Updated on 2024/08/19

 
GOTO Mariko
 
Affiliation
Institute of Liberal Arts Department of Foreign Languages
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Professor
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Research Interests

  • Linguistics

  • English Historical Linguistics

  • Prescriptivism

  • Cognitive Linguistics

  • Teaching English as a second language TEASOL

  • English

Research Areas

  • Humanities & Social Sciences / Historical studies in general

  • Humanities & Social Sciences / English linguistics

  • Humanities & Social Sciences / Linguistics

Undergraduate Education

  • 1983.03   Kyushu University   Faculty of Literature   Graduated   Japan

Post Graduate Education

  • 1986.03   Kyushu University   Graduate School, Division of Letters   English Linguistics   Doctoral Program   Unfinished Course   Japan

Degree

  • Kyushu University  -  Ph.D.   2008.03

Biography in Kyutech

  • 2016.04
     

    Kyushu Institute of Technology   Institute of Liberal Arts   Department of Foreign Languages   Professor  

  • 2014.11
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    2016.03
     

    Kyushu Institute of Technology   Faculty of Computer Science and Systems Engineering   Department of Human Sciences   Professor  

  • 2008.04
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    2014.10
     

    Kyushu Institute of Technology   Faculty of Computer Science and Systems Engineering   Department of Human Sciences   Associate Professor  

Biography before Kyutech

  • 1986.04 - 1988.03   Kwassui Women's Junior College   Lecturer   Japan

Academic Society Memberships

  • 1999.04   Japanese Cognitive Science Society   Japan

  • 2011.12   International Conference on English Historical Linguistics   Others

  • 1985.04   The English Linguistic Society of Japan   Japan

  • 2003.04   Fukuoka Cognitive Linguistics Association   Japan

  • 2014.10   International Pragmatics Association   Belgium

  • 2011.03   The International Society for Historical Linguistics   United Kingdom

  • 2000.04   The Japanese Association for Studies in the History of the English Language   Japan

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Research Career

  • 英語の現在時制諸現象の包括的説明に関わる「状態性」を巡る通時的・共時的研究

    仮定法現在と接続法 / 英語の現在時制 / 状態性 / 現実性・断定 / 単純現在形文法書記述

    研究期間： 2022.04  -  2025.03

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    本研究は、英語の多種多様な現在時制諸現象を、「状態性」を核に、一貫した原理で、より包括的な記述を図るものである。単純現在形は、現在・過去・未来の、または時間を超越した事象、等を表す等とされ、統一性を欠く用法列挙で記述されることが多い。先行研究記述の守備範囲も不十分で、主な用法に関しては示唆に富むものがあっても、例外も少なくない。本研究では「状態性」を、同じ現在時制形態素を共有する、単純現在形、現在進行形、現在完了形現象を貫く基軸概念と仮定し、これを語用論・認知言語学・歴史言語学・類型論・社会言語学の知見や集積を視野に入れ、体系的に追求し論証する。

  • The Aspectual Restriction on the English Progressive

    The Aspectual Restriction on the English Progressive

    研究期間： 2012.04  -  2017.03

  • 進行形の意味機能を巡るState概念の精緻化に関する通時的・共時的研究

    状態進行形 / 状態性 / 進行形 / 英国18世紀書簡 / エピソード文体 / 話し言葉 / V-ing形 / 進行形の歴史

    研究期間： 2017.04  -  2022.03

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    前年度に引き続き、18 世紀の多様な英語活版印刷物のPDFフルテキストアーカイブECCO （Eighteenth Century Collections Online）から、実在した人物の声を反映する書簡を中心に、コンテクストを読み込みつつ目を通し、the be+V-ing構文（通称進行形）を拾い集め続けると共に、使われ方を考察した。（進捗状況は、現時点で2020年度までに終了する計画だった分の6割程。）前半は、4月-7月の調査研究において、特に、状態進行形（一般に状態動詞と呼ばれてきた動詞を現在分詞の語幹とする進行形、及び、これまで確立してきた「状態」の定義に照らしても「純粋に状態を表していると十分考えられる進行形」）について、近現代を通じた先行研究が観察し言及してきた歴史的データや事実を、改めて18世紀の使用実態と比較しつつ、再検討した。

    その結果として、進行形の語用論的観点からみた様々な使用の場での役割が、現代も含め歴史を通じ一貫し、進行形の根幹的意味と核機能と符合することを論証できた。就中、18世紀文献における、話し言葉を反映する度合いが高いと考えられる、知人との近況に関するのやり取りなどの内容を中心とした書簡においては、進行形自体も、上記の意味での状態進行形も、現代の話し言葉におけるものと、ある程度近い頻度で使われていた可能性を、現在まで得られたデータ示唆することを確認した。

  • Interdisciplinary Studies on the Aspectual Restriction on the Progressive

    Pickbourn (1789), Lowth (1762), Lindley Murray, English Grammar, Webster, the Progressive

    研究期間： 2013.04  -  2017.03

  • A Diachronic and Synchronic Study on the V-ing form in English

    he English V-ing form, North Germanic Languages, Welsh Verbal Noun, the development of the English gerund

    研究期間： 2009.04  -  2012.03

  • 認知言語学から見た進行形の制限に関する通時的・共時的研究

    規範文法 / 18世紀英国社会 / 進行形の本質 / 進行形の制限 / Knowles (1796) / 現代標準英語の進行形 / 認知言語学 / 現代英語における進行形のアスペクト制限 / 英語の単純形 / 18-19世紀の英文法記述 / 近代後期英文法書の社会的意義 / 近代後期英国の英語教育 / 英語の標準化

    研究期間： 2013.04  -  2017.03

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    本研究の目的は、現代標準英語進行形構文現在分詞の語幹がLangacker (1991, 2008)の言うPerfectiveでなければならないという制限があるのは何故かを解き明かすことにあったが、この常識とされてきた制限は、近代ー現代話し言葉の、標準を含む多様で自然な英語においては実は存在しないと考えた方が事実と合致するという結論に至った。その論拠として、Webster (1784)の進行形見解を進行形現象を再考すると多岐に亘る進行形現象を説明する核概念とできること、制限を唱えるPickbourn (1789)の論拠の脆弱性をBeattie (1783)との議論比較等により明らかにした。

