著者

関谷 一彦 Kazuhiko Sekitani

雑誌

言語と文化 (ISSN:13438530)

巻号頁・発行日

no.19, pp.63-77, 2016-03-01

著者

尾鼻 靖子 Yasuko Obana

出版者

関西学院大学言語教育研究センター紀要委員会

雑誌

言語と文化 (ISSN:13438530)

巻号頁・発行日

no.23, pp.19-34, 2020-03

著者

河村 克俊 Katsutoshi Kawamura

雑誌

言語と文化 (ISSN:13438530)

巻号頁・発行日

no.17, pp.59-77, 2014-03-01

著者

丹治 恆次郎

出版者

関西学院大学

雑誌

言語と文化 (ISSN:13438530)

巻号頁・発行日

no.6, pp.87-107, 2003-03

著者

厳 廷美

出版者

関西学院大学言語教育研究センター紀要委員会

雑誌

言語と文化 (ISSN:13438530)

巻号頁・発行日

no.15, pp.29-42, 2012-03

著者

八木 克正

出版者

関西学院大学

雑誌

言語と文化 = 語言与文化 (ISSN:13438530)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.2, pp.1-10, 1999-03-01

著者

尾鼻 靖子 Yasuko Obana

雑誌

言語と文化 (ISSN:13438530)

巻号頁・発行日

no.18, pp.15-28, 2015-03-01

著者

大高 博美 神谷 厚徳 Hiromi Otaka Atsunori Kamiya

雑誌

言語と文化 (ISSN:13438530)

巻号頁・発行日

no.16, pp.17-23, 2013-03-01

著者

八木 克正

出版者

関西学院大学

雑誌

言語と文化 = 語言与文化 (ISSN:13438530)

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vol.9, pp.1-17, 2006-03-01

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This study is a critical review on the theories widely (and erroneously) held on adverbials very and much from the perspective of semantic syntax, which I first advocated in Yagi (1999). Since then I have published many articles to prove its validity as a theory of linguistic analysis of English. Those articles cover such wide range of areas as syntax and semantics of predicative adjectives, predicative nouns, verb complementation, and such phraseological units as "pretty much," "forget it" and "forget about it," and "but also." This article has double purposes: to disprove the various fallacies about very and much, on one hand, and to prove the validity of the theory of semantic syntax on the other. An example of erroneous views on very and much is that, in the case of -ed pre-modification by much or very, very modifies adjectives and therefore -ed's modified by very are adjectives, while much modifies the past participle of the verb and the -ed's modified by much are therefore verbs in their past participle forms. Thus, the concerned in Jane is very concerned about her son is an adjective because it is modified by very, while the concerned in Jane is much concerned with appearances is the past participle of the verb concern because it is modified by much. This kind of theory, because it disregards the semantic aspects of very and much, explains very little about English grammar. It is apparent that much and very have many aspects of contrast in their syntactic behavior, and their analyses and discussions have their foci on their syntactic differences. It seems almost impossible, however, to uniformly explain why they behave so differently in syntax without taking their semantic differences into consideration. Semantic syntax is concerned with how meaning, which is not directly observable, is represented in directly observable syntactic forms. If a grammatical theory does not refer to the meanings of syntactic forms, its significance is greatly reduced. Language is not so semantically vacuous as to allow us to find explanations only in syntax. This paper explains how very and much, especially "very much" as a phraseological unit, are semantically different and, therefore, how they behave syntactically differently.

著者

于 康 Kang Yu

雑誌

言語と文化 (ISSN:13438530)

巻号頁・発行日

no.16, pp.59-75, 2013-03-01

著者

山田 武雄

出版者

関西学院大学

雑誌

言語と文化 = 語言与文化 (ISSN:13438530)

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vol.7, pp.83-99, 2004-03-01

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Robert Frost (1874-1963) published his 8th book of poetry, Steeple Bush (1947), when he was 73 years old. As an aged person, he was afraid that general readers as well as his literary critics might think that he was already past his poetic prime. As if he tried to show his youthfulness, he actually cultivated in Steeple Bush new fields of his poetic world, one of which was to write several political satires or epigrams against atomic bombs. These poems are often neglected, and the white-haired poet also didn't mention them or seldom read them in his public lectures. This is because he wanted to be an influential, great poet-statesman as he sometimes said clearly in public. He was afraid that these poems might bring him bad effects if they were too direct and attacked the government authorities too severely, which was the reason he chose poetic forms of epigram or satire and took an ambiguous, optimistic attitude. In a sense he was right in writing this kind of difficult poems of epigram or satire, because these poems didn't attract so much attention, and he was chosen to read his best-known, patriotic poem, "The Gift Outright," by J. F. Kennedy at his presidential inauguration. Although these poems are so ambiguous and at the same time difficult that we are apt to be irritated in trying to understand the real state of his mind, we should pay more attention to them. When we read them carefully we can understand his humanitarian character and gradually realize that he couldn't help protesting "a new Holocaust" (CPPP 399) as "a political separatist," not as a propagandist, although these poems were too idealistic and optimistic.

著者

河村 克俊

出版者

関西学院大学言語教育研究センタ-紀要委員会

雑誌

言語と文化 (ISSN:13438530)

巻号頁・発行日

no.14, pp.91-109[含 ドイツ語文要旨], 2011-03

著者

河村 克俊 Katsutoshi Kawamura

雑誌

言語と文化 (ISSN:13438530)

巻号頁・発行日

no.13, pp.147-165, 2010-03-10

著者

山上 浩嗣

出版者

関西学院大学言語教育研究センタ-紀要委員会

雑誌

言語と文化 (ISSN:13438530)

巻号頁・発行日

no.10, pp.79-96, 2007-03

著者

嶋村 誠

出版者

関西学院大学

雑誌

言語と文化 = 語言与文化 (ISSN:13438530)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.3, pp.19-31, 2000-03

著者

関谷 一彦

出版者

関西学院大学言語教育研究センタ-紀要委員会

雑誌

言語と文化 (ISSN:13438530)

巻号頁・発行日

no.13, pp.125-145[含 フランス語文要旨], 2010-03