2018 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
Relations between Modality and Aspect in Result-oriented Constructions in Japanese and English
Project/Area Number |
16K16855
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Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)
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Allocation Type | Multi-year Fund |
Research Field |
English linguistics
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Research Institution | Shizuoka University |
Principal Investigator |
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Project Period (FY) |
2016-04-01 – 2019-03-31
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Keywords | てしまう / Get受動文 / 事態の不可変性 |
Outline of Final Research Achievements |
This research clarified the mechanism of how the speaker's feelings occur on the result-oriented constructions, i.e. Get-passives in English and te-shimau expressions in Japanese. My semantic investigations made it clear that, interestingly, both constructions focus strongly on the resulting state, and that events stated in the constructions already happened and cannot be cancelled. From this semantic analysis above, I claim that it is this resultative aspect of these constructions that the speaker's feelings come from via inferencing based on contexts. An attempt in this research to analyze the relation between the speaker's feelings on the constructions and their semantic properties will also lead to clarify the relation between modality and aspect.
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Free Research Field |
英語学
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Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements |
本研究では、主に日本語の「てしまう」構文と英語のGet受動文を分析対象とし、そこに観察される話者の感情表出と構文のもつアスペクト的性質に相関性があることを明らかにした。このように日本語と英語で言語も異なり、形式的にも類似性をもたない形式にアスペクト性から共通性を見出したことで、日英語比較対照研究に新たな可能性をもたらすと考えられる。また、言語におけるモダリティとアスペクトの関係を明らかにしようとする研究に寄与することができたと言える。
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