  • The English Present Tense Morpheme and the Present Perfect Construction

    The Semantic-function of the English Tense Morpheme, Mechanism of the English Tense

    研究期間： 2006.04  -  2008.03

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Papers

  • The Simple and Periphrastic Forms in the English Present Tense Reviewed

    HIGUCHI, Mariko Goto

    The Fukuoka Linguistic Circle 50th Anniversary Memorial Essay Collections ( Fukuoka Linguistic Circle )   1 ( 1 )   335 - 351   意味論・語用論   2024.03

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    Authorship：Lead author   Language：Japanese   Publishing type：Research paper (scientific journal)

    Distinctions between the English simple and Be+V-ing forms have perplexed the users since the 18th century and obfuscated scholars in much a larger scale in the 20th century. This is attributable to Prescriptivism in 19th century grammars intertwined with the vague aspectual concepts　introduced to English from Slavic languages. This study, re-evaluating 18th century descriptions of differences between the two forms, suggests that the simple form takes a broader view of the state of affairs, while the Be+V-ing form focuses attention on a phase at an intermediate temporal spot in the course of the situation which can be stative or dynamic.

  • Habitual Progressives and Stativity Invited Reviewed

    Mariko GOTO HIGUCHI

    Journal of Cognitive Linguistics   4   12 - 34   2019.03

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  • The Progressive in Its Spontaneity

    HIGUCHI, Mariko

    Bulletin of Kyushu Institute of Technology, Liberal Arts   ( 1 )   29 - 41   2017.03

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  • Stative Progressives in 18-century Letters and Stativity Invited Reviewed

    HIGICHI, Mariko

    Towards the Future of Cognitive Linguistics ( Kaitakusha )   300 - 311   2022.03

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    This study analyzes stative progressives actually used in 18th-century letters, examining the be+V-ing construction mainly in Eighteenth Century Collection Online. The findings being compared with the ones from a BNC corpus research focusing on the stative progressive in colloquial English, it suggests that usage of the construction would have been quite consistent and demonstrates that the progressive is compatible not only with statives construable as possibly dynamic but also with genuinely stative situations both in 18-century and Present-day English.

  • An Review Article on Teaching Only English in Foreign Language Education Fails Invited Reviewed

    HIGUCHI, Mariko Goto

    STUDIES IN ENGLISH LITERATURE ( THE ENGLISH LITERARY SOCIETY OF JAPAN )   XCVII ( December 2020 )   141 - 146   2020.12

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    This review article first overviews the pitiful condition of English education in Japan and the diverse aspects of the causes discussed by the 5 authors who have long been sounding alarm bells. At the same time, misleading measures that have kept failing to improve the system over 100 years are analyzed. Then this paper proposes a challenging but feasible solution as a breakthrough.

  • 'Stative Aspect' and the Progressive

    HIGUCHI, Mariko

    Bulletin of the Graduate School of Computer Science and Systems Engineering Kyushu Institute of Technology, Human Sciences   ( 29 )   11 - 60   2016.03

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  • Diachronic Cognitive Analysis on the BE + V-ING Form and Stativity Reviewed

    HIGUCHI, Mariko Goto

    UK Cognitive Linguistics Conference 2020 ( UK Cognitive Linguistics Association )   2020.07

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    英国   バーミンガム   2020.07.29  -  2020.07.31

  • Pickbourn (1789) and the Aspectual Restriction on the Progressive

    HIGUCHI, Mariko

    The Bulletin of the Graduate School of Computer Science and Systems Engineering Kyushu Institute of Technology, Human Sciences   ( 27 )   1 - 35   2014.03

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  • From the Middle Welsh VN to the Present-day Standard English Progressive

    HIGUCHI, Mariko

    Bulletin of the Graduate School of Computer Science and Systems Engineering Kyushu Institute of Technology, Human Sciences   ( 25 )   9 - 35   2012.03

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  • 英語・ノルウェー語の-ing形とウエールズ語のVNに関する覚え書き￢―通時的・共時的・類型論的考察へ向けて―

    後藤　万里子

    九州工業大学情報工学研究院紀要   ( 24 )   1 - 71   2011.03

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  • 現代英語の進行形の歴史と制限  歴史認知言語学の試み 

    後藤　万里子

    九州工業大学情報工学研究院紀要   ( 23 )   2010.03

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  • 英語の進行形構文の謎

    後藤　万里子

    B九州工業大学情報工学部紀要（人文・社会科学編）   22   19 - 50   2009.03

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  • 認知言語学からみた歴史言語学 Reviewed

    後藤　万里子

    月刊言語   38 ( 2 )   50 - 57   2009.02

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    主要雑誌

  • The Semantic Structure of the English Present Perfect Progressive Reviewed

    The Semantic Structure of the English Present Perfect Progressive," Proceedings of the Ninth Annual Meeting of the Japanese Cognitive Linguistics Association JCLA 9   9   457 - 462   2008.06

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  • A Review on Mental Spaces in Grammar: Conditional Constructions by Barbara Dancygier and Eve Sweetser Reviewed

    Studies in English Literature, English Number   49 ( English Number )   200 - 206   2008.03

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  • 英語の現在完了形の時制の意味機能 Reviewed

    後藤　万里子

    Proceedings of the Seventh Annual Meeting of the Japanese Cognitive Linguistics Association JCLA   ( 7 )   457 - 467   2007.09

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  • Why Performatives are in the Simple Present Reviewed

    The 10th International Cognitive Linguistics Conference   10   2007.07

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    Poland   Krakow   2007.07.15  -  2007.07.21

  • Does the English Present Perfect Assert a Past Event? Reviewed

    International Cognitive Linguistics Conference   9   2006.04

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    2006.04  -  2006.04

  • The Meaning of the English Present Perfect Reviewed

    The 8th International Cognitive Linguistics Conference   8   2006.04

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    2006.04  -  2006.04

  • The Aspectual Value of the English Simple Present and Performative Sentences

    ( 20 )   31 - 81   2006.03

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    Bulletin of the Faculty of Computer Science and Systems Engineering, Kyushu Institute of Technology (Human Science)   ( 19 )   19 - 50   2006.03

