A comparative study of verbs of visual perception and conditional imperatives

2016 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 15K21277
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Research Field: Linguistics; English linguistics
• Research Institution: Fukui Prefectural University
• Principal Investigator: MORI Hideki 福井県立大学, 学術教養センター, 准教授 (20534671)
• Project Period (FY): 2015-04-01 – 2017-03-31
• Keywords: 視覚動詞 / 条件命令文 / 試行性 / モダリティ / アスペクト

Outline of Final Research Achievements

This study compared and contrasted verbs of visual perception and conditional imperatives from several languages such as Japanese, English, Chinese and Korean. The findings about Japanese and English are: V-te-miru which has a conditional meaning tends to correspond to a single verb in English instead of a complex expression; V-te-miru is one of the modal expressions meaning realis; and the difference in the grammatical category of imperatives between Japanese and English explains why Japanese conditional imperatives must co-occur with the verb of visual perception.

Free Research Field

日英対照言語学