2012 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
From head-marking to dependent-marking in the history of English: A cross-linguistic view of English personal pronouns
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22720194
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Research Field |
English linguistics
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| Research Institution | Okinawa International University |
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| Project Period (FY) |
2010 – 2012
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| Keywords | 英語史 |
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| Research Abstract |
In Present Day English, (modal) verbs are morphonologically reduced onto pronominal subjects when they are juxtaposed e.g. it is > it’s. From a cross-linguistic perspective, the opposite dependency relation is much more common as seen in je aime ‘I love’ > j’aime in French. The survey results tell us that the Great Vowel Shift (GVS), which profoundly changed the way English words were pronounced roughly in 1500 through 1700, triggered such a weird morphonological relation in English.
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Research Products
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