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2001 Fiscal Year Final Research Report Summary

Practical and Theoretical Studies of Adverbials in English and Japanese

Research Project

Project/Area Number 12610488
Research Category

Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)

Allocation TypeSingle-year Grants
Section一般
Research Field 英語・英米文学
Research InstitutionNiigata University

Principal Investigator

AKI Takamichi  Faculty of Humanities, Niigata University, Associate Professor, 人文学部, 助教授 (60192895)

Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) SATO Naoto  Kyushu University, International Student Center, Lecturer, 留学生センター, 講師 (50315149)
UCHIDA Megumi  Shizuoka University, Faculty of Education, Professor, 教育学部, 教授 (80185032)
OISHI Tsuyoshi  Faculty of Humanities, Niigata University, Professor, 人文学部, 教授 (70100980)
Project Period (FY) 2000 – 2001
Keywordsadverbials / adverbial clauses / adnominal clauses / adjuncts / 様態節 / 理由節 / 関係代名詞節
Research Abstract

In the first year of this research project, we first carefully examined the observations and analyses of the relevant papers which were published previously. Next applying the analysis of adverbials by Faraci(1974) to Japanese adverbials and focusing on the similarities of adverbial clauses in English and Japanese denoting "reason," "purpose," and "manner," we investigated the syntactic, semantic, and functional properties of the adverbial clauses in question. As the result of this investigation, we found out some sort of structural hierarchy of the Japanese adverbial clauses, the same structural hierarchy of the English equivalents.
In the next and last year of this research project, we considered the similarities of adverbial clauses in English and Japanese more carefully, extending our objects of study to "adnominal" clauses, namely relative clauses modifying nominal expressions, and having theoretical points of view in mind. The first conclusion we arrived at was that the same structural hierarchy of the relevant adverbial clauses in English and Japanese can be observed in some relative clauses modifying nominal expressions, that is, the structural hierarchy is a property of adjuncts have in common. And our second conclusion was that the adverbial clauses denoting "reason" share some semantic and functional properties with some relative clauses modifying nominal expressions, in other words, these are properties of adjuncts.

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All Publications (4 results)

  • [Publications] 内田 恵: "非制限的副詞節についての覚え書き"静岡大学教育学部研究報告(人文・社会科学篇). 52. 1-10 (2002)

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  • [Publications] 佐藤 直人: "副詞節の構造と分布に関する生成論的研究"欧米の言語・社会・文化. 8. 87-102 (2002)

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  • [Publications] Megumi UCHIDA: "On Nonrestrictive Adverbial Clauses"Bulletin of the Faculty of Education (Liberal Arts and Social Sciences Series). No. 52. 1-10 (2002)

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  • [Publications] Naoto SATO: "A Generative Approach to the Structure and Distribution of Clausal Adjuncts"Studies of the European and American Languages, Societies, and Cultures. No. 8. 89-102 (2002)

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Published: 2003-09-17  

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