2016 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
A Scalar Analysis of the Aspects of Motion Verbs and Their Typlological Generalization
Project/Area Number |
26770173
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Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)
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Allocation Type | Multi-year Fund |
Research Field |
English linguistics
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Research Institution | Nagoya University of Foreign Studies |
Principal Investigator |
Kawahara Koji 名古屋外国語大学, 外国語学部, 准教授 (70582542)
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Project Period (FY) |
2014-04-01 – 2017-03-31
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Keywords | 様態 / 経路 / スケール / 移動動詞 |
Outline of Final Research Achievements |
The purpose of this project is to provide a generalization for the typological survey of how languages encode directed motion events based on degree-based semantics. Talmy (1985, 2000) discusses the typological dichotomy of Satellite-framed languages and Verb-framed languages. In the former manner is encoded as a main verb and path must be a satellite, while in the latter path is encoded as a main verb and manner must be a subordinate adjunct. Following Beavers et al. (2010), I assume that the dichotomy is due to the fact that the verb is the root and single clause-lexical category that can encode either manner or path. Since the semantics of path can be characterized in terms of an abstract representation of measurement or scales, a variety of ways to encode reaching events can be described by scalar semantics.
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Free Research Field |
英語学
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