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2016 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

On creativity and universality of language observed in "sentence embedding"

Research Project

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Project/Area Number 24520429
Research Category

Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)

Allocation TypeMulti-year Fund
Section一般
Research Field Linguistics
Research InstitutionThe University of Tokyo (2015-2016)
Hiroshima University (2012-2014)

Principal Investigator

INABA Jiro  東京大学, 大学院総合文化研究科, 准教授 (10323461)

Project Period (FY) 2012-04-01 – 2017-03-31
Keywords文埋め込み / ドイツ語 / 語順 / 文補部 / 関係文 / 後域 / 名詞修飾表現
Outline of Final Research Achievements

In this project, I dealt with some aspects of sentence embedding and problems concerning word order within the principles and parameters approach, the main focus being placed on German. I demonstrated that one needs to give different syntactic characterizations to some of the constituents that appear in the "Nachfeld" ('post-field') in German, such as sentential complements, relative clauses, etc. As for various phenomena pertaining to word order, I presented an explanation for the observed facts based on the concept of economy of derivation. Through the analyses put forward here, especially of adnominal modification structures including relative clauses, I also tried to accommodate the observed data to the newest generative methodology, whereby word order is regulated in the phonological component.

Free Research Field

言語学

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Published: 2018-03-22  

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