2016 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
Split intransitivity in Japanese and Ryukyuan languages: focusing on case marking
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26370549
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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 |
Japanese linguistics
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| Research Institution | Seijo University |
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Principal Investigator |
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| Research Collaborator |
NIINAGA Yuto 成城大学, 非常勤講師
GOTO Mutsumi 大阪大学, 大学院文学研究科
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| Project Period (FY) |
2014-04-01 – 2017-03-31
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| Keywords | 分裂自動詞性 / 本州方言 / 九州方言 / 琉球諸語 / 格標示 / イントネーション / 内在的主題性 / 脱主題化 |
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| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
This research was carried out with the main focus on split intransitivity in case marking in Kyoto Japanese, Kumamoto Japanese, Kudaka Ryukyuan and Yonaguni Ryukyuan. The conclusion is summed up into the following three points. (1)When agentive and non-agentive subjects are not topic, only agentive subjects are detopicalized by a kind of subject marking due to their inherent topicality. Split intransitivity in case marking is explained from the viewpoint of detopicalization. (2)Kyoto Japanese shows split intransitivity in intonation, and methods for detopicalization can include intonation as well as case marking. (3)Null subjects are divided into topic and non-topic in terms of split intransitivity.
Moreover, taking it into consideration that split intransitivity in Kyoto and Yonaguni is limited with respect to information structure, it is necessary that we explain split intransitivity on the basis of not the Unaccusative Hypothesis but inherent topicality and detopicalization.
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| Free Research Field |
言語学・日本語学
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