A Crosslinguistic Study of Case Frames in Nonfinite Clauses

2016 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 26370434
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Linguistics
• Research Institution: Tohoku University
• Principal Investigator: NAKAMURA Wataru 東北大学, 高度教養教育・学生支援機構, 准教授 (90293117)
• Project Period (FY): 2014-04-01 – 2017-03-31
• Keywords: 格 / 役割指示文法 / 非定形節 / 格階層

Outline of Final Research Achievements

This research has explained the crosslinguistic variation of the case-marking of subjects of infinitival constructions within the framework of Role and Reference Grammar (Van Valin 2005), in particular the layered structure of the clause [LSC] and the typology of complex clauses based on the LSC, the set of case assignment constraints, case hierarchy (markedness hierarchy of case morphemes), and the domain of case assignment ("core" vs. "clause"). Specifically, this research has not only derived the contrast between Russian and Icelandic with respect to the case-marking of their infinitival subjects from the domains of case assignment in the two languages and the case hierarchy, but also has accounted for the case alternation of infinitival subjects of desiderative constructions in Japanese from their syntactic structures (core subordination vs. core coordination) and the domain of case assignment in Japanese.

Free Research Field

言語学