Syntactic subject requirement: the demise of impersonal constructions and the rise of unaccusative constructions
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24520556
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
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| Allocation Type | Multi-year Fund |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Research Field |
English linguistics
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| Research Institution | Hosei University |
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Principal Investigator |
OSAWA Fuyo 法政大学, 文学部, 教授 (10194127)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2012-04-01 – 2015-03-31
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| Project Status |
Completed (Fiscal Year 2014)
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| 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: ¥910,000 (Direct Cost: ¥700,000、Indirect Cost: ¥210,000)
Fiscal Year 2012: ¥780,000 (Direct Cost: ¥600,000、Indirect Cost: ¥180,000)
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| Keywords | 統語的主語 / 非人称構文 / 語彙・意味優位型 / 機能範疇 / 非対格構文 / 語彙・意味優位型言語 / 義務化 / 非対格 / 非人称 |
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| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
This research has aimed to show that the notion of subject is not universal. In Old English, The presence of impersonal construction with no subject is a decisive piece of evidence. This is because Old English was a lexical-thematic language which consists of content words with no functional categories. Thematic relations between lexical items played a crucial role in determining the clause structure. In current English,'subject’is a syntactic device which was introduced late in the historical development of language to satisfy structural requirements. In Present-day English, subject has become obligatory due to fully-developed functional systems. The subject requirement is now clear due to the facts of mandatory presence of subjects, the presence of expletive subjects without semantic content.
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