2016 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
Diachronic investigation on interaction among form, semantic function, and syntactic functions of converted verbs in German
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25370461
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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 |
Linguistics
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| Research Institution | Musashi University (2015-2016)
University of Tsukuba (2013-2014) |
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Principal Investigator |
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| Project Period (FY) |
2013-04-01 – 2017-03-31
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| Keywords | ドイツ語史 / 古高ドイツ語 / 中高ドイツ語 / ドイツ語形態論 / ドイツ語語形成論 |
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| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
This research was an investigation on the relationship between the form, meaning and syntactic function of verbs derived from nouns and adjectives in German through a long period of historical development.
In modern German, many of the verbs derived from nouns and adjectives such as 'bewaffnen' <to make armed> and 'entleeren' <to make empty> are provided with a prefix. It was revealed in this research that this is not a conspicuous phenomenon in medieval German and that the use of prefixes has increased gradually in verb derivation from nouns expressing subjects of giving/taking or locations and from adjectives as well. In German, it seems that there was a historical development in which the prefix became part of derivation means in such verb derivations.
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| Free Research Field |
ドイツ語学
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