Morphological study of adjective-predicate sentence subject marking in old Japanese

2023 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 16K02718
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Japanese linguistics
• Research Institution: Utsunomiya University
• Principal Investigator: Takayama Michiyo 宇都宮大学, 国際学部, 准教授 (70451705)
• Project Period (FY): 2016-04-01 – 2024-03-31
• Keywords: 形容詞述語 / 格標示 / 形態論

Outline of Final Research Achievements

Regarding case marking in Japanese, the fundamental question of how to recognize the function of case marking itself has been overlooked in the history of research, and the significance of the research has not been fully understood. Therefore, at the beginning of my research, I considered the significance of using the function of noun -φ as the subject of analysis in research on case marking functions, and summarized the results in papers (Takayama 2017, 2018).
At the beginning of the research, the plan was to reconsider the classification of "qualitative adjectives" and "stative adjectives" in old Japanese, but as research became difficult to carry out due to the coronavirus pandemic, the plan was revised and The investigation was advanced. Since the research deadline has reached the analysis stage, I would like to continue the analysis and publish it in a paper.

Free Research Field

日本語学

Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements

古代日本語の状態形容詞を述語とする文における格標示機能の一端を明らかにし、形容詞を述語とする文の構造について、新たな視点で検討できる。