Investigation into differences and inconsistencies of grammatical judgment and its resolution

2017 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 15K02486
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Linguistics
• Research Institution: Aichi Prefectural University
• Principal Investigator: MORITA Hisashi 愛知県立大学, 外国語学部, 准教授 (30381742)
• Project Period (FY): 2015-04-01 – 2018-03-31
• Keywords: intervention effects / subjacency condition / coordination / pied-piping / alternative semantics / question/focus particles / conjunction doubling / disjunction doubling

Outline of Final Research Achievements

This research is based on the previous Kaken research about grammatical judgement of intervention effects. The research developed in three areas. First, a proposal has been made to account for the common aspects of intervention effects in Japanese and Sinhala. Secondly, a syntactic and semantic analysis of indeterminates (or wh-elements) with focusing particles in Japanese and Korean. The comparison between the two language has also been made and an explanation　has　been　provided.　Finally,　the　research　has　suggested　a　possibility　that languages employ a different strategy to escape the subjacency condition. In other words, alternative semantics and binding must be employed.

Free Research Field

統語論