2009 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
Space expressions and the role of verbal prefixes in Hungarian
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18520312
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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 (2007-2009)
Osaka University of Foreign Studies (2006) |
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Principal Investigator |
WASEDA Mika Osaka University, 世界言語研究センター, 教授 (30219448)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2006 – 2009
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| Keywords | その他の言語学 / ハンガリー語 / 動詞接頭辞 |
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| Research Abstract |
In Hungarian the motion expressions are described by satellite elements such as verbal prefixes, adverbs, postpositions and case suffixes other than verbs. It is categorized as a so-called satellite-framed language. The verbal prefixes play the most important role in the description of path. The most of the verbal prefixes have a perfectivizing function besides indicating direction of the process. This function is explained by focusing the attention to the final stage, that is the completion of the process.
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