2004 Fiscal Year Final Research Report Summary
A Comparison of English and Japanese from the Semantic-typological Perspective : A Corpus-based study of Event Structuring.
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14510544
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Research Field |
英語・英米文学
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| Research Institution | Kobe University (2004)
Meiji Gakuin University (2002-2003) |
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Principal Investigator |
MATSUMOTO Yo Kobe University, Faculty of Letters, Professor, 文学部, 教授 (40245303)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2002 – 2004
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| Keywords | Semantic Typology / Verbs of Motion / Path expressions / Cognitive Semantics / Corpus / Lexicalization / Caused Motion / Visual Motion |
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| Research Abstract |
The results of this project can be divided into two categories : database and publications.
The former includes 1)"frog stories" narrated by 23 native speakers of Japanese, and 2)A Bibliography of Linguistic Expressions for Motion Events. This bibliography was first published as 2002b (see below), and it has been updated and is now available at http://www.lit.kobe-u.ac.jp/yomatsum/motionbiblio.html.
Publications include papers on 1)caused motion construction (2002a), 2)typology of motion events (2003a, b), and 3) visual motion (2004). My papers on Typology of motion events review previous typologies, their different interpretations and their problems, and propose an alternative in which languages are divided into different types depending on whether Path of motion is encoded in the head of VP (Head-framed languages) or not (Nonhead-framed languages). My paper on visual motion describes this phenomenon in Japanese in details. An integration of the findings in this paper and the typology of motion events is attempted in an unpublished paper presented at the 2004 Conference of the English linguistics Society of Japan. It is argued that languages tend to take a Nonhead-framed pattern in the following order. Motion <Caused Motion <Visual Motion. All of these works are partially based on the examination of corpus data (Cobuild Corpus and Mainichi-shinbun data).
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[Book] 認知意味論2003
Author(s)
松本曜
Total Pages
322
Publisher
大修館書店
Description
「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
