2016 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
A Top-down Approach to Anaphora
Project/Area Number |
25370552
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Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
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Allocation Type | Multi-year Fund |
Section | 一般 |
Research Field |
English linguistics
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Research Institution | Osaka Kyoiku University |
Principal Investigator |
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Project Period (FY) |
2013-04-01 – 2017-03-31
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Keywords | 生成文法 / ミニマリスト・プログラム / 移動のコピー理論 / トップダウン派生 |
Outline of Final Research Achievements |
This research adopted the framework of generative grammar to explore pronominal anaphora within an approach to the computation of human language, according to which sentence structure is built up in a top-down fashion. The aim of this research was threefold: (1) It considered the appropriateness of analyses in which an anaphor is replaced by a pronoun when the latter is stressed. (2) It pointed out potential problems with Cecchetto and Donati’s (2010) claim that the reference of a pronoun is determined as a result of a labeling process. (3) It considered the validity of an alternative theory in which movement of part of an antecedent creates a copy and the copy serves as a pronoun that refers back to the antecedent.
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Free Research Field |
英語学
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