2013 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
A lexical-semantic approach to valence expansion and its morphosyntactic realization in comparative studies in Japanese, English and German
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23520497
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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 | Tokyo University of Foreign Studies |
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Principal Investigator |
FUJINAWA Yasuhiro 東京外国語大学, 大学院総合国際学研究院, 准教授 (60253291)
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| Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) |
IMAIZUMI Shinako 愛媛大学, 法文学部, 准教授 (90324839)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2011 – 2013
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| Keywords | 言語学 / 語彙意味論 / 日本語 / 英語 / ドイツ語 / 所有 / 与格 |
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| Research Abstract |
Japanese, English and German have morphological and syntactic properties "partially" in common; while Japanese and German have SOV-type word order, where accusative and dative cases are marked distinctively, English has SVO-type word order, and does not have such a distinction in case marking. On the other hand, subjects must be realized overtly in English and German, while subjects need not be realized overtly in Japanese. Through the comparative studies of these three languages, we have suggested that a range of grammatical phenomena, which have been mainly regarded as language-specific properties so far, can be analyzed and formalized uniformly under the notion of "Valence Expansion". Also we have clarified that the semantic notion of "Possession of Event" typically triggers valence expansion in these languages, where the ways of argument realization are determined chiefly in accordance with the agreement morphology and aspectual properties in the lexical representation of verbs.
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Research Products
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[Remarks] 図書③が日本独文学会誌『ドイツ文学』148号 (2013) の書評に取り上げられた。本書全体について,「〔文法的な諸特徴を解き明かす『面白さ』を理解してもらうという〕目標は十分に達成されていると思う」と評価された上で,研究代表者が分担執筆した部分についても,能格性についての解説が「とても分かりやすく書かれている」,「本章の与格の分類の概観は参考になる」など,好意的に受け止められた。
