2012 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
New Development of Syntactic Gradability Based on Syntactic Multiple Structure Hypothesis
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22520490
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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 | Saitama University |
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Principal Investigator |
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| Project Period (FY) |
2010 – 2012
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| Keywords | 文法 |
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| Research Abstract |
I criticized the traditional syntactic analysis held in generative grammar for decades and showed that the relevance of syntax to passivization is more restricted than have been thought, noting that they rather suggest that the semantic aspect of verbs is more relevant to passivization. I proposed an alternative way to explain passivization focusing mainly on argument structure of verbs rather than exclusively on the syntactic structure that a verb takes. I also examined some of the current government-approved English textbooks used in junior high schools, and pointed out several problems concerning grammatical descriptions and vocabulary from the viewpoint that the presentation order of educational materials should be from basic to advanced.
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Research Products
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