2017 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
A Theoretical and Empirical Study on Amalgam Constructions in English
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15K02604
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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 |
English linguistics
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| Research Institution | Wakayama 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 | 融合体 / wh融合体 / 透明的自由関係節 / 主語接触関係節 |
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| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
The aim of our study is to explore syntactic structures of amalgams like wh-amalgams (John ate I don't know what.) and transparent free relatives (TFR) (John is what you call a bookworm.) in terms of Chomsky's (2000) minimalist theory. Some of the findings have been published in English Linguistics 32 (p.78-101) under the title“The Syntactic Structure of Wh-syntactic Amalgams”and in English Linguistics 34 (p. 235-265) under the title“Transparent Free Relatives As Specifying Coordination.”The former identifies problems with Kluck's (2011) sluicing analysis of wh-amalgams and proposes an alternative analysis, according to which we consider what to be the head of the whole expression and the rest to be a type of parenthetical. The latter analyzes TFRs as small clauses with the wh-clause and the pivot of the construction mediated by Koster's (2000) colon head. Our analyses successfully account for core properties of the amalgams and overcome difficulties that previous accounts faced.
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| Free Research Field |
統語論
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