A Study of Phrase Structure under a Labeling Algorithm

2016 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 15K16777
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Research Field: English linguistics
• Research Institution: Toyo University
• Principal Investigator: GOTO Nobu 東洋大学, 法学部, 助教 (50638202)
• Project Period (FY): 2015-04-01 – 2017-03-31
• Keywords: 併合 / 最小探査 / ラベル付けアルゴリズム / 摘出現象 / ミニマリスト・プログラム

Outline of Final Research Achievements

This study aims to provide a unified account for various linguistic phenomena in English and Japanese in terms of Chomsky's (2013, 2014) Labeling Algorithm (LA). In so doing, I have adopted the most recent framework of Generative Grammar, i.e., the minimalist program, and aimed to achieve the goal by empirically investigating the following two fundamental questions: How does LA take place? Why is LA required? As a result of this study, it turned out that LA can take place through one of the core syntactic operations, Spell-Out, and that LA is required to minimize search space in narrow syntax.

Free Research Field

理論言語学（統語論）