2017 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
Semantic and pragmatic approaches to null arguments
| Project/Area Number |
15K02495
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
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| Allocation Type | Multi-year Fund |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Research Field |
Linguistics
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| Research Institution | Ritsumeikan University |
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Principal Investigator |
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| Project Period (FY) |
2015-04-01 – 2018-03-31
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| Keywords | 形式意味論 / 形式語用論 / 空項 / 選択関数 / スコーレム化 / 作用域平行性 |
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| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
This project investigates the nature of phonetically unrealized nominals called null arguments. The main stream account of null arguments is syntactic: PF-deletion and LF-copy. The present research proposes an alternative, semantic/pragmatic analysis, pointing out novel data which reject such syntactic approaches. More specifically, null arguments are analyzed as denoting contextually salient properties and Skolemized choice functions take them and return indefinite interpretations.
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| Free Research Field |
形式意味論
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