2015 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
Research on Semantic Functions of Complicated Reduplication Forms in Chinese
Project/Area Number |
25770142
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Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)
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Allocation Type | Multi-year Fund |
Research Field |
Linguistics
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Research Institution | University of Tsukuba |
Principal Investigator |
IKEDA Susumu 筑波大学, 人文社会系, 助教 (40568680)
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Project Period (FY) |
2013-04-01 – 2016-03-31
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Keywords | 重畳形式 / 複畳形式 / 中国語 / 描写性 |
Outline of Final Research Achievements |
This research project aimed at describing the correspondence between morphological and semantic features of complicated reduplication forms in Chinese, especially the AABB forms. A comprehensive investigation was made of AABB forms constructed from verbal or nominal morphemes using a large-scale corpus and some important features of AABBs were examined, for example (i) functions of AABBs have a close connection with their base forms; (ii) “increased quantity,” the core meaning of the verb or noun AABB forms, often changes into “stativity” when its base form indicates small or unbounded objects; and (iii) these stative AABBs derived from “increased quantity” are often used as predicates or adverbial modifiers in clauses.
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Free Research Field |
中国語学
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