2022 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
An empirical and theoretical study of present and past participles in English
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20K13066
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Early-Career Scientists
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| Allocation Type | Multi-year Fund |
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| Review Section |
Basic Section 02080:English linguistics-related
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| Research Institution | Aichi Gakuin University |
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Principal Investigator |
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| Project Period (FY) |
2020-04-01 – 2023-03-31
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| Keywords | 心理動詞 / 主題役割 / 項 / 現在分詞 / 動詞移動 / 非定形節 / 縮約関係節 / 分詞構文 |
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| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
I published two papers as the results of research on noun phrases that are pre-modified by the present participle of English psychological verbs. The titles of the papers are “The Occurrence of the Noun Pre-modifying Structure of pleasing in the History of English” and “A Corpus Investigation on Semantic Change of Worry in the History of English.” I presented one paper as the result of research on noun phrases post-modified by the present and past participles in English. The title of the paper is “The Historical Development of Verb Movement in Non-finite Ving Constructions: Focusing on the Word Order of Non-finite Ving and Adverbs.” I also submitted a paper titled "On the Reduction of Clause Structure in Reduced Relative Clauses Showing OV Word Order in Old English" to the 41st Annual Meeting of the English Linguistic Society of Japan, which is currently under review.
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| Free Research Field |
英語学、歴史的統語論
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| Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements |
英語の心理動詞の現在分詞が前位修飾する名詞句の研究では、pleaseとworryが項に付与する主題役割と、英語史における動詞の出現時期に着目し、当該の構造がいつ、なぜ出現したかを示した。本研究は先行研究でほとんど扱われていないため、本研究結果は今後の当該分野の研究の基礎となる。英語の現在分詞・過去分詞が後位修飾する名詞句の研究では、縮約関係節を分詞構文、前置詞補部Ving構文も含めた非定形Ving構文の枠で捉え直した。そして非定形節における動詞移動の観点から分析した。この観点からの分析は先行研究にはないことから、本研究結果もまた、当該分野の今後の研究の基礎となる。
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