2010 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

An Analysis of Noun-Oriented Expressions in English and Its Contributions to the Betterment of Writing Education

Research Project

Project/Area Number	20520431
Research Category	Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
Allocation Type	Single-year Grants
Section	一般
Research Field	English linguistics
Research Institution	Tohoku University
Principal Investigator	FUKUCHI Hajime Tohoku University, 大学院・情報科学研究科, 教授 (90015884)
Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha)	ASAKAWA Teruo 東北大学, 高等教育開発推進センター, 教授 (50101522) OGAWA Yoshiki 東北大学, 大学・院情報科学研究科, 准教授 (20322977) NISHIDA Kouichi 東北大学, 大学院・情報科学研究科, 准教授 (80326454)
Project Period (FY)	2008 – 2010
Keywords	英語 / 日本語 / 言語学 / 認知言語学 / 名詞構造 / 節構造 / メトニミー
Research Abstract	In view of the traditional observation that English is a noun-oriented language, analyses were made of English expressions that are syntactically composed with some nominal as head element in syntactic projections. Through corpus-based investigations, some new findings were made that the typical noun-oriented expressions of English syntax are characterized, not by nominalizations of verbs or adjectives, but by complex noun phrase structures that are made up of true (non-derived) nouns as head and relative clauses that follow them. The latter pattern is said to have a function of conveying propositional contents in noun-oriented syntactic structures.

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