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  • 認知言語学からみた歴史的現在 Reviewed

    後藤　万里子

    英語青年   151 ( 9 )   2005.12

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  • The Semantic Properties of the English Present Perfect Participle

    Bulletin of the Faculty of Computer Science and Systems Engineering, Kyushu Institute of Technology (Human Science)   ( 17 )   9 - 41   2004.03

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  • "The Present and the English Present Perfect" Reviewed

    後藤　万里子

    <i>Rising Generation, June Edition</i>   149 ( 3 )   180 - 181   2003.04

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  • 樋口万里子「英語の完了形と時間副詞句」

    後藤　万里子

    九州工業大学情報工学部紀要人間科学編第16号   13 - 38   2003.04

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  • The English Perfect and Adverbials

    Bulletin of the Faculty of Computer Science and Systems Engineering, Kyushu Institute of Technology   ( 16 )   13 - 38   2003.04

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  • 樋口万里子「英語の完了形と現在」

    後藤　万里子

    『英語青年』6月号   149 ( 3 )   180 - 181   2003.04

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  • 樋口万里子「現時完了のからくりと副詞」『「ことば」のからくり-河上誓作教授引退記念論文集-」

    後藤　万里子

    英宝社   509 - 523   2003.04

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  • 『認知とコミュニケーション』

    後藤　万里子

    未入力   第3章と第4章1、3節   2003.04

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  • 英語の完了形の仕組みと副詞句

    後藤　万里子

    九州工業大学情報工学部紀要（人間科学編）   ( 16 )   13 - 38   2003.03

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  • 英語の時制現象に関わるSOAの意味役割

    後藤　万里子

    九州工業大学情報工学部紀要（人間科学篇   第15号   2002.04

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  • The Role of SOA in Understanding "Tense" Phenomena

    Bulletin of the Faculty of Computer Science and Systems Engineering   No.15   2002.04

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  • 「英語の時制現象に関わる SCA の意味役割」

    後藤　万里子

    九州工業大学情報工学部紀要（人文・社会科学）   15   49 - 70   2002.04

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  • The Role of SOA in Understanding "Tense" Phonomena

    後藤　万里子

    Bulletin of the Faculty of Computer Science and Systems Engineering, Kyushu Institute of Technology   ( 15 )   49 - 70   2002.04

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  • The Role of SOA in Understanding 'Tense' Phonomena

    Bulletin of the Faculty of Computer Science and Systems Engineering, Kyushu Institute of Technology   ( 15 )   49 - 70   2002.04

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  • 日本語の時制表現と事態認知視点

    後藤　万里子

    九州工業大学 情報工学部紀要   ( 14 )   53 - 81   2001.04

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  • 「日本語の時制表現と事態認知視点」

    後藤　万里子

    九州工業大学情報工学部紀要（人文・社会科学）   14   53 - 81   2001.04

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  • Tenses in Japanes, Viewpoint and the Speech Time

    Bulletin of the Faculty of Computer Science and Systems Engineering, Kyushu Institute of Technology   ( 14 )   53 - 81   2001.04

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  • Tenses in Japanes, Viewpoint and the Speech Time

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    Bulletin of the Faculty of Computer Science and Systems Engineering, Kyushu Institute of Technology   ( 14 )   53 - 81   2001.04

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  • Tenses in Japanese, Viewpoint and the Speech time

    Bulletin of the Faculty of Computer Science and Systems Engineering Kyushu Institute of Technology   ( 14 )   53 - 81   2001.04

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  • ル/タ,テイルの意味機能試論:認知文法の見地から

    後藤　万里子

    九州工業大学情報工学部紀要(人間科学)   ( 13 )   1 - 40   2000.04

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  • Japanese'ru', 'ta'and'teiru'from Cognitive Perspective

    Bulletin of the Faculty of Computer Science and Systems Engineering Kyushu Institute of Technology(Human Sciences)   ( 13 )   1 - 40   2000.04

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  • ル／タ、テイルに意味機能試論：認知文法の見地から

    後藤　万里子

    九州工業大学情報工学部紀要（人文・社会科学）   13   1 - 40   2000.04

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  • Japanese 'ru', 'ta' &amp; 'teiru' from a Cognitive Perspective

    Bulletin of the Faculty of Computer Science and Systems Engineering, Kyushu Institute of Technology   ( 13 )   1 - 40   2000.04

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  • Japanese 'ru', 'ta' &amp; 'teiru' from a Cognitive Perspective

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    Bulletin of the Faculty of Computer Science and Systems Engineering, Kyushu Institute of Technology   ( 13 )   1 - 40   2000.04

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  • 日本語の時制表現と事態認知視点

    後藤　万里子

    九州工業大学情報工学部紀要（人間科学）   　　　 ( 14 )   53 - 81   2000.04

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  • 日本語の時制表現と事態認知視点

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    九州工業大学情報工学部紀要   14 ( 14 )   53 - 81   2000.04

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  • 「概念構造,談話と言語」書評 Reviewed

    後藤　万里子

    未入力   89 - 95   1999.04

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  • 'The Role of Functional-Interactive Tools in Describing Tense in English' Reviewed

    <i>English Linguistics</i>, The English Linguistics Society of Japan   ( 16.1 )   184 - 209   1999.04

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  • A Review on Conceptual Structure, Discourse and Language Reviewed

    Studies in English Literature   0 ( English Number 1999 )   89 - 95   1999.04

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  • 不定冠詞主語単純現在総称文の意味特性 Reviewed

    後藤　万里子

    九州工業大学情報工学部紀要   １ ( 第12号 )   37 - 67   1999.04

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  • "The Role of Functional-Interactive Tools in Describing Tense in English" Reviewed

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    <i>English Linguistics</i>, The English Linguistics Society of Japan   ( 16.1 )   184 - 209   1999.04

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  • A Review on <i>Conceptual Structure, Discourse and Language</i> Reviewed

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    Studies in English Literature, English Number, The English Literary Society of Japan   English Number   89 - 95   1999.04

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  • "The Role of Functional-Interactive Tools in Describing Tenes in English." Reviewed

