A study on the left and right peripheries in non-main clauses and related grammatical phenomena

2017 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 26370570
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: English linguistics
• Research Institution: Miyazaki Municipal University
• Principal Investigator: Fukuda Minoru 宮崎公立大学, 人文学部, 教授 (00228917)
• Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha): 北峯 裕士 北九州市立大学, 外国語学部, 教授 (30234272) ; 中村 浩一郎 名桜大学, 国際学部, 教授 (50279064) ; 古川 武史 福岡工業大学, 社会環境学部, 教授 (80238667)
• Project Period (FY): 2014-04-01 – 2018-03-31
• Keywords: 周辺部 / カートグラフィー / ミニマリスト・プログラム / 話題化 / 焦点化 / ラベル / 右方移動 / 前置詞句

Outline of Final Research Achievements

The results of our study can be summarized as follows. First, assuming Rizzi’s (1997) cartographic analysis of left peripheries, we have proposed a new analysis of the left and right peripheries of main and subordinate clauses as well as lower categories such as vP in English and Japanese. Second, we have examined right movement phenomena (e.g. extraposition in English) to indicate that Chomsky’s (2013, 2015) labeling theory can be applied to the analysis of the right peripheries in English. Third, under the assumption that Rizzi’s (1997) cartographic analysis is applicable to non-sentential categories such as nominal phrases (i.e. DPs) and prepositional phrases (i.e. PPs), we have pointed out, for example, that some DPs and PPs show clausal properties. We have investigated into the Kumamoto dialect of Japanese and the historical change of English to indicate that the relevant facts are explicable in terms of our new analysis.

Free Research Field

言語学、英語学、文法、統語論