Historical development of the Chinese Grammar; Investigation of its Correlative Changing Processes of the Grammatical Constructions and Categories

2014 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 23320082
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B)
• Allocation Type: Single-year Grants
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Linguistics
• Research Institution: The University of Tokyo
• Principal Investigator: ONISHI Katsuya 東京大学, 人文社会系研究科, 教授 (10272452)
• Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha): KIMURA Hideki 東京大学, 大学院人文社会系研究科, 教授 (20153207) ; KIZU Yuko 京都大学, 大学院文学研究科, 教授 (90242990) ; MATSUE Takashi 北海道大学, 文学研究科, 准教授 (90344530)
• Co-Investigator(Renkei-kenkyūsha): YANG Kairong 東京大学, 大学院総合文化研究科, 教授 (00248543) ; IIDA Maki 北海道大学, 大学院国際広報メディア・観光学院, 准教授 (50401427)
• Project Period (FY): 2011-11-18 – 2015-03-31
• Keywords: 言語学 / 歴史文法 / 構文 / 文法範疇 / レファレンス / 存在 / 概念 / 実体

Outline of Final Research Achievements

In this project, four researchers studying Chinese grammar in different periods, cooperated and aimed to investigate correlative changing processes of its grammatical constructions and categories by referring to theoretical results of research of the modern Chinese grammar, and made a lot of achievement. Particularly our study produced result to overturn general knowledge about formation and transition of referential categories, the existential constructions, and numeral-classifier constructions, and thus contributed greatly to methodology of the historical linguistics.

Free Research Field

中国語学