2013 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
Syntactic Considerations of Predicate Meanings and Event Types: Towards Constructing Functional Category Syntax
| Project/Area Number |
23320089
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B)
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Research Field |
Linguistics
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| Research Institution | Kanda University of International Studies |
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Principal Investigator |
HASEGAWA Nobuko 神田外語大学, その他の研究科, 教授 (20208490)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2011-04-01 – 2014-03-31
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| Keywords | 統語論 / 機能範疇 / アスペクト / 属性解釈 / 時制解釈 / 日本語統語論 / ミニマリストプログラム / カートグラフィー |
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| Research Abstract |
This research project is mainly concerned with how the tense and aspectual interpretations of events, which are supposed to be relevant to lexical properties of predicates, can be syntactically captured. The phenomena taken up include the sentences of property ascription, dual interpretations of 'te-iru', progressive state and result state, and the interchangeability of perfective 'ta' and result state 'te-iru', which are to do with the presence or absence of an agent subject and/or of the generic interpretation on tense, and the stativity of a predicate. In explaining these peculiar phenomena, AspP, a functional category that takes place between vP and TP, and syntactic operations relevant to this category play a crucial role, by way of which more than one sentence type is given rise to from the same vP.
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