    後藤　万里子

    <i>English Linguistics</i>   16 ( 1 )   184 - 209   1999.04

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    1999.04  -  1999.04

  • "A review on Conceptual Structure, Discource and Language" (Adele E. Goldberg ed.) Reviewed

    後藤　万里子

    Studies in English Literature, English Number, The English Literary Society of Japan   89 - 95   1999.04

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    1999.04  -  1999.04

  • 不定冠詞主語単純現在総称文の意味特性

    後藤　万里子

    九州工業大学情報工学部(人間科学篇)   ( 12 )   37 - 67   1999.04

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  • Genericity of Simple Present Singular Generics

    Bulletin of the Faculty of Computer Science and Systems Engineering, Kyushu Institute of Technology   ( 12 )   37 - 67   1999.04

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  • 不定冠詞主語単純現在形総称文の意味機能

    後藤　万里子

    九州工業大学情報工学部紀要（人文・社会科学）   ( 12 )   37 - 67   1999.04

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  • Genericity of Simple Present Singular Genetics

    後藤　万里子

    Bulletin of the Faculty of Computer Science and Systems Engineering, Kyushu Institute of Technology   ( 12 )   37 - 67   1999.04

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  • ル／タ、テイルの意味機能試論：認知文法の見地から

    後藤　万里子

    九州工業大学情報工学部紀要   0 ( 13 )   1 - 40   1999.04

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  • Genericity of Simple Present Singular Genetics

    Bulletin of the Faculty of Computer Science and Systems Engineering, Kyushu Institute of Technology   ( 12 )   37 - 67   1999.04

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  • The Simple Present Tense Used as Historical Present in English

    Bulletin of the Faculty of Computer Science and Systems Engineering, Kyushu Institute of Technology   ( 11 )   56 - 94   1998.04

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  • The Simple Present Tense Used as Historical Present in English

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    Bulletin of the Faculty of Computer Science and Systems Engineering, Kyushu Institute of Technology   ( 11 )   56 - 94   1998.04

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  • The Simple Present Tense Used as Historical Present in English

    Bulletin of the Faculty of Computer Science and Systems Engineering, Kyushu Institute of Technology   ( 11 )   59 - 94   1998.04

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  • A Cognitive Aspectual Distinction and the English Progressive

    Bulletin of the Faculty of Computer Science and Systems Engineering Kyushu Institute of Technology   ( 10 )   117 - 153   1997.04

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  • 英語の進行形に関わるアスペクトの認知的特性

    後藤　万里子

    九州工業大学情報工学部紀要   ( 10 )   117 - 153   1997.04

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  • 英語の進行形に関すアスペクトの認知的特性

    後藤　万里子

    九州工業大学情報工学部紀要（人文・社会科学）   10   117 - 153   1997.04

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  • A Cognitive Aspectual Distinctin and the English Progressive

    後藤　万里子

    Bulletin of the Faculty of Computer Science and Systems Engineering, Kyushu Institute of Technology   ( 10 )   117 - 153   1997.04

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  • A Cognitive Aspectual Distinctin and the English Progressive

    Bulletin of the Faculty of Computer Science and Systems Engineering, Kyushu Institute of Technology   ( 10 )   117 - 153   1997.04

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  • 大学における使うための英語教育-SAPL-の分析と実践

    後藤　万里子

    九州工業大学情報工学部紀要   ( 9 )   9 - 38   1996.04

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  • 「大学における使うための英語教育-SAPL の分析と実践--」

    後藤　万里子

    九州工業大学情報工学部紀要（人文・社会科学）   9   9 - 38   1996.04

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  • Teaching Students to Use English through SAPL: Analysis on SAPL Classes

    Bulletin of the Faculty of Computer Science and Systems Engineering, Kyushu Institute of Technology   ( 9 )   9 - 38   1996.04

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  • Teaching Students to Use English through SAPL: Analysis on SAPL Classes

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    Bulletin of the Faculty of Computer Science and Systems Engineering, Kyushu Institute of Technology   ( 9 )   9 - 38   1996.04

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  • Teaching Students to Use English through SPAL : Analizing SPAL and SAPL Classes

    Bulletin of the Faculty of Computer Science and Systems Engineering Kyushu Institute of Technology   ( 9 )   9 - 38   1996.04

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  • Viewing HP and the Present Tense in English Reviewed

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  • 英語の現在時制と静止画像的イメージ

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    九州工業大学情報工学部   ( 8 )   67 - 100   1995.04

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  • Static Image and the Present Tense in English

    Bulletin of the Faculty of Computer Science and Systems Engineering Kyushu Institute of Technology   ( 8 )   67 - 100   1995.04

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  • 英語の歴史的現在 -静止画像の連続的スキャニング-

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    未入力   1995.04

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  • <What happens>と<What happened>の違いについて

    後藤　万里子

    未入力   1995.04

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  • 歴史的現在の視点移動説の問題点と現在時制の視点

    後藤　万里子

    未入力   1995.04

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  • Static Image and the Present Tense in English

    後藤　万里子

    九州工業大学情報工学部紀要（人文・社会科学）   8   67 - 100   1995.04

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  • Static Image and the Present Tense in English

    Bulletin of the Faculty of Computer Science and Systems Engineering, Kyushu Institute of Technology   ( 8 )   67 - 100   1995.04

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  • Static Image and the Present Tense in English

    後藤　万里子

    Bulletin of the Faculty of Computer Science and Systems Engineering, Kyushu Institute of Technology   ( 8 )   67 - 100   1995.04

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  • Teachers' and Students' Opinion about English Education at K. I. T. Iizuka

    Bulletin of the Faculty of Computer Science and Systems Engineering. Kyushu Institute of Technology   ( 7 )   43 - 63   1994.04

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  • 九州工業大学情報工学部における英語カリキュラム改革と英語教育に関する在校生・教官の意見-アンケート調査結果-

    後藤　万里子

    九州工業大学情報工学部紀要   ( 7 )   43 - 63   1994.04

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  • 九州工業大学情報工学部における英語カリキュラム改革と英語教育に関する在校生・教官の意見　-アンケート調査結果--

    後藤　万里子

    九州工業大学情報工学部紀要（人文・社会科学）   7   43 - 63   1994.04

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  • Teachers' and Students' Opinion about English Education at KIT, Iizuka

