A Diachronic and Synchronic Study of Present Participles in English
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16H07398
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Research Activity Start-up
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Research Field |
English linguistics
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| Research Institution | Akita National College of Technology |
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Principal Investigator |
Katsuya Sugiura 秋田工業高等専門学校, 創造システム工学科人文科学系, 講師 (40781498)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2016-08-26 – 2018-03-31
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| Project Status |
Completed (Fiscal Year 2017)
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| Budget Amount *help |
¥2,730,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,100,000、Indirect Cost: ¥630,000)
Fiscal Year 2017: ¥1,300,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,000,000、Indirect Cost: ¥300,000)
Fiscal Year 2016: ¥1,430,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,100,000、Indirect Cost: ¥330,000)
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| Keywords | 現在分詞 / 縮約関係節 / 主要部名詞繰り上げ分析 / 名詞前位修飾構造 / with構文 / 進行形 / 生成文法 / 史的統語論 / with独立分詞構文 / 前位修飾 / 後位修飾 / 英語の現在分詞 |
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| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
In the study of noun phrases postmodified by present participles, I adopted a head raising analysis of relative clauses. Based on the historical fact that reduced relative clauses appeared in Middle English(ME), I investigated the structure of the head noun and the determiner of the noun phrases postmodified by present participles in ME. I argued that the antecedent noun phrase of reduced relative clauses had the D structure in the fourteenth century, based on a construction in which a quantifier 'all' precedes the determiner 'the.' I showed that reduced relative clauses are explained properly under the head raising analysis.
In the study of noun phrases premodified by present participles, focusing on the function of the suffix '-ing,' I suggested the mechanism of the formation of present pariciples that behave as adjectives. In addition, I examined the historical development of noun phrases premodified by present participles that select experiencers as their object.
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