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A Synchronic and Diachronic Study on the Syntactic Structure, Semantics and Pragmatics of English Possessive Forms

英语所有格句法结构、语义和语用的共时和历时研究

基本信息

批准号：
17520323
负责人：
AMANO Masachiyo
金额：
$ 1.95万
依托单位：
Nagoya University
依托单位国家：
日本
项目类别：
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
财政年份：
2005
资助国家：
日本
起止时间：
2005 至 2007
项目状态：
已结题

项目摘要

Although the DP analysis of genitive farms proposed by Abney (1987) seems to be basically correct, the present study has shown that there are many genitive forms in English that are not analyzable by it, and the compound analysis proposed by Taylor (1996) should be adopted for them. It was also shown that historically the compound genitives have been steadily increasing since the 16th century. The surveys I have conducted for the past three years in the United States, Canada, Australia, and the Great Britain revealed that they are increasing at the very present time. Therefore, they are important linguistic forms we can never ignore in any study of the genitive forms.This study found an interesting correlation between the compound analysis and the animacy condition. It is clear that the animacy condition is disappearing from English, especially from, journalism English. A new finding through this study is that it is disappearing from the compound genitives and it is alive in the genitive forms that are compatible with the DP analysis. Since the animacy condition is pragmatic in nature, it will be relevant to notice that the pragmatic condition is sensitive to the syntactic structure of the genitive forms, though this point has not yet fully evidenced. But this does not mean that the category Det is becoming unstable in present-day English. The surveys mentioned above demonstrate that predeterminers, such as all, both and halt; are shifting to the category of determiner. This shifting will be allowed only if Det is well established. Thus we can say that Det is well established in present-day English.To further motivate the claims made in this study, I will continue gathering data and pursue their consequences for the theory of language change

虽然Abney(1987)对所有格农场的DP分析似乎是基本正确的，但本研究表明英语中有许多属格形式是不能用它来分析的，应该采用Taylor(1996)提出的复合分析方法。研究还表明，从历史上看，自16世纪以来，复合天才一直在稳步增加。我过去三年在美国、加拿大、澳大利亚和英国进行的调查显示，目前这一数字正在增加。因此，在任何所有格形式的研究中，它们都是不可忽视的重要语言形式。本研究发现复合词分析与有生命条件之间存在着有趣的相关性。很明显，生机勃勃的状态正在从英语中消失，尤其是在新闻英语中。通过这项研究的一个新发现是，它正在从复合属格中消失，它以与DP分析兼容的所有格形式存在。由于有生性条件本质上是语用的，因此值得注意的是，语用条件对所有格形式的句法结构很敏感，尽管这一点还没有得到充分的证明。但这并不意味着类别Det在当今英语中变得不稳定了。上述调查表明，预定词，如ALL、BUTH和HALT；正在转向限定词类别。只有在DET建立良好的基础上，这种转变才会被允许。因此，我们可以说，DET在当今英语中是根深蒂固的。为了进一步激励本研究中提出的主张，我将继续收集数据，并探讨它们对语言变化理论的影响