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The semantics and syntax of modal indefinites in Japanese

Research Project

Project/Area Number 26370450
Research Category

Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)

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

Principal Investigator

Kaneko Makoto  岡山大学, 社会文化科学研究科, 准教授 (00362947)

Project Period (FY) 2014-04-01 – 2017-03-31
Project Status Completed (Fiscal Year 2016)
Budget Amount *help
¥2,730,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,100,000、Indirect Cost: ¥630,000)
Fiscal Year 2016: ¥910,000 (Direct Cost: ¥700,000、Indirect Cost: ¥210,000)
Fiscal Year 2015: ¥910,000 (Direct Cost: ¥700,000、Indirect Cost: ¥210,000)
Fiscal Year 2014: ¥910,000 (Direct Cost: ¥700,000、Indirect Cost: ¥210,000)
Keywordsmodal indefinites / modal variation / appositive / parenthetical question / implicature / positive polarity / contrastive topic / davidsonian ‘utterance’ / epistemic indefinites / Inquisitive Semantics / Andrews Amalgam / appositives / 会話の含意 / 慣習的含意 / implicatures / contrastive topics / rescuing effects / paraphrase of quotes / bare coordination / non-uniform plurality / rescuing effect / domain alternatives / disjunction / coordinated whole
Outline of Final Research Achievements

This study advances the following two hypotheses about modal indefinites, like Japanese "WH-ka". 1)Although most of previous analyses have proposed some unifying analysis to them, modal indefinites in various languages should be classified among three types: Type A which requires that the alternative set provided by the NP includes at least two members having different values in different worlds; Type B which boils down to a set of alternative entities, to which the following NP is semantically adjoined; Type C which is a sluiced parenthetical interrogative clause. 2)The positive polarity properties of "WH-ka" stem from factors not necessarily coming from its lexical semantics: morpho-syntactic properties of negative -nai; pragmatically motivated scope-inversing effects of the contrastive topic ("??I didn’t see SOMEON" vs "I didn’t see ALL"; semantic properties of some complements (ex. complements of speech act verbs) which are specified to denote an utterance in davidsonian terms.

Report

(4 results)
  • 2016 Annual Research Report   Final Research Report ( PDF )
  • 2015 Research-status Report
  • 2014 Research-status Report
  • Research Products

    (19 results)

All 2017 2016 2015 2014 Other

All Journal Article (4 results) (of which Peer Reviewed: 3 results,  Open Access: 3 results,  Acknowledgement Compliant: 1 results) Presentation (12 results) (of which Int'l Joint Research: 4 results,  Invited: 1 results) Book (1 results) Remarks (2 results)

  • [Journal Article] Distribution sur les membres interdependants - une analyse de la coordination nue en francais2016

    • Author(s)
      Makoto Kaneko
    • Journal Title

      F. Neveu, G. Bergounioux, M.-H. Cote;, J.-M. Fournier, L. Hriba & S. Prevost (eds.) Actes du 5eme Congres Mondial de Linguistique Francaise

      Volume: 5 Pages: 18-18

    • DOI

      10.1051/shsconf/20162712010

    • Related Report
      2016 Annual Research Report
    • Peer Reviewed / Open Access
  • [Journal Article] Une analyse de la coordination des noms nus en francais en termes de TOUT COORDONNE2016

    • Author(s)
      Makoto Kaneko
    • Journal Title

      Gautier, E. Havu, Eva & D. Van Raemdonck (dir.). DeterminationS. Bruxelles : Peter Lang

      Volume: 30 Pages: 69-83

    • Related Report
      2015 Research-status Report
    • Peer Reviewed
  • [Journal Article] Distribution sur les membres interdépendants – une analyse de la coordination nue en français2016

    • Author(s)
      Makoto Kaneko
    • Journal Title

      Actes du Congrès Mondial de Linguistique Française (CMLF 2016)、SHS Web of Conferences

      Volume: 5 Pages: 00-00

    • Related Report
      2015 Research-status Report
    • Peer Reviewed / Open Access / Acknowledgement Compliant
  • [Journal Article] La coordination nue en français revisitée2014

    • Author(s)
      Makoto Kaneko
    • Journal Title

      岡山大学文学部プロジェクト研究報告書「言語とコミュニケーション」

      Volume: 22 Pages: 15-38

    • Related Report
      2014 Research-status Report
    • Open Access
  • [Presentation] Les determinants et l’uniformite des referents2017

    • Author(s)
      Makoto Kaneko
    • Organizer
      Representations du sens linguistique VII、ポスター発表
    • Place of Presentation
      Universite de Sherbrooke
    • Year and Date
      2017-10-25
    • Related Report
      2016 Annual Research Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] Determiners and Classifiers2017

