A Syntactic Analysis on Meaning Change in Elliptical Constructions in Japanese and English
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- Maeda Masako
- Principal Investigator
- 九州大学
About this project
- Japan Grant Number
- JP18K12412
- Funding Program
- Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research
- Funding organization
- Japan Society for the Promotion of Science
- Project/Area Number
- 18K12412
- Research Category
- Grant-in-Aid for Early-Career Scientists
- Allocation Type
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- Multi-year Fund
- Review Section / Research Field
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- Basic Section 02080:English linguistics-related
- Research Institution
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- Kyushu University
- Seinan Gakuin University
- Kyushu Institute of Technology
- Project Period (FY)
- 2018-04-01 〜 2023-03-31
- Project Status
- Completed
- Budget Amount*help
- 3,900,000 Yen (Direct Cost: 3,000,000 Yen Indirect Cost: 900,000 Yen)
Research Abstract
The aims of this project are (i) to clarify that ellipsis changes the meaning of a sentence, and (ii) to research on the underlying phonological, semantic, and/or syntactic mechanisms of such meaning change under ellipsis. For the first purpose, I examined various elliptical constructions in Japanese and English, including Argument Ellipsis, Verb-Echo Answers, and Particle-Stranding Ellipsis, and clarified that scopes of quantifiers and negation may be different in the elliptical sentences. I attribute the scope change to syntactic movement mechanisms such as head movement and quantifier raising, thereby suggesting that phonological deletion analysis might be a more suitable analysis for ellipsis.