A Research on the Minimalist Performative Hypothesis in the Theory of Linguistic Interfaces

2017 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 15K02589
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: English linguistics
• Research Institution: Tohoku University
• Principal Investigator: KANEKO Yoshiaki 東北大学, 文学研究科, 教授 (80161181)
• Project Period (FY): 2015-04-01 – 2018-03-31
• Keywords: 極小主義プログラム / 遂行仮説 / インターフェース / 生成文法 / 時制解釈

Outline of Final Research Achievements

In this research, I have investigated aspects of linguistic interface phenomena to develop the Minimalist Performative Hypothesis, which posits the functional projection Performative Phrase at the top of the main clause, within the framework of the Minimalist Program. Under the Minimalist Performative Hypothesis, I have proposed the mechanism to account for the double access phenomena in finite complement clauses, the feature system of modality of infinitival complement clauses, the mechanism to restrict interpretations of simple tense forms, and so on. In addition, I have presented a theoretical consequence of interpretation processes investigated in this research on the notion of transfer, which sends syntactic objects to the two interfaces of the semantic and phonetic components.

Free Research Field

英語学