2009 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
A Syntactic and Semantic Study of English Prepositions in the Minimalist Program
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19520430
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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 | Dokkyo University |
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Principal Investigator |
SUZUKI Hidekazu Dokkyo University, 外国語学部, 教授 (30004071)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2007 – 2009
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| Keywords | 文法 |
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| Research Abstract |
(1) Prepositions can be found to take not only NPs but also APs, AdvPs, PPs and CPs ; so categorial selections must be specified for prepositions just like verbs.
(2) PPs can appear not only in sentence-initial position, VP-final position and sentence-final position but also in mid-position or auxiliary position, depending on their meanings.
(3) The semantic interpretation of PPs can be suggested to be made in the following way : (i) A small number of Proto-meanings can be assumed for prepositions ; (ii) The semantic properties of nouns can be specified in terms of Qualia structure, especially by Constitutive and Telic Qualia.
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