2012 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
A New Direction of Construction Grammar: Through Another Look at the Pretty Construction in English
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23720257
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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 |
English linguistics
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| Research Institution | Kobe Women's University (2012)
Kyushu Sangyo University (2011) |
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Principal Investigator |
MINAMI Yusuke 神戸女子大学, 文学部, 准教授 (40552211)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2011 – 2012
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| Keywords | 英語 / Pretty 構文 / 知覚動詞 / 構文理論 / 構文の意味 / 文脈 |
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| Research Abstract |
This study was an attempt to give a cognitive construction-grammar analysis of specific sub-constructions of the Pretty constructions,especially the ones with a particular verb of vision specified (e.g.look at). First, it was claimed that the construction with look at indicates one’s contrasting evaluations about a targeted entity. Second, building upon the finding that a set of instances of the specific sub-construction with see are semantically connected with an idiomatic construction for all to see, it was shown that for all to see is composed of a cluster of constructions. Both of these results strongly support the methodology as advanced in the cognitive school of construction grammar.
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