2010 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
An Analysis of Noun-Oriented Expressions in English and Its Contributions to the Betterment of Writing Education
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20520431
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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 |
English linguistics
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| Research Institution | Tohoku University |
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Principal Investigator |
FUKUCHI Hajime Tohoku University, 大学院・情報科学研究科, 教授 (90015884)
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| 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)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2008 – 2010
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| 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 |
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| 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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