2011 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
Formal Semantic Research on Negation and Related Phenomena
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20520361
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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 |
Linguistics
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| Research Institution | Kwansei Gakuin University (2009-2011)
Hirosaki Gakuin University (2008) |
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Principal Investigator |
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| Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) |
TANCREDI Christopher 慶応義塾大学, 言語文化研究所, 准教授 (80251750)
NISHIYAMA Atsuko 和歌山大学, 教育学部, 准教授 (90469130)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2008 – 2011
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| Keywords | 形式意味論 / 否定 |
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| Research Abstract |
This study focuses on such phenomena that are not considered to be related to negation, such as tense, quantification and focus. By examining their interpretation and relation with negation, we proposed a formal semantic theory of negation and those phenomena. Specifically, we theorized that the stativity of negative sentences crucially differs from that brought out by tense and aspectual composition, and that negative polarity items are interpreted both inside and outside of negation.
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