The role of number features in syntactic computation

2014 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 22520492
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Single-year Grants
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: English linguistics
• Research Institution: The University of Tokyo
• Principal Investigator: WATANABE Akira 東京大学, 人文社会系研究科, 准教授 (70265487)
• Project Period (FY): 2010-04-01 – 2015-03-31
• Keywords: 生成文法 / 素性 / 数 / 人称 / 極小主義 / 一致 / 統語演算 / 形態演算

Outline of Final Research Achievements

This project has established that minimal units of linguistic computation called features are provided with both the plus and minus values. It has also put forward a new theory of agreement according to which the process of valuation involved in agreement takes the form of deleting at least one of the values from, say, [+singular, -singular]. The project has also shown that in order to obtain meaningful results in this research area, it is necessary to carry out rigorous morphological analysis at the same time, presenting a research model that is expected to be influential in the future.

Free Research Field

英語学