On the relations between non-referentiality of personal pronouns and irrealis mood in Chinese
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20720103
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Research Field |
Linguistics
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| Research Institution | The University of Tokyo |
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Principal Investigator |
KOJIMA Miyuki The University of Tokyo, 大学院・総合文化研究科, 学術研究員 (10431777)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2008 – 2010
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| Project Status |
Completed (Fiscal Year 2010)
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| Budget Amount *help |
¥1,950,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,500,000、Indirect Cost: ¥450,000)
Fiscal Year 2010: ¥650,000 (Direct Cost: ¥500,000、Indirect Cost: ¥150,000)
Fiscal Year 2009: ¥650,000 (Direct Cost: ¥500,000、Indirect Cost: ¥150,000)
Fiscal Year 2008: ¥650,000 (Direct Cost: ¥500,000、Indirect Cost: ¥150,000)
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| Keywords | 構文理論 / 人称代名詞 / 非指示化 / 非現実ムード / 意志性 / 命令 / 1人称代名詞 / "〓" / 受益 / 拡張 / 再述代名詞 / 言語学 / 非指示的 / 上海語 / 粤語 |
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| Research Abstract |
Third person pronouns in Modern Chinese have non-referential functions in certain constructions like extended double object and causative constructions. One crucial characteristic of these third person pronouns is their restriction to such sentence types as imperatives and conditionals, generally characterized as having irrealis force. The present study examines the mechanism in which third person pronouns lose their ability to refer within the framework of Construction Grammar (cf., Croft 2001, Fillmore 1985, Goldberg 1995), which posits constructions, i.e., form-meaning pairings, as basic linguistic units, and argues that there are interesting correlations between the loss of referentiality of third person pronouns and the constraint on mood (i.e., irrealis) observed in sentences they occur in. Further, it is claimed that the loss of referentiality and the mood constraint are an outcome of constructional extension motivated by the meaning of giving or transfer inherent in the double object and causative constructions.
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