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Syntactic and semantic natures of Japanese common nouns
http://hdl.handle.net/10252/4505
http://hdl.handle.net/10252/45050a1b6d1c-6960-4e3f-ae9a-97ab32ee6278
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A dissertation_1-266.pdf (10.2 MB)
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| Item type | 学位論文 / Thesis or Dissertation(1) | |||||
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| 公開日 | 2011-03-11 | |||||
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| タイトル | Syntactic and semantic natures of Japanese common nouns | |||||
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| 言語 | eng | |||||
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| 資源タイプ識別子 | http://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_46ec | |||||
| 資源タイプ | thesis | |||||
| 著者 |
Takano, Hisako
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| 学位授与機関名 | Michigan State University | |||||
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| 学位名 | Doctor of Philosophy | |||||
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| 内容記述タイプ | Other | |||||
| 内容記述 | doctoral | |||||
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| 内容記述タイプ | Other | |||||
| 内容記述 | course | |||||
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| 学位授与年月日 | 1992 | |||||
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| 出版タイプ | VoR | |||||
| 出版タイプResource | http://purl.org/coar/version/c_970fb48d4fbd8a85 | |||||
| 日本十進分類法 | ||||||
| 主題Scheme | NDC | |||||
| 主題 | 815 | |||||
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| 主題Scheme | Other | |||||
| 主題 | 言語学 | |||||
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| 内容記述タイプ | Abstract | |||||
| 内容記述 | This study concerns the theory of parameters in general, the semantics of Japanese common nouns (CNs) in particular. It is an attempt to find a parametric account for the NP typology, and is also an attempt to provide a proper semantic theory which will encompass a variety of issues surrounding this universal lexical class: the mass/count distinction, genericity, and quantification. These issues, which have been scrutinized independently in the literature, will be raised and discussed in one perspective, i.e., a quest for some semantic universals of this lexical class. The hypothesis which I examine and defend here is that a parametric schema in syntax is provided by semantic feature differences intrinsic to a universal lexical class. The parametric feature I propose is one which determines either a quantificational or a generic interpretation as the canonical one for a language. If the CN denotation consists of a predicate which is to define a sortal object (set) and a free variable which is to provide means to quantify over the entities (Gupta, 1980), a nominal domain can be built either by taking the predicate part primitive, or by taking the variable part primitive. The former choice will yield a language with a generic interpretation as the canonical one (Japanese), the latter, a language with a quantificational interpretation as the canonical one (English). Adopting the type of nominal domain proposed by Link (1983), I propose a single, multi-sorted domain for the interpretation of Japanese CNs matched by multi-sorted variables which are selected for by verbal predicates and which determine the interpretation as mass, singular or plural. The analyses presented here have a number of relevant aspects with those theories recently developed in the formal semantics including Partee's type-shifting principles (1987), and Heim's quantifier-free interpretation of indefinites (1982). It will be argued that Japanese case-marking particles are determiners which perform some universal typeshifting functions. The quantification in Japanese will be characterized as NP-external quantification, which is a direct consequence of the parametric choice that a language makes for the nominal domain. | |||||
