2021 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
A study on the usage of the Japanese verb "suru" to express the meaning of attribute/state and its corresponding expressions in English
Project/Area Number |
19K20789
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Project/Area Number (Other) |
18H05580 (2018)
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Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Research Activity Start-up
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Allocation Type | Multi-year Fund (2019) Single-year Grants (2018) |
Review Section |
0102:Literature, linguistics, and related fields
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Research Institution | Osaka Prefecture University (2021) Osaka University (2018-2020) |
Principal Investigator |
Ogami Yuichiro 大阪府立大学, 高等教育推進機構, 准教授 (80826339)
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Project Period (FY) |
2018-08-24 – 2022-03-31
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Keywords | 動詞「スル」 / 「XはYをしている」 / 状態・性質 / 意味的特徴 / 成立メカニズム |
Outline of Final Research Achievements |
This project looked closely at various examples of the Japanese construction in the form of "X is doing Y," which uses the verb "suru" to describe the attribute or state of an object, and deepened our understanding of the actual state of it. It was shown that the construction in question has the semantic characteristics of "expressivity" and "integrity". In addition, among the expressions of the syntactic constructions in question, the types of expressions that refer to inanimate objects and those that use compound nouns were analyzed, and it was found that figurative cognition is considered to be involved in their formation.
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Free Research Field |
認知言語学
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Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements |
本研究課題の考察対象は、典型的には動作の遂行や活動の実施を表すものと考えられる「スル」という動詞を用いて対象の有り様に関する意味を表す興味深い表現のタイプである。本課題の取り組みを通じ、問題となる構文の言語的実態について、従来の研究においては示されてこなかった知見が得られ、その意味的特徴と成立メカニズムについての見通しが深められたと考えられる。ここで得られた成果は、動詞「スル」の全容解明に貢献するものと期待される。
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