Two kinds of subjectivity and their lexicalization and construction patterns in Asian languages: A cognitive-typological research

2015 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 24520416
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Linguistics
• Research Institution: Tohoku University
• Principal Investigator: UEHARA Satoshi 東北大学, 高度教養教育・学生支援機構, 教授 (20292352)
• Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha): ONO NAOYUKI 東北大学, 国際文化研究科, 教授 (50214185) ; NARROG HEIKO 東北大学, 国際文化研究科, 教授 (40301923)
• Co-Investigator(Renkei-kenkyūsha): IKEGAMI YOSHIHIKO 東京大学, 教養部, 名誉教授 (90012327) ; YAMANASI MASAAKI 関西外国語大学, 外国語学研究科, 教授 (80107086)
• Research Collaborator: Kingkarn Thepkanjana Chulalongkorn University, Linguistics Department, Associate Professor ; Kanokwan Laohaburanakit-Katagiri Chulalongkorn University, East Asian Department, Associate Professor ; William Croft University of New Mexico, Linguistics Department, Professor ; Robert Sanders University of Auckland, Faculty of Letters, Senior Lecturer
• Project Period (FY): 2012-04-01 – 2016-03-31
• Keywords: 主観性 / 主体性 / 認知言語学 / 言語類型論 / アジア諸言語 / 事象構造

Outline of Final Research Achievements

We have made cognitive linguistic investigations on Asian languages in terms of linguistic subjectivity to examine its patterns of variation for its typological classification. This research based the notion of subjectivity on the recent advancement in the Cognitive Linguistic studies of linguistic subjectivity, proposed a 4-way classification of subjective expressions, and utilized the contrastive linguistic methods in linguistic typology in investigating patterns of lexicalization and grammaticalization of the subjective expressions. One of the research findings is that languages can be classified into types and subtypes in terms of subjectivity.

Free Research Field

言語学