2011 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
Comparative Syntax of Movement and Noun Phrase Structure
| Project/Area Number |
20520364
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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 | Nanzan University |
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Principal Investigator |
SAITO Mamoru 南山大学, 人文学部, 教授 (70186964)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2008 – 2011
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| Keywords | 比較統語論 / 文左方周縁部 / 補文標識 / スクランブリング / 引用 / 名詞句構造 / N'削除 / パラメター |
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| Research Abstract |
This project aimed to contribute to the research on the left/right periphery based on the analysis of Japanese. The language allows relatively free variation in word order and is rich in complementizers. It therefore offers evidence that is not observed in most other languages. Through this project, we succeeded in collecting new pieces of evidence for the structure of the left/right periphery proposed on the basis of research on Italian and Spanish, and provided support for the universality of the structure. For the noun phrase structure, we conducted a detailed comparative study of Japanese and Chinese as the two languages have rich classifier systems and lack number morphology. It was demonstrated that the main differences between them follow from the head parameter.
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