2013 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
A study of synchronic side of grammaticalization in Japanese
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22520469
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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 |
Japanese linguistics
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| Research Institution | Okayama University |
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Principal Investigator |
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| Project Period (FY) |
2010-04-01 – 2014-03-31
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| Keywords | 文法化 / モダリティー / テンス / 時間的限定性 / テクスト / 可能 |
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| Research Abstract |
In this study, as part of a study of synchronic side of grammaticalization, I investigated how epistemic modality and objective modality had been grammaticalized in contemporary Japanese, focusing my concentration on interacting with temporal categories (i.e., tense and temporal localization) and textual structure in pragmatic use of language.
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