linguistic phenomena and hierarchical structure of modality and viewpoint

2019 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 16K02639
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Linguistics
• Research Institution: Kanda University of International Studies
• Principal Investigator: Endo Yoshio 神田外語大学, 言語科学研究科, 教授 (50203675)
• Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha): 西垣内 泰介 神戸松蔭女子学院大学, 文学部, 教授 (40164545)
• Project Period (FY): 2016-04-01 – 2020-03-31
• Keywords: モダリティ / 副詞節 / カートグラフィー

Outline of Final Research Achievements

This research explored the nature of modality in the framework of the cartography of syntactic structures. We explored the hierarchically organized sequence of functional heads to house various types of modality expressions in adverbial clauses. The result has been published in Glossa. In addition, we also investigated the nature of inter-speaker variation of modality expression, which has been published in Linguistic Variation.

Free Research Field

カートグラフィー

Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements

談話や意味を階層構造で詳細に描き出すカートグラフィーの有効性を検証することにより、特にモダリティー研究の基盤となる知見を社会に提示し、言語に関わるこれから音研究者に貢献をした。