Shigeru Miyagawa - 国際言語文化研究科

名古屋大学大学院国際言語文化研究科 (第50回日本語教育学講座講演会)
南山大学言語学研究センター共催
The Syntax of Participants
シンタックスの中の話者と聞き手
参加費は無料です。
講演は日本語です。
日程：2016年６月17日金曜日, 午後５時30分から午後７時まで
場所：名古屋大学全学教育棟・北棟406号室
連絡先：名古屋大学玉岡賀津雄 [email protected]
講演者
Shigeru
Miyagawa
アメリカ合衆国
マサチューセッツ工科大学(MIT)
教授
Abstract: We formulate an attempt to understand what we call the Syntax of Participants (SOP).
SOP is concerned with a variety of linguistic phenomena that occur at the interface of syntax
and pragmatics: sentential particles, allocutive agreement that marks politeness, interjections,
and so forth. These share the trait of referencing either the speaker or the hearer, or both. For
example, the allocutive agreement in certain Basque dialects agrees with the hearer, thus it is
always 2nd person, despite the fact that there is no 2nd person entity in any of the argument
positions (Oyharçabal 1993). The allocutive is a regular form of agreement, hence it must enter
into a probe-goal relation. Using a modern version of Ross’s Performative Analysis proposed by
Speas and Tenney (2003) and Haegeman and Hill (2011), we show that the goal of the
allocutive is the representation of the Hearer in Ross’s performative structure and what Speas
and Tenney more recently call the Speech Act Phrase (SAP). I argue that the politeness marking
-des-/-mas- in Japanese is a form of allocutive agreement (Miyagawa 2012, in press). Cross
linguistically SOP phenomena are highly restricted in distribution, being available only in root
clauses. We explore the idea that in fact their distribution reflects Emonds’s original conception
of the Root: the highest S in a tree, an S immediately dominated by the highest S or the reported
S in direct discourse. If this is correct, what Emonds (1969) identified was the distribution of
the Speech Act Phrase.
Note: This presentation is part of a joint paper presented with Liliane Haegeman at the 39th GLOW. The material for this presentation is drawn
from Miyagawa (2012, in press). Reference: Miyagawa, S. (In press). Agreement Beyond Phi. Linguistic Inquiry Monograph, MIT Press.

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