2007 Fiscal Year Final Research Report Summary
Contrastive Studies on French and Japanese Tense and Aspect Systems Based on Event Semantics
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17520261
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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 |
Linguistics
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| Research Institution | Osaka University |
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Principal Investigator |
MITO Hiroshi Osaka University, Graduate School of Language and Cultrure, Associate Professor (60181939)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2005 – 2007
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| Keywords | Tense / Aspect / Event Semantics / Formal Semantics |
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| Research Abstract |
In this research project, I studied on the event semantics, especially on the semantics of Japanese based on it. This study is intended as theoretical foundation for the sematic analysis of tense-aspect system. In the two articles, "On the Treatment of Japanese Noun Phrases Based on Event Semantics" and "Towards the Construction of the Semantics of Japanese Based on Event Semantics", I showed the theorerical advantages of the event-semantic framework in analyzing the semantics of Japanese. In the article "Mood, Tense and Aspect in the Temporal Adverbial Clauses in Latin", I studied the form and meaning of tense-aspect system in Latin temporal clauses.
In studying the tense-aspect system, its syntactic and semantic interaction with negation system is very important. So I emphasized the theoretical advantages of the event semantics in my Introduction to the Symposium "Negation and Linguistic Theory" held at the 135th annual meeting of Linguistic Society of Japan.
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