    後藤　万里子

    Bulletin of the Faculty of Computer Science and Systems Engineering, Kyushu Institute of Technology   ( 7 )   43 - 63   1994.04

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  • Teachers' and Students' Opinion about English Education at KIT, Iizuka

    Bulletin of the Faculty of Computer Science and Systems Engineering, Kyushu Institute of Technology   ( 7 )   43 - 63   1994.04

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  • 認知文法から見た時制の一致現象

    後藤　万里子

    九州工業大学情報工学部紀要   6   1 - 22   1993.04

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  • 認知文法からみた時制の一致現象

    後藤　万里子

    九州工業大学情報工学部紀要（人文・社会科学）   6   1 - 24   1993.04

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  • 事柄の認識と時制の一致現象『言語学からの眺望』福岡言語学研究会編

    後藤　万里子

    九州大学出版会   269 - 283   1993.04

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  • A Cognitive Explanation of Sequence of Tenses Phenomena

    Bulletin of the Faculty of Computer Science and Systems Engineering, Kyushu Institute of Technology   ( 6 )   1 - 24   1993.04

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  • A Cognitive Explanation of Sequence of Tenses Phenomena

    後藤　万里子

    Bulletin of the Faculty of Computer Science and Systems Engineering, Kyushu Institute of Technology   ( 6 )   1 - 24   1993.04

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  • A Cognitive Explanations of Sequence of Tenses Phenomena

    Bulletin of the Faculty of Computer Science and Systems Engineering Kyushu Institute of Technology   6   1 - 22   1993.04

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  • 現在時制の意味機能

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    九州工業大学情報工学部紀要   5   1992.04

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  • 現在時制の意味機能

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    九州工業大学情報工学部紀要（人文・社会科学）   5   75 - 99   1992.04

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  • The Meaning and Function of the English Present Tense in English

    後藤　万里子

    Bulletin of the Faculty of Computer Science and Systems Engineering, Kyushu Institute of Technology   ( 5 )   75 - 99   1992.04

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  • The Meaning and Function of the English Present Tense in English

    Bulletin of the Faculty of Computer Science and Systems Engineering, Kyushu Institute of Technology   ( 5 )   75 - 99   1992.04

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  • Meaning and Function of Present Tense in English

    Bulletin of the Faculty of Computer Science and Systems Engineering Kyushu Institute of Technology(Human Sciences)   5   1992.04

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  • Will and Be going to: preset thought and present reality

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    九州工業大学情報工学部紀要（人文・社会科学）   4   53 - 70   1991.04

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  • <i>Will</i> and <i>Be going to</i>: Present Thought and Present Reality

    Bulletin of the Faculty of Computer Science and Systems Engineering, Kyushu Institute of Technology   ( 4 )   53 - 70   1991.04

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  • <i>Will</i> and <i>Be going to</i>: Present Thought and Present Reality

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    Bulletin of the Faculty of Computer Science and Systems Engineering, Kyushu Institute of Technology   ( 4 )   53 - 70   1991.04

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  • Willとbe going to-思考表現と現実描写

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    九州工業大学情報工学部紀要   4   1991.04

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  • meaning and Function of Free Thought Space Builders

    Bulletin of the Faculty of Computer Science and Systems Engineering Kyushu Institute of Technology   3   1990.04

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  • 仮定法に関わる形式のFree Thought Space Buildersとしての意味機能

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    九州工業大学情報工学部紀要   3   1990.04

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  • 仮定法による形式の Free Thought Space Builder としての意味機能

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    九州工業大学情報工学部紀要（人文・社会科学）   3   135 - 163   1990.04

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  • The Meaning and Function of Free Thought Space Builders

    Bulletin of the Faculty of Computer Science and Systems Engineering, Kyushu Institute of Technology   ( 3 )   135 - 167   1990.04

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  • The Meaning and Function of Free Thought Space Builders

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    Bulletin of the Faculty of Computer Science and Systems Engineering, Kyushu Institute of Technology   ( 3 )   135 - 167   1990.04

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  • 反事実文の前提

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    九州工業大学情報工学部紀要   2   1989.04

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  • What counterfactuals presuppose

    Bulletin of the Faculty of Computer Science and Systems Engineering Kyushu Institute of Technology   2   1989.04

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  • 反事実性の理解と表現　『英語学の視点』大江三郎先生追悼論文集編集委員会編

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    九州大学出版会   191 - 207   1989.04

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  • 反事実文の前提

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    九州工業大学情報工学部紀要（人文・社会科学）   2   67 - 100   1989.04

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  • What Counterfactuals presuppose

    Bulletin of the Faculty of Computer Science and Systems Engineering, Kyushu Institute of Technology   ( 2 )   67 - 100   1989.04

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  • What Counterfactuals presuppose

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    Bulletin of the Faculty of Computer Science and Systems Engineering, Kyushu Institute of Technology   ( 2 )   67 - 100   1989.04

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  • Understanding Tautology

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    Kwassui Review   ( 31 )   167 - 186   1988.04

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  • Understanding Tautology

    THE KWASSUI REVIEW   31   1988.04

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  • トートロジーの意味理解

    後藤　万里子

    活水論文集英米文学・英語学編   31   1988.04

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  • Understanding Tautology

    Kwassui Review   ( 31 )   167 - 186   1988.04

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  • トートロジーの意味機能

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    活水論文集　活水女子大学・短期大学　英米文学・英語学編（昭和63年3月）   167 - 186   1988.04

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  • If 節の命題と意味機能

    後藤　万里子

    活水論文集　活水女子大学・短期大学　英米文学・英語学編（昭和62年3月）   171 - 201   1987.04

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  • If節の命題と意味機能

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    活水論文集英米文学・英語学編   30   1987.04

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  • Features of Conditionals

    THE KWASSUI REVIEW   30   1987.04

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  • Features for Conditionals

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    Kwassui Review   ( 33 )   171 - 207   1987.04

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  • If and Whether Reviewed

    Cairn   ( 28 )   229 - 250   1985.04

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  • 間接疑問文導入語としての If と Whether

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    CAIRN　第28号　九州大学大学院英語学英文学研究会   229 - 250   1985.04

