Research on dvandvas from cross-linguistic viewpoints

2023 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 20H01268
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B)
• Allocation Type: Single-year Grants
• Section: 一般
• Review Section: Basic Section 02080:English linguistics-related
• Research Institution: University of Tsukuba
• Principal Investigator: Shimada Masaharu 筑波大学, 人文社会系, 教授 (30254890)
• Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha): 小野 雄一 筑波大学, 人文社会系, 教授 (70280352) ; 長野 明子 静岡県立大学, 国際関係学研究科, 教授 (90407883)
• Project Period (FY): 2020-04-01 – 2024-03-31
• Keywords: 語形成 / 生成文法 / 英語史 / 言語比較

Outline of Final Research Achievements

We obtained several research results worth mentioning. Firstly, we have clealy made a morphological and semantic distinction between coodinate compounds of appositive type like "singer-songwriter" and those of dvandva type like "Budapest" from a contrastive-linguistic point of view. It has been often pointed out that dvandvas are productive in Japanese, but not in English. However, we found that they prevail even in English with a coordinator "and," utilized as a linker. Secondly, a morphosyntactic strucure of dvandvas was identified on the basis of ideas on phrasal structures of coordinations developed in the literature. A coordination structure is a matter of debate in syntactic theorizing and we made a unique contribution to this issue with dvandvas. Thirdly, we made a diachronic investigation concerning dvandvas in OE and ME. For instance, a combination of constituents forming dvadnvas was considered in terms of prosody.

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Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements

本研究は等位複合語を対象にした言語間比較を行い、複合語の構造と等位表現の構造を研究したものである。等位表現の構造は統語論において長く議論の的であったが、等位複合語という語も対象にすることにより、句と語の違い、品詞の違いを超えた一般的な観点から等位構造について提案を行った点が学術的意義となる。また、データにはレシピタイトル等、日常的に創造されるものも含まれ、言語学を社会に身近なものとして紹介した点も重要な点である。