How to recover ellipstic elements in terms of extra-linsuistic information

2015 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 24520414
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Linguistics
• Research Institution: Hokkaido University
• Principal Investigator: Oku Satoshi 北海道大学, 大学院メディア・コミュニケーション研究院, 教授 (70224144)
• Project Period (FY): 2012-04-01 – 2016-03-31
• Keywords: 項削除 / 情報構造 / 焦点効果 / 項選択

Outline of Final Research Achievements

The current study is on the syntactic mechanism of how phonologically empty elements are semantically recovered within the theoretical framework of generative grammar. The research has revealed that (de-)focusing effect plays a crucial role in ellipsis phenomena not only of arguments but also of adjuncts. The result of the work has been presented in national/international proceedings/journals and conferences.

Free Research Field

言語学