2011 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
Studies in reconstruction phenomena the phase-theory
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21520500
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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 | Yamagata University |
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| Project Period (FY) |
2009 – 2011
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| Keywords | 再構築化 / 束縛 / 派生 / マージ / 移動 / フェイズ |
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| Research Abstract |
The research focuses on the examination of the nature of the syntactic operation of adjunction that adjoins an adjunct to its host constituent and on the organization of the grammar that incorporates such an operation. In the literature, what is called "late adjunction" has been treated differently from regular syntactic operations. It is argued, however, that under the current linguistic theory (in terms of the notion of phase), the operation is in principle available, with its consequences severely constrained by other modes of the grammar such as Linearization and semantic interpretation. Applying late adjunction to the generation of the structures that involve referentially dependent noun phrases, it is shown that verb phrase domains (vPs) are made good use of in syntactic operations, lending support to the phase theory.
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