A functional typological study of sentence-final noun modifying and nominalization constructions: Pragmatic functions and cross-constructional continuity

2016 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 25370429
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Linguistics
• Research Institution: Nagoya University
• Principal Investigator: Horie Kaoru 名古屋大学, 国際言語文化研究科, 教授 (70181526)
• Project Period (FY): 2013-04-01 – 2017-03-31
• Keywords: 文末連体構文 / 文末名詞化構文 / 機能類型論 / 語用論的機能 / 連続性 / 日韓語 / 文法化 / 構文化

Outline of Final Research Achievements

This study presents a functional typological analysis of sentence-final noun-modifying constructions (e.g. [Totuzen hiraku] doa. 'The door which opens suddently.') and sentence-final nominalizations (e.g. [Totuzen doa ga aita] no. 'That the door opens suddenly. (I just relalized)'). Both of these constructions have occur in sentence-final positions in Japanese and Korean which have the same SOV word order. This study prented a functional typological analysis of these constructions in Japanese and Korean and has revealed both parallelism and differences in structures and pragmatic functions.

Free Research Field

言語類型論、対照言語学