A Study on the "Habitat Segregations" of Prepositions through Idiomatic Phrases: For the Research on Homology, Creation of Self-Study Materials, and the Cooperation between High School and University

2015 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 24720215
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Research Field: English linguistics
• Research Institution: Shinshu University
• Principal Investigator: HANAZAKI Miki 信州大学, 学術研究院人文科学系, 准教授 (80345727)
• Project Period (FY): 2012-04-01 – 2016-03-31
• Keywords: 前置詞 / 多義 / 高大連携

Outline of Final Research Achievements

This study has conducted a “semantic” research on very “polysemous” prepositions, which are usually regarded mistakenly as “function” words, i.e., void of semantic meanings, through looking closely at their idiomatic phrases, in order to provide a key to the homology studies on English and Japanese.

Free Research Field

英語学、意味論