A contrastive study on the tempo-aspectual systems in the Romance languages

2017 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 15K02482
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Linguistics
• Research Institution: Kyushu University
• Principal Investigator: Yamamura Hiromi 九州大学, 言語文化研究院, 教授 (90281188)
• Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha): 渡邊 淳也 筑波大学, 人文社会系, 准教授 (20349210) ; GIBO LUCILA 上智大学, 外国語学部, 助教 (30737218) ; 鈴木 信五 東京音楽大学, 音楽学部, 教授 (40338835) ; 藤田 健 北海道大学, 文学研究科, 教授 (50292074) ; 黒沢 直俊 東京外国語大学, 外国語学部, 教授 (80195586) ; 岸 彩子 埼玉女子短期大学, その他部局等, 非常勤講師 (80749531)
• Co-Investigator(Renkei-kenkyūsha): OGUMA Kazuro 西南学院大学, 文学部, 教授 (70169259) ; OMORI Hiroko 明治学院大学, 教養教育センター, 教授 (60233277)
• Project Period (FY): 2015-04-01 – 2018-03-31
• Keywords: ロマンス諸語 / テンス・アスペクト / 対照研究 / パラレルコーパス

Outline of Final Research Achievements

This research is a contrastive study on the tempo-aspectual systems in the six Romance languages; French, Italian, Spanish, European Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese and Romanian. First, we made a parallel corpus composed of the translations of the six languages of the novel Thirteen Problems written by Agatha Christie. Then, based on the parallel corpus, (1) we made a detailed description and a contrastive analysis of the "past perfect (pluperfect)" in the said languages, which demonstrates concretely the differences and similarities of the tempo-aspectual systems in the said languages which had never been pointed out in the literature, and (2) we reconsidered tempo-aspectual phenomena proper to each language.

Free Research Field

言語学