2017 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
Japanese/German contrasitve Investigation for Semantics and Construction of Psychadjektives
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15K02534
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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 | Waseda University |
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| Project Period (FY) |
2015-04-01 – 2018-03-31
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| Keywords | 感情形容詞 / モダリティー / 脱他動化 / 特性表現 / linking |
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| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
Between Japanese and German psychadjectives, the following parallelisms are observed: 1) If the semantic focus lies on the OBJEKT of the sensation or emotion the argument with the OBJEKT-role occupies the subject position and the EXPERIENCER-role occurs in an oblique case. 2) If the EXPERIENCER is focused semantically he become the subject and the OBJEKT appears as an adverbial. 3) There are cases in which no distinguished difference in saliency between the OBJEKT and the EXPERIENCER. This characteristic can be also observed in the detransitive constructions. It is especially interesting that the certain psychadjectives show a parallelism to detransitive constructions with modality (German sein + zu infinitive, sich lassen construction and Japanese construction of possibility and volition) which are individual-level expression. The series of parallelisms suggest that these findings belong to linguistic universality and can consist a foundation for further investigations.
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| Free Research Field |
ドイツ語言語学
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