2010 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
A Comparative Study of Tenses in Japanese, English and Other West-European Languages
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19520414
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Research Field |
English linguistics
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| Research Institution | University of Tsukuba |
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Principal Investigator |
WADA Naoaki University of Tsukuba, 大学院・人文社会科学研究科, 准教授 (40282264)
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| Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) |
WATANABE Junya 筑波大学, 大学院・人文社会科学研究科, 准教授 (20349210)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2007 – 2010
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| Keywords | 時制 / 比較研究 / 証拠性 / モダリティ |
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| Research Abstract |
This study pointed out and investigated differences and similarities in tense phenomena between Japanese and some major West-European languages including English. In particular, (1) by taking constructively factors related with tense such as auxiliaries, aspect, modality and evidentiality as well as the speaker's subjectivity, we developed a tense theory which provides a basis for a unified account of tense phenomena of these languages, and (2) we showed how tense phenomena of these languages behave differently and similarly in several linguistic environments affected strongly by subjective factors.
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