The Syntax of Represented Speech and Its Related Constructions

2017 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 15K02608
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: English linguistics
• Research Institution: Nagasaki University
• Principal Investigator: HIROE Akira 長崎大学, 言語教育研究センター, 教授 (20369119)
• Project Period (FY): 2015-04-01 – 2018-03-31
• Keywords: 描出話法文 / 直接引用文 / 引用マーカー / 付加部 / 語彙概念構造

Outline of Final Research Achievements

In this research, based on the assumption that the two constructions-represented speech sentences (RSSs) and direct quote sentences (DQSs)-are interrelated with each other in a unified way, I argued that the grammatical form of RSSs is an extended grammatical one. Moreover, I arugued that to what extent the two languages-English and Japanese can allow possible grammatical forms with regard to DQSs can be reduced to certain types of reporting verb in English and "to", a Japanese quote marker, in Japanese, respectively.

Free Research Field

英語学