On the Relation between Focalization, Topicalization and Ellipsis of Verb Phrases and Functional Categories

2017 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 25370544
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: English linguistics
• Research Institution: Tokyo Institute of Technology
• Principal Investigator: Ishihara Yuki 東京工業大学, リベラルアーツ研究教育院, 教授 (40242078)
• Project Period (FY): 2013-04-01 – 2018-03-31
• Keywords: 動詞句 / 焦点 / 強調

Outline of Final Research Achievements

This research has investigated constructions in which Verb Phrases occur in positions different from the unmarked position or in forms different from the unmarked form, and proposed adequate structures and derivations for them. For example, in the predicate doubling construction where a predicate is repeated twice, it is argued that a predicate raises to a functional category in a high position in the clause and is pronounced there as well as in the position where it has originated. VP-focus pseudo-cleft sentences and the affirmative negative emphatic construction were also examined in this study.

Free Research Field

統語論