2017 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
Exploring the Nature of Structure-Building Mechanism and its Theoretical Consequences
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26370457
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
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| Allocation Type | Multi-year Fund |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Research Field |
Linguistics
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| Research Institution | Keio University |
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Principal Investigator |
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| Project Period (FY) |
2014-04-01 – 2018-03-31
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| Keywords | 生成文法理論 / ミニマリスト・プログラム / 言語の普遍性と多様性 / 統語構造 / 併合 / ラベル付け / 値が設定されていない素性 / 最適化の制約 |
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| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
This study proposed to identify the observed syntactic differences between English and Japanese, two typologically distinct languages, as consequences of the presence of unvalued features, not from the presence (or absence) of feature agreement. Specifically, it investigated the structure-building operation Merge, the labeling algorithm, the unvalued features, and how these three factors interact to generate syntactic structures. In particular, it clarified the crucial roles of unvalued features concerning how syntactic structures formed by Internal Merge get labeled in English and in Japanese.
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| Free Research Field |
理論言語学（統語論）
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