2014 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
A Lexical Licensing Study on the Category Change of Nouns
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24520529
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
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| Allocation Type | Multi-year Fund |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Research Field |
English linguistics
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| Research Institution | Fukushima University |
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Principal Investigator |
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| Project Period (FY) |
2012-04-01 – 2015-03-31
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| Keywords | 範疇変化 / 連続的段階性 / 名詞 / 語彙認可 / 並列モデル |
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| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
We have analyzed the anomalous behaviors of certain nouns in such expressions as the pseudo-partitive construction and the adjectival noun construction in terms of lexical licensing. We have revealed that the anomalies reflect the hybrid nature of the nouns resulting from the interaction of changes of mutually independent factors constituting these constructions, and that the hybrid nature is captured as one of the predictable variations in the gradience found in the cline of a category change.
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| Free Research Field |
人文学
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