Syntactic and Semantic Research in Tense and the Tense-related Domains.

研究结果总结如下三点：1)岩部幸三明确指出，一般现在时和进行时现在时之间的对比不适用于一般过去时和进行时过去时之间的关系。2)松谷先生从形式发展的角度分析了be+~ing结构的意义和功能。3)太田聪阐明了实现时态的动词的屈折变化是在语法的哪个层面上。4)Etsuro Shima对现在时和过去时的特殊行为进行了直接的描述5)和田直明阐明了如何从语言学的角度解释英语第三人称小说中的过去时态。2)岩部幸三研究了过去时态对一般句的可能解释，并阐明了一般句的时态解释。2)前田光秀从情态和时态的角度阐明了情感应该的语义发展过程。III)英语以外语言中的临时现象1)今井真吾对日语中的时态进行了解释和田对韩国语的体标记与论元结构之间的关系进行了研究，并根据体标记语的分布情况解释了词汇被动语气的论元结构。3)武本雅志解释了法语动名词只代表直接因果关系是由其高度的从属关系造成的。

Research results are summarized in terms of the following three points :I.Temporal phenomena in English1)Kozo Iwabe has made it clear that the contrast between the simple present and the progressive present does not apply to the relation between the simple past and the progressive past.2)Matsutani has analyzed the meaning and function of the ‘be+〜ing' construction through the consideration of the development of the form.3)Satoshi Ohta has clarified at which level of the grammar the inflectional changes in the verbs that realize the tense take place.4)Etsuro Shima has provided a straightforward account of the peculiar behavior of present and past tenses in future contexts within the framework of formal semantics.5)Naoaki Wada has clarified how to interpret past tenses in English third-person novels from a philological point of view.II.Tense and its related topics1)Kozo Iwabe has considered possible interpretations of generic sentences in the past tense and clarified the tense interpretation of generic sentences.2)Mitsuru Maeda has made clear the process of the semantic development of emotional should from a perspective based on modality and tense.III.Temporal phenomena in languages outside English1)Shingo Imai has given an account of interpretation of tense in "-toki-clause" in Japanese.2)Manabu Wada has focused on the relation between the aspect markers and argument structure in Korean, and elucidated the argument structure of lexical passive, based on the distribution of the aspect markers.3)Masashi Takemoto has explained the fact that French gerundive represents only ‘Direct causality' is caused by its high subordinativity.