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A Study on the Impact of Information Structure on the Diachronic Shift of Subject Positions in English: From a Discourse Configurational Language to a Proposition Configurational Language

Research Project

Project/Area Number 26370568
Research Category

Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)

Allocation TypeMulti-year Fund
Section一般
Research Field English linguistics
Research InstitutionShimane University

Principal Investigator

NAWATA Hiroyuki  島根大学, 教育学部, 教授 (00325036)

Project Period (FY) 2014-04-01 – 2018-03-31
Project Status Completed (Fiscal Year 2017)
Budget Amount *help
¥3,250,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,500,000、Indirect Cost: ¥750,000)
Fiscal Year 2016: ¥910,000 (Direct Cost: ¥700,000、Indirect Cost: ¥210,000)
Fiscal Year 2015: ¥1,040,000 (Direct Cost: ¥800,000、Indirect Cost: ¥240,000)
Fiscal Year 2014: ¥1,300,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,000,000、Indirect Cost: ¥300,000)
Keywords生成統語論 / 言語変化 / 英語史 / パラメター / 素性継承 / 主語位置 / 動詞移動 / 補文標識 / 生成文法 / 統語論 / 情報構造
Outline of Final Research Achievements

This study has aimed to investigate how syntactic positions for subjects have changed in the history of English and provide an explanation of the mechanism that drives the change, in view of the "Feature Inheritance Parameter Hypothesis" proposed under the generative syntax. We have revealed the following: (i) From Old English to Early Middle English, two syntactic positions were available for subjects in accordance with their information value; (ii) however, these two positions underwent an downward shift in the syntactic structure, so that they came to serve as free variants in Late Middle English through Early Modern English; (iii) finally, the subject positions were unified in Late Modern English. The validity of our analysis has also been tested against other diachronic changes and cross-linguistic variations.

Report

(5 results)
  • 2017 Annual Research Report   Final Research Report ( PDF )
  • 2016 Research-status Report
  • 2015 Research-status Report
  • 2014 Research-status Report

Research Products

(9 results)

All 2017 2016 2015 2014

All Journal Article (2 results) (of which Open Access: 2 results,  Peer Reviewed: 1 results,  Acknowledgement Compliant: 1 results) Presentation (5 results) (of which Int'l Joint Research: 1 results,  Invited: 2 results) Book (2 results)

  • [Journal Article] 後期近代英語における残留動詞移動とknow類動詞の文法化2017

    • Author(s)
      縄田裕幸
    • Journal Title

      島根大学教育学部紀要

      Volume: 51 Pages: 69-79

    • NAID

      120006406799

    • Related Report
      2017 Annual Research Report
    • Open Access
  • [Journal Article] On the Quotative Complementizer -Tte in Japanese2016

    • Author(s)
      Tomio HIrose and Hiroyuki Nawata
    • Journal Title

      Semantics-Syntax Interface

      Volume: 3 Pages: 1-29

    • Related Report
      2016 Research-status Report
    • Peer Reviewed / Open Access / Acknowledgement Compliant
  • [Presentation] 動詞移動は何によって駆動されるか:英語史における残留動詞移動現象からの考察2016

    • Author(s)
      縄田裕幸
    • Organizer
      言語変化・変異ユニット第3回ワークショップ
    • Place of Presentation
      東北大学
    • Year and Date
      2016-09-08
    • Related Report
      2016 Research-status Report
  • [Presentation] 談話階層言語から命題階層言語へ:英語における史的素性推移とその帰結2016

    • Author(s)
      縄田裕幸
    • Organizer
      第3回史的英語学研究会
    • Place of Presentation
      島根大学
    • Year and Date
      2016-08-18
    • Related Report
      2016 Research-status Report
    • Invited
  • [Presentation] "Complementizers" and the Right Periphery of Japanese2015

    • Author(s)
      Tomio Hirose and Hiroyuki Nawata
    • Organizer
      INternational Workshop of Syntactic Cartography 2015
    • Place of Presentation
      北京語言大学
    • Year and Date
      2015-12-06
    • Related Report
      2015 Research-status Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] 統語的変異の出現と収束2014

    • Author(s)
      縄田裕幸
    • Organizer
      日本英語学会第32回大会シンポジウム「言語変化に対する多角的アプローチ」
    • Place of Presentation
      学習院大学
    • Year and Date
      2014-11-09
    • Related Report
      2014 Research-status Report
    • Invited
  • [Presentation] 英語における主語位置の通時的変遷:下方推移分析2014

    • Author(s)
      縄田裕幸
    • Organizer
      ワークショップ「コーパスからわかる言語変化と言語理論」
    • Place of Presentation
      東北大学大学院情報科学研究
    • Year and Date
      2014-09-09
    • Related Report
      2014 Research-status Report
  • [Book] 文法変化と言語理論2016

    • Author(s)
      田中智之他(編)
    • Total Pages
      308
    • Publisher
      開拓社
    • Related Report
      2016 Research-status Report
  • [Book] コーパスから分かる言語変化・変異と言語理論2016

    • Author(s)
      小川芳樹他(編)
    • Total Pages
      453
    • Publisher
      開拓社
    • Related Report
      2016 Research-status Report

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Published: 2014-04-04   Modified: 2019-03-29  

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