A extended Study of Modality in French and Japanese

2017 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 25370422
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Linguistics
• Research Institution: University of Tsukuba
• Principal Investigator: Watanabe Jun-ya 筑波大学, 人文社会系, 准教授 (20349210)
• Co-Investigator(Renkei-kenkyūsha): HAYASE Naoko 大阪大学, 言語文化研究科, 准教授 (00263179)
• Project Period (FY): 2013-04-01 – 2018-03-31
• Keywords: モダリティ / フランス語 / 日本語 / ロマンス諸語 / 認知モード

Outline of Final Research Achievements

This study investigated various manifestations of the modality in grammatical categories such as verbal moods and tenses, modal (semi-)auxiliaries, adverbials in French, romance languages and Japanese. In particular, I showed the way in which the modality results in appearing in various language phenomena, including conditional mood, subjunctive mood, imperfective tense, tense de dicto and aspects de dicto, future tenses, modal (semi) auxiliaries pouvoir, devoir, falloir, sembler etc, gerundive, multi-voicedness, hearsay and modes of cognition.

Free Research Field

人文学