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  • If and Whether

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  • 間接疑問導入のIfとWhether

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    Cairn(ケアン)九州大学大学院英語学英文学研究会   28   1985.04

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  • Metaphor and Non-metaphor Reviewed

    Cairn   ( 27 )   93 - 109   1984.04

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  • Metaphor and Non-metaphor Reviewed

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    Cairn   ( 27 )   93 - 109   1984.04

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  • メタファーとノン・メタファー

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    CAIRN　第27号　九州大学大学院英語学英文学研究会（昭和59年11月）   93 - 109   1984.04

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  • 隠喩と非隠喩

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    未入力   27   1984.04

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  • Metaphor and Non-Metaphor

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Publications (Books)

  • The Fukuoka Linguistic Circle 50th Anniversary Memorial Essay Collections Reviewed

    HIGUCHI, Mariko Goto（Sole author ,  The Simple and Periphrastic Forms in the English Present Tense）

    Kaitakusha  2024.03  （ ISBN:9784758924009 ）

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    Distinctions between the English simple and Be+V-ing forms have perplexed the users since the 18th century and obfuscated scholars in much a larger scale in the 20th century. This is attributable to Prescriptivism in 19th century grammars intertwined with the vague aspectual concepts　introduced to English from Slavic languages. This study, re-evaluating 18th century descriptions of differences between the two forms, suggests that the simple form takes a broader view of the state of affairs, while the Be+V-ing form focuses attention on a phase at an intermediate temporal spot in the course of the situation which can be stative or dynamic.

  • A Festschrift for Professor Yoshihisa Nakamura on the occasion of his retirement from Kanazawa University

    HIGUCHI, Mariko（Joint author）

    Kaitakusha  2018.03  （ ISBN:9784758922548 ）

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  • Encyclopedia of Congitive Linguistics

    HIGUCHI, Mariko（Joint author）

    Asakurashoten  2017.11 

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  • An Expansion of Cogitive Linguistic Studies

    Mariko Higuchi et. al（Joint author）

    Kaitakusha  2017.09  （ ISBN:9784758922647 ）

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  • Inquiries into Language and Mind:A Festschrift for Professor Toshiaki Inada on the Occasion of His Retirement from Kyushu University

    HIGUCHI, Mariko et. al（Joint author）

    Kaitakkusha, Inquiries into Language and Mind:A Festschrift for Professor Toshiaki Inada on the Occasion of His Retirement from Kyushu University Editing Committee  2012.03  （ ISBN:978-4-7589-2171-8 ）

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  • STUDIES IN COGNITIVE LINGUISTICS

    HIGUCHI, Mariko（Joint author）

    HITSUJI SHOBO  2008.09  （ ISBN:9784894764118 ）

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  • 言葉のからくり　ー河上誓作作教授退官祈念論文集ー

    樋口　万里子（Joint author ,  第3章（５５－９９）、第4章（101、１１５－１３６））

    英宝社  2004.03  （ ISBN:4269760087 ）

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    英語の現在完了形に関する研究のこれまでの問題点とそれを解決可能にする中心原理を英語の現在完了形に付随する時制と構文の成り立ちから解明した。

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  • A Cognitive Grammar View on the Be+V-ing Construction

    Mariko Goto

    The 16th International Cognitive Linguistics Conference  2023.08  International Cognitive Linguistics Association

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    This study demonstrates how Langacker’s (1991: 209-211) cognitive grammar view of the Be+V-ing construction can help us better understand the basic core meaning of the construction. It also has a viable potential to analyze the basic contrast between the construction with an always-type adverbial (the always+Be+V-ing hereafter) and the simple counterpart diachronically as well as synchronically.
    Kranich (2010: 217) assumes that the always+Be+V-ing developed to express by default a negative speaker attitude in the 20th century, because temporariness signified by the Be+V-ing conflicts with continuity implied by the adverb. However, why the conflict should arise and lead to a negative meaning is not entirely clear. Besides, nearly half of the always+Be+V-ing is used in a non-negative sense. Moreover, already in the 18th century, the periphrasis was used in a negative sense as often as it is now. This is supported by evidence including more than 500 examples of the Be+V-ing construction with a stative verb and the always+Be+V-ing in the 18th century texts. Most of them had been left unexplored, though the latter half of the century is a critical period in investigating the construction.
    Elucidating the “internal perspective” which the construction takes on the participialized situation, Langacker (1991: 209) notes that the perspective is brought about by integrating Be functioning as the profile determinant and the head of the composite structure with the V-ing. This should effect the conceptualizer being existent in the midst of (i.e., experiencing a portion of) the participialized situation. Hence it would be reasonable to say that the construction profiles internality (inside-ness) rather than temporariness. The inside portion, captured through the perspective, obviously spans shorter than the whole, which can most likely be connected to the clearer, more focalized and vivid imageries. What triggers emotional coloring would, then, not necessarily be the conflict, but rather the close link between the clearer picture and emotional involvement (c.f. Kensinger: 2007).
    Langacker’s view needs to be freed from the traditional notion that only non-statives take the construction. As Killie’s (2014) diachronic study shows, statives also have always been taking it. However, since a stative situation also has an internal phase, where the conceptualizer can be, the internality can still explain diverse phenomena of the periphrasis most comprehensively. Langacker (1991: 262-266) notes that the simple present, including habituals, generally receives a stative construal. While He walks home is a habitual, He’s walking home can denote an internal phase of either a dynamic situation or a habitual. If Beavers always build dams predicates a habitual, so does Beavers are always building dams. It designates a metaphysical situation inductively derived from the conceptualizer’s actual individual perception of the situation ongoing whenever an occasion of assessment occurs to the speaker, whether the speaker may or may not find the animals’ behavior annoying. The difference between I love it, I’m loving it and I’m always loving it can also be described in a parallel manner.
    Furthermore, Langacker’s (1991: 26) insightful idea of profile shifting can relate the V-ing in the construction not only to the nominal V-ing but also to a diachronic fact that the form largely functioned as an abstract noun in OE (Irwin: 1967). An early variant of the construction comprising BE and {at/ in/ on}+V-ing also suggests its adequacy. Thanks to his conceptual tool devised in his theoretical framework, we can see that the periphrases with or without always have had consistent properties throughout history.

