Aphraseologicaland descriptive studyof irregular constructions andexPressions in English

2012 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 23720256
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Research Field: English linguistics
• Research Institution: Setsunan University
• Principal Investigator: SUMIYOSHI Makoto 摂南大学, 外国語学部外国語学科, 准教授 (10441106)
• Project Period (FY): 2011 – 2012
• Keywords: フレイジオロジー / 変則的構文 / 英語の語法 / 英語の実証的研究 / 複合前置詞句 / valency patterns / phrases

Research Abstract

This project aimed at delving phraseologically into irregular English constructions and expressions consisting of more than one word. During the twoyears of research, a wide variety of constructions and expressions showing some kind ofirregularity were dealt with, including the newly-created conjunct not only that but,verb and adjective valency patterns, on account of as a clause linkage marker and plase-placed to-infinitive clauses. As scheduled at the beginning of this project, itrevealed many interesting facts concerning these irregular constructions, on the basisof empirical data from corpora

Research Products

• [Presentation] Phrases shapingup!:Phraseology and language change (2013)
  • Author(s): Makoto Sumiyoshi
  • Organizer: The Seventh Conference of the Japan Societyfor Phraseology
  • Place of Presentation: 早稲田大学
  • Year and Date: 2013-03-16
• [Presentation] 現代英語の変化を考える一"please"-placed"to"-infinitivesを題材に一 (2012)
  • Author(s): 住吉誠
  • Organizer: 関西英語語法文法研究会第25回例会
  • Place of Presentation: 関西学院大学
  • Year and Date: 2012-12-15
• [Presentation] "On account of"as a clause linkage marker (2012)
  • Author(s): Makoto Sumiyoshi
  • Organizer: 4th International Conference ofEnglish Language and Literature Studies:Embracing Edges (ELLSEE), EnglishDepartment, Faculty of Philology
  • Place of Presentation: University of Belgrade (Belgrade, Serbia)
  • Year and Date: 2012-12-08
• [Presentation] Valency patternsin dictionaries (2012)
  • Author(s): Makoto Sumiyoshi
  • Organizer: Europhras 2012
  • Place of Presentation: University of Maribor, Maribor,Slovenia
  • Year and Date: 2012-08-28
• [Presentation] "Not only that"asa conjunct: the emergence of a newconnective adverbial in present-dayEnglish (2011)
  • Author(s): Makoto Sumiyoshi
  • Organizer: 4th internationalconference of the linguistics of contemporary English
  • Place of Presentation: University of Osnabrueck, Osnabrueck, Germany
  • Year and Date: 2011-07-22
• [Book] Kyotoifozking Papers in Engli'sh and GeneTalLillgu-istics (2013)
  • Author(s): Makoto Sumiyoshi他
  • Total Pages: 1-337
  • Publisher: 開拓社
• [Book] 21世紀英語研究の諸相言語と文化からの視点 (2012)
  • Author(s): 住吉誠他
  • Total Pages: 1-556
  • Publisher: 開拓社
• [Book] Phraseology and Discourse: Cross Linguistic Corpus-based Approaches (2012)
  • Author(s): Makoto Sumiyoshi 他
  • Total Pages: 1-448
  • Publisher: Schneider Verlag Hohengehren GmbH
• [Book] Research of Phraseology in Europe and Asia: Focal Issues on Phraseological Studies(Intercontinental Dialogue on Phraseology,Vol.1) (2011)
  • Author(s): Makoto Sumiyoshi 他
  • Total Pages: 1-437
  • Publisher: University of Bialystok Publishing House
• [Book] Kyo to Working Pappers in English and General Linguistics (1) (2011)
  • Author(s): Makoto Sumiyoshi 他
  • Total Pages: 1-360
  • Publisher: 開拓社