2012 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
A quantitative study of grammaticalization processes using Englishcorpora
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22520485
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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 | Hokkaido University of Education |
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Principal Investigator |
FUKUDA Kaoru 北海道教育大学, 教育学部, 教授 (50261368)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2010 – 2012
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| Keywords | 文法化 / コーパス / ロジスティック回帰 |
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| Research Abstract |
Grammaticalization is a language change process where lexicalwords or phrases come to function as grammatical elements. Nodoubtin English, originally a noun phrase, has been used as adverbial as well. In this research a corpus-based statistical approach was taken in an attempt to quantify the characteristics of adverbialnodoubtand its synonyms in modern English. Assuming that frequency change is a major factor causing language change, we further examined the correlations between the frequency and function changes obtained in the case of adverbial no doubt.
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Research Products
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