Syntactic Representation of Verbal Aspect : A Study based on English, the Tokyo Dialect and the Northern Kyushu Dialect

在Vendler-Dowty动词分类的基础上，对东京方言、北九州方言、英语和韩语的进行体和完成体的形式进行了比较。因此，北九州方言在这些方面有两种截然不同的形式，在解释上与英语相似。特别是，成就动词加上“进行语素”的近期解释在东京方言中不存在，但在北九州方言和英语中存在。这正是因为这些语言有进行式和完成式两种截然不同的形式，而东京方言只有一种形式--te i-ru。采用Ritter和Rosen的句法表征机制，提出了从句法角度对这些体素进行许可的机制，并对Kindaichi(1976)意义上的进行体和完成体的特殊存在进行了详细的分析，认为通过对这些动词设定一个与事件名词相关的事件位置和事件转移机制，我们可以解释这些事实。此外，韩国语的进行体、完成体或证据体的表达取决于它所依附的动词的类别。通过对这些语言与日本东北方言的进一步比较，可以清楚地看出，时态、体态和情态在有无特定形式的情况下存在着分工。具体来说，韩语和东北方言有一个共同的特点，那就是过去时的双重化，这表现出间接的证据。这些研究成果分别在韩国语言学会国际会议、日本英语语言学会第22届年会以及第11届和第12届哈佛大学韩语语言学国际研讨会上发表。

Based on Vendler-Dowty verbal classification, I made comparison among the forms of progressive and perfect aspects of the Tokyo dialect, the Northern Kyushu dialect, English and Korean. As a result, the Northern Kyushu dialect, which has two distinct forms for these aspects, behaves similarly with English in interpretation. In particular, a near-future interpretation of achievement verb plus "progressive morpheme, is absent in the Tokyo dialect but existent in the Northern Kyushu dialect and English. This is precisely due to the fact that while these languages have two distinct forms for progressive and perfect, the Tokyo dialect has only one form -te i-ru. Adopting Ritter and Rosen's mechanism of syntactic representation, I proposed a mechanism for licensing such aspects in terms of syntaxI made a detailed analysis on the peculiar existence of progressives and perfects of so-called "stateverbs" in the sense of Kindaichi (1976), and argued that by positing an event position associated with some "event nominals" and a mechanism of "event transfer" to these verbs, we can explain these facts.In addition, Korean ess expresses past tense, perfect aspect, or evidentiality aspect, depending on the class of verb it attaches to. Through further comparison between these languages and the Tohoku dialect of Japanese, it has become clear that there is a division of labor between tense, aspect and modality in relation with existence/absence of particular forms. Specifically, Korean and the Tohoku dialect share a common characteristics of doubling of past tense, which shows indirect evidentiality.These results were presented at the International Conference of the Linguistic Society of Korea, the 22nd Annual Conference of the English Linguistic Society of Japan, and the 11th and 12th Harvard International Symposium on Korean Linguistics.