An Integral Study on the Interface between Syntax and Lexicon

三名研究人员参与了这一项目，在研究期间取得了以下成果。Kishimoto首席研究员研究了谓词和论元之间的关系，论证了设置运动动词和状态变化动词等谓词类的必要性。他还对否定词的语法化进行了研究，发现日语习语中有一些尚未语法化的词汇否定残留物。Kageyama是该项目的合作研究员，他提出了一个包含百科全书知识和概念结构的质量结构体系，以解释语义结构和句法结构之间的关系。他还分析了语义结构和动结式之间的关系，指出动结式的跨语言分布可以用一个普遍的蕴涵层次来解释。另一位合作研究者Yumoto研究了复合动词的格标记和theta角色分配的分布。此外，她还结合一些已有的名词、形容词和动词的语义结构，考察了论元实现在动词和形容词构词中的机制和作用。

Three investigator participate in this project, and the following results are obtained during the research period. Kishimoto, the head investigator, researches the relation between predicates and arguments, demonstrating the need for setting several predicative classes such as verbs of movement and verbs of change of state. He also conducted a research on the grammaticalization of negative word nai, and found that among idiomatic expressions Japanese has some remnant of lexical negation, which has not been grammaticalized yet. Kageyama, a co-investigator of this project, has proposed a system of qualia structures which incorporate encyclopedic knowledge as well as conceptual structures, in order to explain the relation between semantic and syntactic structures. He also analyzes the relation between semantic structures and resultative constructions, showing that the cross-linguistic distribution of resultative constructions can be explained in terms of a universal implicational hierarchy. Yumoto, another co-investigator, researches the distribution of the case marking and theta role assignment of compound verbs. In addition, she investigated the mechanism and the role of argument realization on the word formation of verbs and adjectives making crucial reference to some existing semantic structures of nouns, adjectives and verbs.