2009 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
Toward the Understanding of the Semantic Interpretational Mechanism in Linguistic Expressions with Scalar Structures
| Project/Area Number |
20720110
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Research Field |
Linguistics
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| Research Institution | Osaka Medical College |
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Principal Investigator |
MINAMI Eri (田中 英理) Osaka Medical College, 医学部, 講師 (40452685)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2008 – 2009
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| Keywords | 意味論 / スケール構造 / 前置詞 / 変化述語 / 数量詞 |
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| Research Abstract |
This research project aims at elucidating how scale structures (a set of degrees) are manifested in the semantics of various linguistic expressions, including prepositions and verbs (especially change of state/location verbs). The analysis is given by the compositional semantics, which tries to map a syntactic structure directly to its semantic representation. The key to the analyses in both prepositions and verbs is the distribution of measure phrases.
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