2010 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
On the Historical Development of the Resultative Construction ; Using the Parsed Diachronic Corpora
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20520454
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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 | Toyota National College of Technology |
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Principal Investigator |
KAMIYA Masaaki Toyota National College of Technology, 一般学科, 教授 (40194980)
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| Co-Investigator(Renkei-kenkyūsha) |
TAKAHASHI Kaoru 豊田工業高等専門学校, 一般学科, 教授 (90216705)
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| Research Collaborator |
TSUZUKI Masako 中京大学, 国際教養学部, 教授 (00227448)
SATO Toshiya 獨協医科大学, 医学部, 講師 (80364537)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2008 – 2010
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| Keywords | 結果構文 / 小節 / PPCME2 / 古英語 / 中英語 / 文法標識 / KWIC |
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| Research Abstract |
The aim of this research is to select the possible resultative constructions in Old English and Middle English, using the two parsed diachronic corpora ; YCOE (Old English) and PPCME2 (Middle English). The KWIC Concordance Program for Windows was used to make a concordance of the small clauses beginning with the tag [IP-SMC]. About 6,400 small clauses were found in the two parsed corpora. Then we checked whether the resultative construction exists from among the small clauses.
As the result of the research, one example was found in the YCOE corpus and 31 examples were found in the PPCME2 corpus. We add the new findings to the previous study conducted by Visser (1967) ; the eleven verbs (bake, well (meaning boil), to-breken (meaning break up), pierce, put (meaning push), stamp, cut ,shut, colour, hew, strike) and the 8 resultative predicates (blind, fast, full, hard, hot, short, stark (meaning strong), white).
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