2017 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
A descriptive and theoretical study of semantic extension from concession
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15K02605
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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 | Kyushu 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 | 意味変化 / 譲歩 / 文法化 / 主観化 / 間主観化 / 文法化 / 構文化 / 談話標識 |
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| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
The process and motivation of the semantic change from constructions with concessive meaning were revealed through the investigation of examples from corpora and the implications of the development on the theory of semantic change was considered.
The English "having said that" construction and its related constructions were examined as case studies. These constructions have now entrenched concessive meaning but also developed a function of a discourse marker that marks topic shift. The development of this discourse management function is argued to be motivated by their constructional composition with the concessive clause followed by the main clause. In addition, scope expansion from the sentence to discourse is found to be in parallel with the expansion observed with topic-resuming "anyway" and parenthetical hedge clauses that have developed from concessive meaning.
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| Free Research Field |
認知言語学
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