2021 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
Ontology of degrees: Syntactic, semantic and pragmatic approaches
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17K02810
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
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| Allocation Type | Multi-year Fund |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Research Field |
English linguistics
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| Research Institution | Osaka University |
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Principal Investigator |
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| Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) |
吉本 真由美 追手門学院大学, 国際教養学部, 講師 (60580660)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2017-04-01 – 2022-03-31
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| Keywords | 比較 / スケール / 否定の島 / 程度 / 程度の集合 |
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| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
This study addresses the question of whether the comparative constructions of Japanese and English are understood via the semantic entity of degree. In previous studies on comparative constructions in English, a semantics has been proposed that introduces a degree in a certain dimension and compares the size of two sets, each of which is denoted by the matrix and comparative clauses, respectively. On the other hand, for Japanese, there have been arguments as to whether degrees can be set in the first place, or whether degree sets cannot be formed. This study examined the data in previous studies on these issues and showed that by taking new comparative elements into account, the theory that a degree or a set of degrees are formed in Japanese comparison constructions as well.
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| Free Research Field |
意味論、語用論、統語論
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| Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements |
本研究は、比較という人間の認知機構にとって基本となる概念の言語的表れについて、その意味の理解に言語間でどのような差があるのか（あるいはないのか）という問いに取り組んできた。そこで明らかになったのは、少なくとも英語でも日本語でも、程度とその程度の集合形成という概念が必要であることが示された。これに基づき、その集合形成をどのように利用するかは語彙によって異なるという仮説を提示している。この成果が英語を含む外国語理解に役立つであろうことはもちろん、ヒトの言語の意味理解に関する普遍性と個別性についても示唆を与える。
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