2012 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
Study of the tense system of French from the viewpoint of discourse
| Project/Area Number |
22520430
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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 |
Linguistics
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| Research Institution | Kyoto University |
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Principal Investigator |
TOGO Yuji 京都大学, 大学院・人間・環境学研究科, 教授 (10135486)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2010 – 2012
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| Keywords | 仏語学 |
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| Research Abstract |
We investigated how tenses of French form a system with the assumption that tenses must be analyzed not within a single sentence, but at discourse level. French tenses are divided into two groups : those which take the speech time (t0) as center and those which take a past time (t1) as center. Note that the future doesn’t form an independent domain. Tenses of French work on how these two domains are activated. We also showed that viewpoint plays an important role in the interpretation of tenses
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