2023 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
On the establishment of the epistemic uses of German future
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21K00497
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
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| Allocation Type | Multi-year Fund |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Review Section |
Basic Section 02060:Linguistics-related
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| Research Institution | Tohoku University |
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Principal Investigator |
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| Project Period (FY) |
2021-04-01 – 2024-03-31
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| Keywords | ドイツ語学 / 歴史言語学 |
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| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
The German future to express inferences about a present state is based on the use of the German future which expresses general statements both in the future and in the present. It is difficult to distinguish between the future and the present in generalizations, therefore it is not possible to determine when the use of the future tense to express inferences about the present time began, but such ambiguous formulations are the real state how the use of the future to express inferences about the present time began. However, there remains a possibility that the epistemic usage of the modal verb + perfect infinitive influenced the establishment of the future perfect that expresses speculation about the past, and from there the usage of the future for inferences in the present time was established.
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| Free Research Field |
ドイツ語学
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| Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements |
もしドイツ語の未来形の現在の事態についての推量の用法が、未来も現在も表す一般論の用法にもとづくとすれば、他の言語においても見られる未来形の現在時の推量の用法が同じように一般論的用法にもとづく可能性があると言える。その場合、言語の違いを超えて人間の思考の枠組みの類似が世代がつながる歴史的名時間の中で見られることになる。その意味ではこの未来形の研究は言語学全般にとって有益であるだけではなく、人類学的にも人間の普遍性を表す事例を提供することができると考えられる。
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