  • The BE+V-ing form with ALWAYS-type adverbials in 18th century letters

    Mariko Goto

    18th International Pragmatics Conference (ipra 2023)  2023.07  International Pragmatics Association

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    Event date： 2023.07.09 - 2023.07.14   Language：English   Country：Belgium  

    This study explores why the BE+V-ing construction with always-type adverbials such as always and continually (always-progressive for convenience) as in (1) tends to sound more emphatic or emotionally colored than the simple counterpart as in (2), examining Kranich’s view of the progressive for reference.
    (1) We are always hearing positive feedback.
    (2) We always hear positive feedback.
    Based on her quantitative data and using He is always giving people lifts as an example, Kranich (2010: 217) notes that the always-progressive seems to have developed to express, by default, negative speaker attitude in the 20th century. However, while Kranich's (2007: 131) Google search shows that 52% of always-progressives are used in a negative sense today, my survey indicates that the percentage of those yielding negative reading is around 57% in 18th-century letters.
    Also, Kranich (2007) regards the always-progressive as a special kind of progressive that needs to be treated separately from other “normal” progressives. However, the line separating the two is not clear enough. Besides, they clearly share intrinsic features of the BE+V-ing construction. For instance, the construction essentially captures an internal phase of the participialized situation, on which the conceptualizer focusses. This feature alone can be sufficient to render the picture more detailed and vivid than the simple form that describes a wide-angle picture of the whole situation denoted by the verb. Always-type adverbials, whether hyperbolic or not, correspond to a situation repetitively holding at any point in time of perception. Therefore, the always-progressive can signify the conceptualizer’s recurrent perceptions of an actual particular subset of the participialized situation. While examples (1) and (2) are both associated with a habitual practice, the former can depict it as a series of recursive phenomena and the latter a metaphysically continuing phenomenon. This would explain why example (1) can sound more emphatic than example (2) does.
    As to why the use of the always-progressive is slightly biased toward expressing a negative sense, Kranich (2007: 131) attributes it to a sort of clash between the meanings of the construction and always. However, it appears to make more sense if we link the proportion to Kensinger’s (2007) psychological research evidencing that negative emotion is remembered more accurately and minutely than positive one. More detailed memories would help us pragmatically better prepare for the future. The BE+V-ing construction that can induce a clearer picture than the simple counterpart would be more likely to be employed for describing more detailed and vivid memory. As the tendency seems to represent an aspect of human nature, the relationship between the always-progressive and negative nuance in the 18th century and now would not be so different.

  • Analysis on the Be+V-ing Construction with Always-type adverbials in the 18th Century Letter Collections and Present-day English Invited

    Mariko Higuchi

    The 32nd Conference of The Japanese Association for Studies in the History of the English Language (1999-)  2023.04  The Japanese Association for Studies in the History of the English Language

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    Event date： 2023.04.08   Language：Japanese   Country：Japan  

  • Pragmatics of the be + V-ing Form in 18th-century English Letters

    Mariko Higuchi Goto

    17th International Pragmatics Conference  International Pragmatics Association

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    Event date： 2021.06.27 - 2021.07.02   Language：English  

  • Diachronic Cognitive Analysis on the BE + V-ING Form and Stativity

    HIGUCHI, Mariko Goto

    UK Cognitive Linguistics Conference　2020  英国

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    Event date： 2020.07.25 - 2020.07.29   Language：English  

    This paper aims to reconcile what has been said for the past 300 years about the be + V-ing form in relation to stativity based on the actual usage data. First, the paper demonstrates that this periphrastic form with a “stative verb” has always been in actual substantial use since the OE period. Most intriguingly, the majority of late-modern English grammars referring to the construction, including Jones (1724), Lowth (1762), Webster (1784), Murray (1795), Bullions (1849), Kerl (1861), Nesfield (1898), employ I am loving as a model. While condemning the example started at the end of the 18th century and spread as the number of prescriptive grammars increased dramatically in the 19th century, linguistic accounts kept treating the construction as aspect-neutral (e.g. White (1870), Onions (1904), Laar (1922), Poldauf (1948), Myers (1952), and Visser (1963)). Jespersen (1932) and Zandvoort (1962) express skepticism as to whether stative constitutes a verbal category in English, examining real examples of the construction in context. At the same time, no data disagrees with the view that the form makes reference to the internal temporal constituency of the participialized situation and that stative situations do not involve change. These findings would indicate that the core function of the form can most adequately be accounted as confining the speaker’s commitment to an internal phase of the participialized situation. Characterizing the form this way can readily explain its affinity with notions such as intensity, immediacy, vividness, actuality (or phenomenality), focalization, intimacy, informality, colloquialism, and tentativeness, as well as its futurate use, the oddity of *It’s being 5 o’clock and why differentiating You’re looking good from You look good is rather difficult. Moreover, it can dispel Michaelis’s (2011) suspicion over Langacker’s (1991) description of the form as well as Granath and Wherrity’s (2013) doubt about the aspectual restriction on the progressive.

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  • Has the English Progressive Truly Resisted a Stative Construal?

    The 23rd International Conference on Historical Linguistics 

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    Event date： 2017.07.31 - 2017.08.04   Language：English  

  • Profiling Stative Situations in its Relationship with the Progressive

    The 14th International Cognitive Linguistics Conference 

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    Event date： 2017.07.10 - 2017.07.14   Language：English  

  • Grammar Writing in Late Modern English and Aspectual Restriction on the Progressive

    The 18th International Conference on English Historical Linguistics 

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    Event date： 2014.07.14 - 2014.07.18   Language：English  

  • Pickbourn (1789) and the Aspectual Restriction on the Progressive

    The 21st International Conference on Historical Linguistics 

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    Event date： 2013.08.04 - 2013.08.09   Language：English  

  • The English and Norwegian V-ing forms and the Welsh VN

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    Event date： 2011.10.08   Language：Japanese  

  • The 18-19th centuries Grammar Writing and the Aspectual Restriction on the Progressive

    The 28th Fukuoka Cognitive Linguistics Conference 

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    Event date： 2013.03.25   Language：English  

  • Interdisciplinary studies on the English Progressive

    Fukuoka Linguistics Circle 

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    Event date： 2012.05.19   Language：Japanese  

  • Identifying Be+V-ing as a construction in ECCO

    HIGUCHI, Mariko

    The 41st Fukuoka Cognitive Linguistics Conference  Fukuoka Cognitive Linguistics Association

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    Event date： 2021.03.27   Language：Japanese  

    The fact that the be + V-ing construction, which has always been more frequent in speech-based text through the history suggests that it would have been much more developed in spoken English than literature assumes. The data from ECCO and the Clift Family Correspondence 1796-1812 as well as recent studies demonstrate that the features of the construction in the 18th century are close to those of the present-day English progressive.

