2013 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
On the role of the notion of degree in natural languages - Cognition and Constructions
| Project/Area Number |
23520576
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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 |
English linguistics
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| Research Institution | Tohoku University |
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Principal Investigator |
KIKUCHI Akira 東北大学, 情報科学研究科, 准教授 (80177790)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2011 – 2013
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| Keywords | 度合い / 比較構文 / 形容詞 / 関係節 / 日英語比較 |
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| Research Abstract |
This research is based on the idea that the cognitive notion of degrees, which is crucially involved in the human cognition of comparison, has far deeper impacts on the whole of the language system than it was previously considered, yielding various contributions to many constructions. In this research, I have shown the importance of this notion through the analyses of such constructions as comparatives, amount relative clauses, and adjectival modification mainly in English and Japanese.
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