2011 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
Semantic Properties of Adjectives Modifying Events in English
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22720195
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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 | 高知県立大学 (2011)
Kochi Women's University (2010) |
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| Project Period (FY) |
2010 – 2011
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| Keywords | 意味論 / 形容詞 / 事象 / 意味拡張 / 構文 |
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| Research Abstract |
In English, the fixed syntactic string,[NP-V-a/one's-A-N], has various meanings. The following instances are made up of this syntactic string : Have a constructions, cognate object constructions, transferred epithets, and Way constructions where an adjective modifies one's way. I will examine the semantic properties of these four instances in detail, and then explore their semantic networks. The conclusion of this study is twofold. First, what is in common with these four instances is that an adjective modifies an event denoted by an object NP of the verb. Secondly, these modification relations are normal in that an adjective modifies its following noun, and thus these relations should be listed in the system of the grammar in English.
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[Remarks] (招待講義)(1)金澤俊吾、「英語における形容詞の修飾について-転移修飾語のしくみ-」、京都外国語大学Mebius Summer Session 2010、2010年9月13日、京都セミナーハウス招待講義
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[Remarks] (書評)(1)金澤俊吾、「アリス・ダイグナン著、渡辺秀樹、大森文子、加野まきみ、小塚良孝訳(2010)『コーパスを活用した認知言語学』」、「英語コーパス学会Newsletter」、72号、2011年、pp. 4-7.書評
