Empirical Studies on the Morpho-syntactic Relationship Based on the Anti-lexicalism Model

2016 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 26370462
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Linguistics
• Research Institution: Kinjo Gakuin University
• Principal Investigator: MORITA Junya 金城学院大学, 文学部, 教授 (20200420)
• Project Period (FY): 2014-04-01 – 2017-03-31
• Keywords: 名詞化 / hapax / 創造性 / 反語彙主義 / 分散形態論

Outline of Final Research Achievements

The aim of this study is to reveal the morphological mechanism and its relation to syntactic mechanism by showing the system which regularly generates a variety of English and Japanese nominals. After classifying the similarities and differences of English and Japanese nominal derivatives and compounds based on extensive observation of them, I have proposed relevant models on the nominal system: ① the model of “well-distributed word formation,” which optimally distributes each type of semantic, morphological, and syntactic information to each relevant grammatical module, and ② a “dynamic model of word formation,” which holds that creative word formation which productively coins complex words in syntactic/discursive environments may relax restrictions on morphosyntactic operations to expand morphological potential.

Free Research Field

形態論