2012 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
The Adaptive Change of English Syntactic Structure: The Rise of Functional Categories
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22520509
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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 | Nihon University |
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| Project Period (FY) |
2010 – 2012
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| Keywords | 英語史 / 統語変化 / 言語進化 / 機能範疇 |
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| Research Abstract |
This research investigated how adaptively English has changed in its history on the basis of its syntactic change. Specifically, dealing with the development of conjunctions, the rise of complementizer that, the change of structural licensing in the Double Object Construction and the development of a monoclausal structure of cleft constructions, I demonstrated how closely these linguistic phenomena were related. In addition, I proposed the possibility of recapturing these phenomena as the microevolutionof language.
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Research Products
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