2020 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
A Comparative Study of Syntax for the Investigation of Universal Coordinate and Parallel Structures
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19K13228
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Early-Career Scientists
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| Allocation Type | Multi-year Fund |
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| Review Section |
Basic Section 02080:English linguistics-related
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| Research Institution | Tokyo University of Agriculture (2020)
Aichi University of Technology (2019) |
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| Project Period (FY) |
2019-04-01 – 2021-03-31
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| Keywords | 統辞論 / 等位構造 / 並列構造 / コピュラ文 / 寄生空所文 / 等位構造制約 / 全域的移動 / &P分析 |
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| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
This study investigates the syntactic properties of three different types of constructions: (a) Coordination, (b) the equative copula construction, and (c) from-to constructions. The aim of this study is twofold: First, it is argued that they obey the same parallelism constraint, which I dub the generalized Coordinate Structure Constraint (CSC: cf. Ross 1967). Second, I suggest that the three types of constructions share the same syntactic structure. I demonstrated that coordination, the equative copula construction, and the from-to construction obey the generalized CSC in English and Japanese.
[Generalized CSC] In coordination, equative copula and from-to constructions, (i) no component may be moved, (ii) nor may any element contained in a component be moved out of that component.
The parallelisms observed imply that the three different constructions share the same syntactic structure. I specifically claim that they are derived via symmetry-breaking movement from XP-YP structure.
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| Free Research Field |
統辞論
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| Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements |
日本語と英語を中心とした比較統辞論研究の手法を用いて、等位接続文、（同定）コピュラ文、そしてPath構文（from-to constructions）の構造について、統一的な分析を与えた。これらの構文はこれまで、一部の研究を除き、関連付けられることは無かった。本研究課題の研究成果によれば、これらの構文の背後には、共通した「並列構造」が存在することになる。本研究課題の研究成果は、これまで研究がされてこなかった現象に新たな光をあてただけではなく、通言語的に存在する「等位構造」が、実は等位接続文以外の背後にも存在する、より一般的な構造であることを強く示唆するものである。
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