Grammar and Knowledge ---Basic Studies on the Interfaces for German Grammar and cognitive knowledge.

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With the aid of this scientific research grant, we were able to carry out an extensive research aiming at finding conditions on the interface between grammar and cognitive knowledge. The research team comprises two groups : one engaging in linguistic theories (Fushimi, