2013 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
A study of the subjecthood and the interpretations of arguments introduced by functional categories
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23520459
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
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| Allocation Type | Multi-year Fund |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Research Field |
Linguistics
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| Research Institution | University of Yamanashi |
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| Project Period (FY) |
2011 – 2013
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| Keywords | 統語論 / 主語 / 機能範疇 / 副詞 / 叙述 / 位置変化構文 / 英語 / 日本語 |
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| Research Abstract |
Noun phrases occurring as subjects or objects in human languages are interpreted by being assigned a certain role such as agent or patient (semantic role) concerning how they are involved in the event described by the predicate of the sentence. The particular semantic role each noun phrase bears is determined by where the noun phrase appears in phrase structure of the sentence. It is claimed that there is a general rule governing the assignement of semantic roles to noun phrases in human languages. The present reasearch has brought to light a relation between the subjecthood and the volitionality of noun phrases through an investigation into mental-attitude adverbs and infinitival purpose clauses in English and Japanese.
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