2023 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
Information Focus Movement and Emphasis: In View of Main Clause Phenomena in English
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20K13065
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Early-Career Scientists
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| Allocation Type | Multi-year Fund |
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| Review Section |
Basic Section 02080:English linguistics-related
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| Research Institution | University of Miyazaki (2021-2023)
Yokohama College of Commerce (2020) |
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Principal Investigator |
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| Project Period (FY) |
2020-04-01 – 2024-03-31
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| Keywords | 生成統語論 / 対照言語学 / 対比的／非対比的焦点 / 極度性（extremeness） / 極性焦点（polarity focus) / 直示倒置（deictic inv.） / 引用句倒置（quotative inv.） / 二項名詞句（binoninal NPs） |
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| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
On the basis of his observations on focus-related linguistic phenomena in Romance languages, Cruschina (2011) proposed a new hypothesis that focus movement is divided into two types: contrastive focus movement and non-contrastive focus movement. By exploring the syntactic and information-structural semantic properties of the following focus-related linguistic phenomena in English, this research project aimed to provide additional support on Cruschina's hypothesis with the emphasis of research on the latter type of focus movement: polarity-related inversion sentences (i.e. negative inversion and so-inversion), quotative inversion, and binominal NPs. The empirical findings of this research project demonstrated that these linguistic phenomena syntactically realize non-contrastive focus by means of fronting operations.
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| Free Research Field |
生成統語論
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| Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements |
Cruschina (2011)は、ロマンス諸語の焦点移動現象の観察に基づき、「焦点移動は対比的焦点移動と非対比的焦点移動の2種類に分かれる」という新仮説を提唱していたが、他言語から当該仮説を支持する経験的証拠は十分に提出されていなかった。本研究プロジェクトでは、極性焦点移動現象（否定倒置文とso倒置文）、述部倒置文、直示倒置文、引用句倒置文、2項名詞句を主な考察対象とし、非対比的焦点移動の存在を裏付ける独立した証拠を提出した。本プロジェクトは、Cruschinaを中心とする統語と焦点の写像関係を扱った理論の妥当性を支持するとともに、新たな言語事実を発掘した点で現象記述面での貢献にも寄与した。
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