The System of Sentence Patterns in French : On the Basis of Syntactical Functions-Lexicon and Transitivity-Complement

2015 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 25370466
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Linguistics
• Research Institution: Tokyo University of Foreign Studies
• Principal Investigator: TSURUGA YOICHIRO 東京外国語大学, その他部局等, 名誉教授 (30155444)
• Project Period (FY): 2013-04-01 – 2016-03-31
• Keywords: 文型 / 直接目的 / 間接目的 / 方向性位格 / 必須性 / 属詞 / 二重主題 / 非人称

Outline of Final Research Achievements

Sentence patterns are a fundamental of sentence construction. French sentence patterns are based on transitive, intransitive, pronominal, passive, impersonal verbs and nonverbal predication. Directional locatives correspond to nuclear arguments. And a constituent’s indispensability alone cannot necessarily identify one sentence pattern. Transitivity and complement, with which the others are closely related, are particularly important.
It is functionally appropriate to consider as second Direct Object the complements corresponding to nouns and adjectives in “Subject-Predicate-Direct Object-Complement” construction. In complements’ paradigms there are various elements and the construction itself is included in a larger subclass of constructions. It is necessary to identify carefully the double thematization of adjectival complement in intransitive complement sentences and which part is complement in impersonal constructions without personal subject.

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