2010 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

A Descriptive Study on the Development of Tense, Aspect, and Modality Forms for Last 500 Years

Research Project

Project/Area Number	20720124
Research Category	Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)
Allocation Type	Single-year Grants
Research Field	Japanese linguistics
Research Institution	Jissen Women's University
Principal Investigator	HUKUSHIMA Takenobu Jissen Women's University, 文学部, 講師 (20372930)
Project Period (FY)	2008 – 2010
Keywords	テンス / アスペクト / モダリティ / 文法化(grammaticalization)
Research Abstract	My main topics of this research are the following : (1) research on the tense-aspect-modality system of Late Medieval Japanese, and (2) research on the development of tense-aspect-modality system in Japanese. The Late Medieval period can be said to be a very important period for the history of Japanese tense-aspect-modality system, because it is the turning point from Old Japanese to Modern Japanese. In spite of its importance, however, Late Medieval Japanese tense-aspect-modality system had not been researched very much, and for this reason, it had been impossible to examine the development of Japanese tense-aspect-modality system. Therefore, firstly, I researched Late Medieval Japanese system, and made it possible to compare the tense-aspect-modality system in Late Medieval Japanese and that in Modern Japanese. Secondly, I described the development of tense-aspect-modality system in Japanese.

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