2009 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
A Study on Syntactic and Semantic Conditions on Ellipsis
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18520383
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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 |
English linguistics
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| Research Institution | Tohoku University (2008-2009)
Yamaguchi University (2006-2007) |
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Principal Investigator |
SHIMA Etsuro Tohoku University, 大学院・文学研究科, 准教授 (50302063)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2006 – 2009
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| Keywords | 削除 / コピー / 動詞句削除 / 間接疑問縮約 / 空所化 / 擬似空所化 / 単一要素残置 |
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| Research Abstract |
When linguists consider the interpretation of elliptical construction in a natural language, they have to clarify the procedures by which speakers of a language are able systematically to generate appropriate meanings for ellipsis sites. I have discussed this question by investigating various kinds of ellipsis from syntactic and semantic perspectives. My research has revealed that ellipsis sites have unpronounced pro-forms or syntactic structures, and that the latter type of elliptical construction is formed by the deletion operation at the phonological component or the copy operation at the semantic component.
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