    • Author(s)
      Makoto Kaneko
    • Organizer
      29th European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information (ESSLLI 2017)、Workshop on Quantifiers and Determiners、口頭発表
    • Place of Presentation
      トゥルーズ大学
    • Year and Date
      2017-07-17
    • Related Report
      2016 Annual Research Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] 3つのタイプの認識的不定表現2017

    • Author(s)
      金子真
    • Organizer
      日本言語学会第154回大会ポスター発表
    • Place of Presentation
      首都大学東京
    • Year and Date
      2017-06-24
    • Related Report
      2016 Annual Research Report
  • [Presentation] 三つのタイプの認識的不定表現2017

    • Author(s)
      金子真
    • Organizer
      第71回北大阪言語フォーラム(Forum for Linguistics Kita-Osaka)
    • Place of Presentation
      箕面市中央生涯学習センター第1会議室
    • Related Report
      2016 Annual Research Report
  • [Presentation] Different syntax and common semantics of referentially vague indefinites2016

    • Author(s)
      Makoto Kaneko
    • Organizer
      Rencontres d’Automne de Linguistique formelle (RALFe 2016)
    • Place of Presentation
      CNRS/パリ第8大学
    • Year and Date
      2016-11-03
    • Related Report
      2016 Annual Research Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] Distribution sur les membres interdependants - une analyse de la coordination nue en francais2016

    • Author(s)
      Makoto Kaneko
    • Organizer
      5eme Congres mondial de la linguistique francaise
    • Place of Presentation
      トゥール大学
    • Year and Date
      2016-07-04
    • Related Report
      2016 Annual Research Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] Distributivity over epistemically dependent members - an analysis of bare coordination in French2016

    • Author(s)
      Makoto Kaneko
    • Organizer
      Workshop Co-Distributivity 2016
    • Place of Presentation
      CNRS/パリ第8大学
    • Year and Date
      2016-02-11
    • Related Report
      2015 Research-status Report
  • [Presentation] Diversity of the source of positive polarity - with special reference to Japanese WA-KA2015

    • Author(s)
      Makoto Kaneko
    • Organizer
      DGfS Workshop Varieties of Positive Polarity Items
    • Place of Presentation
      ライプチヒ大学
    • Year and Date
      2015-03-04 – 2015-03-06
    • Related Report
      2014 Research-status Report
  • [Presentation] ダレカ・ナニカ、AカBと肯定極性2015

    • Author(s)
      金子真
    • Organizer
      第50回北大阪言語フォーラム
    • Place of Presentation
      みのお市民活動センター
    • Year and Date
      2015-01-11
    • Related Report
      2014 Research-status Report
    • Invited
  • [Presentation] Une analyse de la coordination des noms nus en français en termes du ‘tout coordonnée’2014

    • Author(s)
      Makoto Kaneko
    • Organizer
      Workshop Le Nom Sans Déterminant
    • Place of Presentation
      ピカルディー ジュール・ヴェルヌ大学
    • Year and Date
      2014-10-02 – 2014-10-03
    • Related Report
      2014 Research-status Report
  • [Presentation] Une analyse de la coordination des noms nus en termes du ‘tout coordonnée’2014

    • Author(s)
      Makoto Kaneko
    • Organizer
      Workshop DéterminationS
    • Place of Presentation
      ヘルシンキ大学
    • Year and Date
      2014-08-28 – 2014-08-30
    • Related Report
      2014 Research-status Report
  • [Presentation] 等位接続名詞+タチについての一分析―coordinated wholeを表すものとして2014

    • Author(s)
      金子真
    • Organizer
      国際会議『コンテクストに基づいた日本語の話し言葉』
    • Place of Presentation
      ボルドーモンテーニュ大学
    • Year and Date
      2014-04-04 – 2014-04-05
    • Related Report
      2014 Research-status Report
  • [Book] DeterminationS (Series: GRAMM-R. Studies of French Linguistics vol. 30) の中の1章。論文タイトル Une analyse de la coordination des noms nus en francais en termes de TOUT COORDONNE2016

    • Author(s)
      E. Gautier, E. Havu & D. Van Raemdonck (dir.)
    • Total Pages
      15
    • Publisher
      Bruxelles: Peter Lang
    • Related Report
      2016 Annual Research Report
  • [Remarks] 岡山大学研究者総覧

    • URL

      http://soran.cc.okayama-u.ac.jp/view?l=ja&u=64944e818061979974506e4da22f6611

    • Related Report
      2016 Annual Research Report
  • [Remarks]

    • URL

      http://soran.cc.okayama-u.ac.jp/view?l=ja&u=64944e818061979974506e4da22f6611

    • Related Report
      2015 Research-status Report

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Published: 2014-04-04   Modified: 2018-03-22  

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