2014 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
A diachronical study on the development of sentence structures caused by some functional changes of verbs in Modern Chinese
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23520499
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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 | Niigata University |
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Principal Investigator |
FUJITA Itsuko 新潟大学, 企画戦略本部, 准教授 (10284621)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2011-04-28 – 2015-03-31
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| Keywords | 漢語 / 近現代 / 動詞 / 機能 / 構文 |
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| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
Some modern Chinese verbs lose their original meanings and feature grammatical functions. This verb grammaticalization often brings the following results. 1) Prepositions emerge. 2) Causative and Passive structures are produced. 3) Some become complements giving specific meanings to main verbs. 4) Verb-origin complements showing the amount of some movement sometimes form reduplicative compound structures. These often affect one another and then; a) some combined verb structures occurred, b) particular sentence structures with both causative and passive functions appeared, and c) the meanings of some complements became more important than that of main verbs within sentences.
This has greatly influenced the modernization of Chinese and enables us to create sentences with more complicated contents.
To find out how forms, structures and functions change in Chinese, I did research on modern Chinese verbs both diachronically and synchronically and focused on the verb grammaticalization.
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| Free Research Field |
言語学
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