  • Intricacy of Profiling the Present-day English Progressive

    Brown Bag Lecture at University of Texas at San Antonio 

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    Event date： 2012.02.22   Language：English  

  • Language Contact and English V-ing

    20th International Conference on Historical Linguistics (ICHLXX) 

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    Event date： 2011.07.25 - 2011.07.30   Language：English  

  • The English V-ing Form in its History and Language Contact

    THe 28th Conference of Modern English Association 

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    Event date： 2011.05.20   Language：Japanese  

  • 英語におけるV-ing形の発達と役割分担について

    本人

    第23回福岡認知言語学会 

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    Event date： 2010.08.27   Language：Japanese  

  • 現在進行形の現在進行形研究：意味と歴史

    本人

    福岡認知言語学会 

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    Event date： 2009.09.07   Language：Japanese  

  • The Semantic Structure of the English Present Perfect Progressive

    The 9th Japanese Cognitive Linguistics Conference 

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    Event date： 2008.09.13 - 2008.09.14   Language：English  

  • The Semantic Structure of the English Present Perfect Progressive

    The 19th Fukuoka Congitive Linguistics Conference 

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    Event date： 2008.09.08   Language：English  

  • 英語の現在完了形の時制の意味機能

    本人

    日本認知言語学会第7回大会 

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    Event date： 2007.09.23 - 2007.09.24   Language：Japanese  

  • 英語の現在完了形の時制の意味機能

    本人

    第16回福岡認知言語学会 

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    Event date： 2007.08.30   Language：Japanese  

  • 英語の現在完了形と発話の場

    本人

    日本英文学会九州支部大会第57大会 

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    Event date： 2006.10.29 - 2006.10.30   Language：Japanese  

  • 現在完了形のHAVE

    本人

    第13回福岡認知言語学会 

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    Event date： 2005.03.26   Language：Japanese  

  • 英語の現在完了形の過去分詞の特性

    本人

    福岡認知言語学会 

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    Event date： 2003.08.30 - 2003.10.30   Language：Japanese  

  • 現在完了形の過去分詞の意味機能

    本人

    第8回福岡認知言語学会 

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    Event date： 2003.08.30   Language：Japanese  

  • 完了形とは何か (A Solution to the Perfect Puzzles)

    第8回福岡認知言語学会 

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    Event date： 2002.09.02   Language：Japanese  

  • A Solution to the Perfect Puzzles

    本人

    第8回福岡認知言語学会 

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    Event date： 2002.09.02   Language：Japanese  

  • ル/タ、テイルと英語の時制／相形式

    第4回福岡認知言語学会 

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    Event date： 2000.03.25   Language：Japanese  

  • Cognitive Properties of Count-singular Simple Present

    6th International Cognitive Linguistics Conference 

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    Event date： 1999.07.10 - 1999.07.16   Language：English  

  • Count-singular Genericsの意味特性

    認知言語学ジョイントワークショップ 

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    Event date： 1999.06.17 - 1999.06.18   Language：Japanese  

  • Imperfectivity & Singular Generics from Cognitive Point of View

    認知言語学フォーラム 

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    Event date： 1998.12.01   Language：Japanese  

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Lectures

  • 300 Years of English-Grammaticography and Stativity

    The 2019 General Meeting of the Regional Branches of the English Literary Society of Japan  2019.10  The English Literary Society of Japan

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    Event date： 2019.10.26   Language：Japanese   Presentation type：Invited lecture   Venue：Perfectural University of Kumamoto  

    This paper aims to reconcile what has been said fo the past 300 years about the be+ V-ing form in relation to stativity based on the actual usage data. It demonstrates that this periphrastic form with a "stative verb" has always been in actual use since the OE period. The majority of late-modern English grammars referring to the construction, including Jones (1724) and Nesfield (1898) employ I am loving as a model. Nesfield (1898), employ I am loving as a model. While some kept condemning the example, other linguistic accounts kept treating the construction as aspect-neutral. Characterizing the core function of the form as a confiner of the speaker's attendtion best describes its variety of its behavior and related phenomena.

Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research

  • 認知言語学から見た進行形の制限に関する通時的・共時的研究

    Grant number：25370555  2013.04 - 2017.03   基盤研究(C)

  • Historical-Cognitive Study on the English V-ing form

    Grant number：21520510  2009.04 - 2013.03   Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research(C)

  • Study on how the English tense and the English Present Perfect

    Grant number：18520384  2006.04 - 2009.03   Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research(C)

  • A Research on the Semantic Mechanism on the English present perfect wuth a Special Respect to the Synchronic and Diachronic Environment of European Present Perfects.

    Grant number：15520313  2003.04 - 2006.03   Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research(C)

Award for Educational Activities

  • Lecturers of the Year

    情報工学部FD委員会   2005.04.01

Activities of Academic societies and Committees

  • The Japanese Cognitive Linguistics Association  

    2023.08 - 2023.11

  • The Japanese Cognitive Linguistics Association   Administrative Board Member,Chair  

    2000.04 - 2011.09

  • The Japanese Cognitive Linguistics Association  

    2014.09

  • The Japanese Association for Studies in the History of the English Language   Chair of one of the Lectures  

    2012.04

  • The Japanese Cognitive Linguistics Association  

    2009.09

  • The English Linguistic Society of Japan  

    2007.04

  • The Japanese Cognitive Linguistics Association  

    1999.04 - 2000.03

  • The Japanese Cognitive Linguistics Association  

    1999.04

  • Fukuoka Cognitive Linguistics Association   Administrative Board Member  

    1998.08

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