Study on meaning of the Japanese intransitive construction

2015 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 25370527
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Japanese linguistics
• Research Institution: Otsuma Women's University (2014-2015); Wako University (2013)
• Principal Investigator: AMANO Midori (天野みどり) 大妻女子大学, 文学部, 教授 (10201899)
• Project Period (FY): 2013-04-01 – 2016-03-31
• Keywords: 構文 / 接続助詞 / のが / それが / 意味拡張 / 構文的意味 / 変化自動詞 / 逸脱文

Outline of Final Research Achievements

We have several knowledge about the meaning of the constructions, namely the abstract meaning of the specific sentence types, and by making full use of that, understand the meaning of the actual sentences.
In this study, we considered the intransitive construction mainly. We　investigated several sentences with the feature which deviated from noam of the intransitive construction. As a result, it became clear that native speakers catch the various appropriate constructive features on the context, infer that the strange sentence belongs to the specific intransitive construction hypothetically, and interpret the meaning of the deviating sentence adjustably.

Free Research Field

日本語学