2011 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
A Study of Classifier Constructions in Japanese Sign Language Based on Corpus Data
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20520405
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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 |
Linguistics
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| Research Institution | Kobe City College of Technology |
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Principal Investigator |
IMAZATO Noriko 神戸市立工業高等専門学校, 一般科, 准教授 (90259903)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2008 – 2011
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| Keywords | 日本手話 / 類辞 / 連続動詞構文 / 文法化 / 使役移動 / 虚構移動 |
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| Research Abstract |
Motion expressions in Japanese Sign Language(JSL) typically include verbs with what we call"classifiers(CL)". In typical motion expressions, a predicate usually forms a serial verb construction(SVC), consisting of 3 verbs at most ; one manner verb, and two motion verbs with CLs. Our analysis of JSL data shows that the last motion verb in this construction can loose its CL, be grammaticalized, and become a grammatical marker when it co-occurs with a manner verb which is semantically less"congruous"with the motion event(an action verb, for example). It is this SVC that systematically produces grammatical functional words in JSL.
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