A study of impersonal constructions in Modern Icelandic

2022 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 18K00529
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Review Section: Basic Section 02060:Linguistics-related
• Research Institution: Kanazawa University
• Principal Investigator: Irie Koji 金沢大学, 歴史言語文化学系, 教授 (40313621)
• Project Period (FY): 2018-04-01 – 2023-03-31
• Keywords: アイスランド語 / 非人称構文

Outline of Final Research Achievements

This is a study of the impersonal constructions in Modern Icelandic. As the main method of collecting linguistic data, we used a database constructed by the principal investigator and free online corpora hosted by a research institute in Iceland. Mainly the following four aspects were investigated: (1) indefinite-personal constructions, (2) the progressive passive construction, (3) impersonal verbs with an accusative subject, and (4) impersonal verbs with a genitive subject.

Free Research Field

言語学

Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements

現代アイスランド語の非人称構文をめぐる諸問題について、主としてコーパスを用いた用例調査を行なうことにより、先行研究で述べられている事柄の確認をするとともに、部分的にではあるが、これまで十分明らかではなかった細部の記述を精密にすることができた。