A diachronic and synchronic study of light verbs in English

2015 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 25870871
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Research Field: English linguistics; Linguistics
• Research Institution: Fujita Health University
• Principal Investigator: KUME YUSUKE 藤田保健衛生大学, 医学部, 講師 (40645173)
• Project Period (FY): 2013-04-01 – 2016-03-31
• Keywords: 統語論 / 生成文法 / 言語変化 / 文法化

Outline of Final Research Achievements

This study aimed to clarify the historical development of cognate object constructions by analyzing the data from historical corpora and give a theoretical and empirical account to idiosyncrasies of the construction in Present-day English. More precisely, manner cognate object constructions underwent the structural change from vP to RP, proposed in Den Dikken (2006), due to the inflectional leveling between ME and EModE. And the RP analysis is applied to have light verb constructions. In the course of the development, have underwent grammaticalization to become a light verb and its event nominal came to be analyzed into a predicate nominal.

Free Research Field

英語学