2005 Fiscal Year Final Research Report Summary
Reassessment of empty categories in the theory of generative grammar
| Project/Area Number |
16520307
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Research Field |
English linguistics
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| Research Institution | Konan University |
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Principal Investigator |
ARIMURA Kaneaki Konan University, Faculty of Letters, professor, 文学部, 教授 (70068146)
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| Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) |
OBA Yukio Osaka University, Graduate School of Letters, professor, 大学院・文学研究科, 教授 (90108259)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2004 – 2005
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| Keywords | empty category / retroactive gerund / empty operator / free relative clause / double object construction / promise / PRO / Thematization / Extraction |
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| Research Abstract |
In this project we were involved in how the central notion in generative grammar, empty categories, was accommodated in the present-day generative framework, the Minimalist Program. Arimura (head investigator) was interested in the empty category in the retroactive gerund and argued that an empty operator was not involved in it but rather the empty category was created by A-movement. He also tried to clarify the nature of free relatives in English. Oba (investigator) was particularly concerned with the way in which the control relation was established in the promise construction on the basis of the theory he advanced in his 2005 paper, which is a product of the present project.
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