2013 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
Parameters in Root Infinitives: A Study in Comparative Syntax and Acquisition
| Project/Area Number |
23520529
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
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| Allocation Type | Multi-year Fund |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Research Field |
Linguistics
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| Research Institution | Nanzan University |
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Principal Investigator |
MURASUGI Keiko (SAITO Keiko) 南山大学, 外国語学部, 教授 (00239518)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2011 – 2013
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| Keywords | 生成文法理論 / 主節不定詞現象 / 第一言語獲得 / 時制句 / 文法獲得 / 刈り取り仮説 / 原理とパラメター理論 / Stem Parameter |
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| Research Abstract |
How do the very young childrren acquire the verbal system? It has been argued that children go through the Root Infinitive (analogue) stage where tense is missing and no T- and C-related items appear in the natural production. We argue based on the longitudinal studies and corpus analysis that Japanese-speaking children, just like children learning other languages, go through the stage where tense is missing, and the stage can be well explained by the Truncation Hypothesis proposed by Rizzi (1993/1994).
We further argue that there are three types of Root Infinitive (anaoogues) in the child languages: Root Infinitives (Dutch, French, German, among others), Bare Verbs (English, Swahili, Japanese onomatopoeia among others) and Surrogate Infinitives (Japanese, Korean, Turkish, Kuwaiti Arabic, among others).The cross-linguistic analysis of the Root Infinitive (anaogues) phenomenon provides us a piece of strong evidence for the universality and the possible variations in child language.
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Research Products
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