIO, Ryuichi: "Some Thoughts on Auxiliary Selection and Unaccusativity"PROCEEDINGS OF SOPHIA UNIVERSITY LINGUISTIC SOCIETY. 17. 134-153 (2003)

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  • [Publications] WASHIO, Ryuichi: "Have-Be-Become"GENGO. 32.11. 69-75 (2003)

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  • [Publications] ITO, Makoto: "Methodological Considerations on the Contrastive Analysis of Idiomatic Expressions in Japanese and German"LINGUISTIC RESEARCH OF THE NEXT GENERATION. 3. 235-247 (2004)

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  • [Publications] OYA, Toshiaki: "Ueberlegungen zu zwei Unterschieden der Mittelkonstruktion zwischen dem Deutschen, Englischen and Niederlaendischen"ZEITSCHRIFT FUER SPRACHWISSENSCHAFT. 22. 213-242 (2003)

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Published: 2005-04-19  

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