Semantic Study for the Mapping of Events to Temporal Structure and the Setting of Reference Time in Per Aspect

本研究探讨了日语现在完成体的语义特征。我们探讨了事件性结构到时间组织的映射方式，以及完成句中参照时间的构建。为此，我们考察了日语现在完成时的“-te-i-ru”形式。基于这些数据，我们认为，完成体一般表示描述性事件和背景信息之间的关系，前者是评估。然后，我们还表明，这是不够的假设，一个简单的语用约束，如克莱因（1992年）或形态句法分析，如Giorgi和Pianesi（1997年）提出的解释，这一现象可以完全解释的情况下，理论方法的视角相关性的自然语言。我们研究的重点是体貌词缀“-特-如”和时间状语的性质及其出现环境之间的相互作用。

This study deals with the semantic characteristics of the Japanese present perfect including '-te-i-ru" morpheme as an aspectual marker. We investigate the way of mapping the eventuality structure to the temporal organization and how construct the reference time in perfective sentences. To do so, we examine the data from Japanese present perfect in ‘-te-i-ru' form. Based upon this data, we argue that the perfective aspect generally expresses the relation between descriptive event and background information in which the former is evaluated. Then, we show also that it is not sufficient to postulate that the phenomenon is explained by a simple pragmatic constraint, as proposed by Klein (1992) or a morphosyntactic analysis, as proposed by Giorgi & Pianesi (1997), and that the phenomenon can be fully accounted for in terms of situation theoretical approach based on the perspectival relativity of natural language. The keys of our investigation are the interaction between the properties of aspectual affix ‘-te-i-ru' and of temporal adverbials and its appearing circumstances.