2009 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
Mismatch Phenomena in Meaning, Form, and Phonology in Japanese and English
| Project/Area Number |
19720112
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Research Field |
English linguistics
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| Research Institution | Osaka University |
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Principal Investigator |
IWASAKI Shinya Osaka University, 文学研究科, 招聘研究員 (90379214)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2007 – 2009
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| Keywords | 同族目的語構文 / 認知文法 / 構文文法 / 時間メタファー |
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| Research Abstract |
The present study considers the question of what kind of verbs can take cognate objects (COs) and what kind of verbs cannot, from the perspective of Cognitive Grammar. The present paper investigates the syntactic properties of COs, such as the ability to take modifiers, the passivizability of cognate object constructions (COCs), and the it-pronominalization of COs. It is our contention that a detailed classification of verbs that occur in COCs is required in order to capture the relation between the syntactic properties and the modification of COs. While classifying verbs, we focus on three conceptual factors : the force of energy of the subject, a change of state of the subject, and the objectivity of the cognate noun. The study reveals that these three parameters enable us to capture the difference in the interpretation of COs in relation to modification and syntactic tests.
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