How do labels work at the interfaces: cross-linguistic syntactic study on agreement phenomena

2022 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 21K19987
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Research Activity Start-up
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Review Section: 0102:Literature, linguistics, and related fields
• Research Institution: Nanzan University (2022); Kyushu University (2021)
• Principal Investigator: Hayashi Norimasa 南山大学, 国際教養学部, 講師 (00908171)
• Project Period (FY): 2021-08-30 – 2023-03-31
• Keywords: 生成文法 / ミニマリストプログラム / ラベル / インターフェイス / 一致 / 格

Outline of Final Research Achievements

This study aims to explain how the syntactic structures constructed in syntax are interpreted at the interfaces based on their labels. Traditionally, agreement phenomena and Case assignment mechanism were assumed to be explained in syntax. However, this study has considered these phenomena in terms of the interpretive rules at the interfaces and has shown that various agreement and Case patterns found in human languages are explained uniformly in the proposed framework. Also, this study has considered such phenomena as Japanese and English relative clauses, copy relations, and German partial wh movement based on the proposed interpretive rules at the interfaces and has contributed to the progress of the theory of generative grammar.

Free Research Field

生成文法

Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements

本研究は、ミニマリストプログラムの枠組みの下で、構造構築部門である統語論で作られた構造に与えられるラベルが、構造解釈においてどのような役割を担うかを考察し、インターフェイスでの解釈のメカニズムを明らかにした。様々な言語に見られる一致、格付与システムが提案するメカニズムにおいて統一的に捉えられることを示し、人間言語の一見したところの多様性と、それらの背後にある共通性を示し、文法理論構築に寄与した。