2016 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
Possibilities of Multidominance Structures in Generative Grammar
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26580086
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Exploratory Research
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| Allocation Type | Multi-year Fund |
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| Research Field |
English linguistics
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| Research Institution | Kyushu Institute of Technology |
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Principal Investigator |
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| Project Period (FY) |
2014-04-01 – 2017-03-31
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| Keywords | 生成文法 / 極小主義 / 多重支配 / 統語構造 / グラフ理論 / 線状化 / 併合操作 / 投射ラベル |
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| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
The Merge operation in the current Minimalist Program of the Generative Grammar has the following three minimal conditions, except for the cases of head movement, which is controversial: a) one of the input term is a root category, b) the other input term is either a maximal projection or a minimal projection, and c) the output is a root category. The controversial head movement can also be brought under the same three minimal conditions if a head moves into a specifier as ‘substitution,’ and multidominance structures can also be generated as a natural consequence, obeying the three conditions.
Furthermore, it is explicated that in the latest framework of the labeling algorithm where projection labels are derivationally determined by the algorithm, phonological linearization is possible by graph-theoretical tree traversal algorithms after pruning multi-dominating branches.
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| Free Research Field |
人文学 言語学 英語学 文法理論
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