2010 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

Research on the Role and Interpretive Mechanism of Chains in Syntax within the Minimalist Program of Generative Grammar

Research Project

Project/Area Number	19520332
Research Category	Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
Allocation Type	Single-year Grants
Section	一般
Research Field	Linguistics
Research Institution	Yokohama National University
Principal Investigator	R・A Martin Yokohama National University, 環境情報研究院, 准教授 (30302342)
Co-Investigator(Renkei-kenkyūsha)	ENDO Yoshio 神田外語大学, 教授 (50203675) FUJII Tomohiro 横浜国立大学, 教育人間科学部, 准教授 (40513651)
Project Period (FY)	2007 – 2010
Keywords	生成文法 / ミニマリスト / 連鎖 / コントロール構文 / 比較統語論
Research Abstract	In this research project, we have shed further light on the nature of chains, making clear a number of aspects of their formation and interpretation. We have argued that chains are bona fide syntactic objects and that chains may arise not only by way of syntactic movement, which creates multiple occurrences of a single lexical selection, but also in cases where the system fails to distinguish between multiple selections of the same lexical item when these selections fall very close together, in terms of a phase-based locality.