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ＮＡＳＡの英語： evidenceに冠詞がない理由
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私は、初出云々に関係なく、限定修飾されているものにはtheが付くのが一般的でつかない場合にはそれなりの理由があると思います。これは可算名詞・不可算名詞に関係ないと思います。the を付けるかつけないかは書き手・話し手の「感覚・判断等」による場合があるかも知れませんが、それで一応の法則(文法)はあり、限定修飾の場合には初出であろうがなかろうが、付けるのが一般的だと私は考えています。付けない場合は何らかの理由があり、それは例えば、先に述べたように書き手にとっても、聞き手にとっても書いている時点では、明確でなく、具体性がなく、theをつけてまで特定したくないような場合でしょう(ネット文e参照)。以下のネット例参照。 a) Twelfth Night By Shakespeare(www.wowessays.comから) In the play Twelfth Night Shakespeare shows how anyone can be blinded by love and act so impulsively to satisfy their appetite for love, that often they fall in love with a façade rather then the person behind the disguise. Also Shakespeare also shows how people are apt to ignore the evidence that disproves the disguise they have fallen in love with. (頭からの全文です。evidenceが初出にも関わらずtheが付いています。) b) "Responsibility for the Terrorist Atrocities in the United States, 11 September 2001" (www.number-10.gov.uk/news より) 10 Downing Street has posted a sixteen-page document reviewing the evidence that points to Usama Bin Laden as the agent of the September 11, 2001 attacks on the United States. (これも頭からで、evidenceは初出です) c)Leonardo da Vinci: the incurable polymath September 1, 1999 by Diana Renelli (veg.caより) The evidence that points to da Vinci's humane nature is also contrasted by the military machines and weapons that he engineered for his Milanese patron, Duke Ludovico. (これもevidenceが使われているのはこれ一回です) d) The Dynamic Duo (goldnews.bullionvault.comより) We're not going to spend any time reciting all the evidence that points to more woes in the US housing market. (ここでもevidenceが使われているのこの文だけです) e) It's one thing to ask, "What's the basis for that conclusion?" But you don't want to be sending the signal "I want you to find evidence that points to the opposite conclusion." (yalealumnimagazine.comより) (この時点ではこのevidenceには全く具体性がなく、単に反対の結論を示す証という漠然のものであるから書き手はtheをつけていない)(yalealumnimagazine.comより) 参考までに
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