2012 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
On formal representations of (in)definiteness in Japanese and English
| Project/Area Number |
22520407
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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 | Meikai University |
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Principal Investigator |
NAKAI Nobumi 明海大学, ホスピタリティ・ツーリズム学部, 准教授 (30406384)
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| Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) |
NISHIYAMA Yuji 明海大学, 外国語学部, 教授 (90051747)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2010 – 2012
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| Keywords | 意味論 / 限定詞 |
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| Research Abstract |
This study shows that Japanese noun phrases could have formal features of ‘indefiniteness-oriented’ and ‘definiteness-oriented’ structures, even though the way the language orients the concept to its own NP structure differs from the way Englishdoes.
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Research Products
(11 results)
