| Budget Amount *help |
¥1,950,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,500,000、Indirect Cost: ¥450,000)
Fiscal Year 2014: ¥650,000 (Direct Cost: ¥500,000、Indirect Cost: ¥150,000)
Fiscal Year 2013: ¥650,000 (Direct Cost: ¥500,000、Indirect Cost: ¥150,000)
Fiscal Year 2012: ¥650,000 (Direct Cost: ¥500,000、Indirect Cost: ¥150,000)
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| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
Japanese V-V compounds have so far received dual analyses: one approach, mainly advocated in traditional Japanese linguistics, claims that the second element of a V-V compound, if grammaticalized, is an affix or an auxiliary verb, while the other one, mainly advocated in generative linguistics, claims that it is always a main verb. With this background, we have provided several generative-linguistic arguments showing that such a lexeme is a functional category located somewhere in the universal functional hierarchy.
The research leader also established a research unit named "Language Change and Language Variation Research Unit" in 2013 as a forum for the collaboration between theoretical linguists and corpus linguists. And in its activities, we have elucidated a syntactic mechanism of how diachronic grammaticalization and/or constructionalization proceed from adjective to preposition, from adverb to aspectual functional categories, from N-N compounds to noun phrases, and so on.
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