@article{oai:muroran-it.repo.nii.ac.jp:00008241, author = {松名, 隆 and MATSUNA, Takashi}, journal = {室蘭工業大学研究報告. 文科編, Memoirs of the Muroran Institute of Technology. Cultural science}, month = {Nov}, note = {application/pdf, So far there have proposed so many definitions of the sentence as a grammatical unit. Traditionally,except such grammarians as Jespersen,it was defined mainly in terms of its meaning content,such as complete meaning or complete thought,or its logical content,such as a combination of a logical subject and a logical predicate However,these content-based definitions were rejected mainly by structuralists because of the lack of objectiveness. These structuralistic approaches try to define the sentence in terms of its distributional independence or by way of phonological criteria. In this paper,the author shows that these 'objective' approaches cannot wholly define the sentence as is induced from utterances,and then examines the three conditions of the sentence proposed by Motoki Tokieda. Then,in the final analysis,it is showed that these conditions do not recognize the sentence wholly and structurally in a cognitive sense,and,as a conclusion,the author's tentative cognitive definition of the sentence is proposed: the sentence is one or a set of unified consruct(s) synthesized by the speaker's overall recognition of this (these) construct(s).}, pages = {111--132}, title = {文法単位としての文について}, volume = {46}, year = {1996}, yomi = {マツナ, タカシ} }