2013 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
Ellipsis of quotative predicates in Japanese
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23720202
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)
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| Allocation Type | Multi-year Fund |
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| Research Field |
Linguistics
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| Research Institution | Nagoya University |
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| Project Period (FY) |
2011 – 2013
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| Keywords | 引用構文 / 話法 / 省略 / 慣用表現 |
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| Research Abstract |
This research addressed the "quotative predicate ellipsis (QPE)" phenomenon in the Japanese language, where the speech predicate "iu" or the psychological predicate "omou", which typically serves as a clause-head, is elided from a quotative construction. After reviewing existing studies, I classified the QPE phenomenon into several subtypes and examined the morphological property, functional characteristics, and the distribution of each variety. Also, I made side-by-side comparison of two major approaches to the QPE phenomenon and considered the advantages and disadvantages of each.
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