Crosslinguistic investigation of morphology relating to anticausativization

2017 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 15K02489
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Linguistics
• Research Institution: Ritsumeikan University (2017); Sapporo Gakuin University (2015-2016)
• Principal Investigator: SASAKI Kan 立命館大学, 言語教育情報研究科, 教授 (80312784)
• Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha): 白石 英才 札幌学院大学, 経済学部, 教授 (10405631) ; 白岩 広行 立正大学, 文学部, 専任講師 (30625025) ; 奥田 統己 札幌学院大学, 人文学部, 教授 (60224151) ; 佐久間 淳一 名古屋大学, 人文学研究科, 教授 (60260585) ; 梅谷 博之 東京大学, 大学院人文社会系研究科(文学部), 研究員(移行) (60515815) ; Caluianu Daniela 小樽商科大学, 言語センター, 教授 (80360973)
• Research Collaborator: SAKURAI Eiko
• Project Period (FY): 2015-04-01 – 2018-03-31
• Keywords: 逆使役 / 再帰 / 他動性 / 語彙的アスペクト / 自動詞 / 意味地図

Outline of Final Research Achievements

Anticausativization is a voice category deriving intransitive verbs from transitive verbs by removing the transitive subject. In many languages, anticausativization is one of the functions of the reflexive marker. In this research plan, we attempted to investigate the range of anticausative morphology usage through an analysis of languages and dialects employing reflexive morphemes as well as languages and dialects employing morphemes other than the reflexive.
This project enabled us to gather anticausative related data from the internet using Crawler. The outcomes of this research project include the clarification of the semantic difference between lexical intransitive verbs and morphologically derived anticausatives sharing common verbal roots and a tentative version of a semantic map for anticausativization using not only reflexive morphemes but also non-reflexive morphemes.

Free Research Field

言語学