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2004 Fiscal Year Final Research Report Summary

Research on the relations between modern french tens-aspect system and ways of subjective cognition of events

Research Project

Project/Area Number 14510570
Research Category

Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)

Allocation TypeSingle-year Grants
Section一般
Research Field 仏語・仏文学
Research InstitutionOsaka University

Principal Investigator

YOSHITAKA Haruki  Univ.of Osaka, Faculty of Language and Culture, Professor, 言語文化部, 教授 (00144535)

Project Period (FY) 2002 – 2004
KeywordsCognition of Event / Imparfait / Passe compose / Passe simple / Subjective Foregrounding
Research Abstract

In order to pursue the above project, I made detailed analyses on some novels written in contemporary French. As for "passe compse", we examined its functions especially from the point of view of its relations with the time of utterance. Then, we took as a corpus a novel in which both "passe compse" and simple past were used frequently, and examined these two tenses firm the point of view of the subjective cognition of events ; having got the distribution of these two pasts in this novel, I then classified the uses of "passe compse" in several semantical groups. Through this analysis, I concluded that simple past is used to tell development of the story as a background and that "passe compse" is used to foreground subjective speech of the narrator (=the hero of the novel). This result constitutes the base of the further study.
Concerning "imparfait", I focused on so-called "imparfait pittoresuque" and "imparfait de rupture" where the form of imparfait seems to be used to denote aoristic event. My conclusion is that the imparfait is used to attribute a property to an entity or to describe a property of a given situation. In other words, the imparfait is used as a means of subjective cognition of events.
Finally, I made a contrastive research, with Taiwanese linguist Ms Liu Ch'i-wen, on the modal function of an aspect marker "le" in the Chinese.

  • Research Products

    (12 results)

All 2004 2003 Other

All Journal Article (12 results)

  • [Journal Article] 複合過去と単純過去-心理的領域と外部世界-2004

    • Author(s)
      春木 仁孝
    • Journal Title

      言語における時空をめぐって II(言語文化共同研究プロジェクト2003)

      Pages: 35-45

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
  • [Journal Article] 事態認識の方策としての半過去 -絵画的半過去を中心として-2004

    • Author(s)
      春木 仁孝
    • Journal Title

      言語文化研究 30

      Pages: 229-251

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
  • [Journal Article] "Imparfait" as a Means of Cognition of Events - with Special reference to "Imparfait pittoresque"2004

    • Author(s)
      HARUKI, Yoshitaka
    • Journal Title

      Studies in Language and Culture 30

      Pages: 229-251

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
  • [Journal Article] 回想と語り -複合過去と単純過去の交替-2003

    • Author(s)
      春木 仁孝
    • Journal Title

      言語における時空をめぐって(言語文化共同研究プロジェクト2002)

      Pages: 25-32

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
  • [Journal Article] 語気助詞"了"のモダリティー機能-アスペクトからもダリティーへ-2003

    • Author(s)
      春木 仁孝, 劉 綺紋
    • Journal Title

      言語における時空をめぐって(言語文化共同研究プロジェクト2002)

      Pages: 33-42

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
  • [Journal Article] Memory and Narration - Passe Compose and Simple Past -2003

    • Author(s)
      HARUKI, Yoshitaka
    • Journal Title

      Time and Space in languages

      Pages: 25-32

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
  • [Journal Article] On the Modal Function of "le" in Chinese - from Aspect to Modality -"2003

    • Author(s)
      HARUKI, Yoshitaka, Liu Ch'ien
    • Journal Title

      Time and Space in languages

      Pages: 33-42

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
  • [Journal Article] Passe Compose and Simple Past - Subjective Sphere and Outer World2003

    • Author(s)
      HARUKI, Yoshitaka
    • Journal Title

      Time and Space in languages II

      Pages: 35-45

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
  • [Journal Article] 緩和表現の半過去について

    • Author(s)
      春木 仁孝
    • Journal Title

      言語における時空をめぐって III(言語文化共同研究プロジェクト2004) (印刷中)

      Pages: 31-40

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
  • [Journal Article] L'imparfait : temps attributif

    • Author(s)
      Yoshitaka HARUKI
    • Journal Title

      第24回国際ロマンス語言語学会論文集 (印刷中)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
  • [Journal Article] On the "Imparfait" of Moderation

    • Author(s)
      HARUKI, Yoshitaka
    • Journal Title

      Time and Space in languages III(in Press)

      Pages: 31-40

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
  • [Journal Article] "Imparfait" : Attributive tense

    • Author(s)
      HARUKI, Yoshitaka
    • Journal Title

      Proceedings of the 24^<th> International Symposium of Romance Philology and Linguistics (in Press)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より

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Published: 2006-07-11  

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