2013 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
Lexical and construcional perspectives for semantic change
| Project/Area Number |
23720217
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)
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| Allocation Type | Multi-year Fund |
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| Research Field |
Linguistics
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| Research Institution | Fukui Prefectural University |
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Principal Investigator |
MORI Hideki 福井県立大学, 学術教養センター, 講師 (20534671)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2011 – 2013
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| Keywords | 意味変化 / 文法化 / 命令文 / 条件命令文 / 副動詞構文 |
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| Research Abstract |
The main claims of this research are that lexical and constructional perspectives are essential for the study of semantic change and that the same expression can be regarded as an example of grammaticalization or lexicalization, depending on its perspective for analysis. With these dual perspectives in mind, I have attempted several synchronic and diachronic analyses of imperative expressions from Japanese and some other languages, including English. These surveys were publicized in forms of presentations at conferences and through journal articles. The findings of this research can make theoretical contributions to related research fields, such as cognitive linguistics, which emphasizes the importance of constructions, and the latest grammaticalization/lexicalization theory concerning constructionalization.
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