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A Study on Semantic Functions of Fucus Marking Constructions

Research Project

Project/Area Number 24520433
Research Category

Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)

Allocation TypeMulti-year Fund
Section一般
Research Field Linguistics
Research InstitutionSaga University

Principal Investigator

KUMAMOTO Chiaki  佐賀大学, 文化教育学部, 教授 (10153355)

Project Period (FY) 2012-04-01 – 2015-03-31
Project Status Completed (Fiscal Year 2014)
Budget Amount *help
¥2,470,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,900,000、Indirect Cost: ¥570,000)
Fiscal Year 2014: ¥780,000 (Direct Cost: ¥600,000、Indirect Cost: ¥180,000)
Fiscal Year 2013: ¥780,000 (Direct Cost: ¥600,000、Indirect Cost: ¥180,000)
Fiscal Year 2012: ¥910,000 (Direct Cost: ¥700,000、Indirect Cost: ¥210,000)
Keywords焦点 / 情報構造 / 分裂文 / 倒置構文 / 指定文 / 措定文 / 変項名詞句 / 代名詞 / 倒置指定文 / 措定文の倒置形 / 同一性文 / 叙述名詞句 / 提示文 / 同定文
Outline of Final Research Achievements

Within the field of focus marking constructions, I have paid special attention to cleft sentences, specificational sentences and inversion in English and Japanese, and investigated their semantic and pragmatic functions. Not only information structure but also semantic functions of different types of NPs (cf. Nishiyama 2003) need to be accounted for to clarify the concept of focus. Specifically, I have shown: (1) the essential function of specification is the assignment of a value to a variable, which cannot be reduced to the function of predication or of equation; (2) the focus of specificational sentences is defined in terms of the contrast between the selected and non-selected values while that of inversion is defined in terms of the relative discourse familiarity of the elements in the sentence; (3) the it-cleft and the that-cleft perform different semantic functions; the former assigns a value while the latter confirms the identity of the value which has already been assigned.

Report

(4 results)
  • 2014 Annual Research Report   Final Research Report ( PDF )
  • 2013 Research-status Report
  • 2012 Research-status Report
  • Research Products

    (7 results)

All 2015 2014 2013 Other

All Journal Article (2 results) Presentation (4 results) Book (1 results)

  • [Journal Article] 不定名詞句を主語とする倒置指定文について2015

    • Author(s)
      熊本千明
    • Journal Title

      佐賀大学全学教育機構紀要

      Volume: 3 Pages: 15-29

    • NAID

      110009889778

    • Related Report
      2014 Annual Research Report
  • [Journal Article] 指定文・措定文・同一性文2014

    • Author(s)
      熊本千明
    • Journal Title

      佐賀大学全学教育機構紀要

      Volume: 2 Pages: 1-13

    • NAID

      110009795769

    • Related Report
      2013 Research-status Report
  • [Presentation] Patten, Amanda L. (2012) The English It-Cleft: A Constructional Account and a Diachronic Investigation, Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton の論考について2014

    • Author(s)
      熊本千明
    • Organizer
      第59回慶應意味論・語用論研究会
    • Place of Presentation
      慶應義塾大学
    • Year and Date
      2014-11-01
    • Related Report
      2014 Annual Research Report
  • [Presentation] Referentiality in noun phrases and relative pronouns2014

    • Author(s)
      Chiaki Kumamoto
    • Organizer
      Sixth Brno Conference on Linguistic Studies in English 2014
    • Place of Presentation
      Masaryk University
    • Year and Date
      2014-09-12
    • Related Report
      2014 Annual Research Report
  • [Presentation] Refefentiality of the Pronouns it and that in Copular Sentences

    • Author(s)
      Chiaki Kumamoto
    • Organizer
      Fifth Brno Conference on Linguistic Studies in English 2012
    • Place of Presentation
      Masaryk University
    • Related Report
      2012 Research-status Report
  • [Presentation] 分裂文の主語代名詞の指示性

    • Author(s)
      熊本千明
    • Organizer
      第41回慶應意味論・語用論研究会
    • Place of Presentation
      慶應義塾大学
    • Related Report
      2012 Research-status Report
  • [Book] 名詞句の世界―その意味と解釈の神秘に迫る2013

    • Author(s)
      西山佑司、梶浦恭平、熊本千明、小屋逸樹、西川賢哉、峯島宏次、山泉実
    • Total Pages
      450
    • Publisher
      ひつじ書房
    • Related Report
      2012 Research-status Report

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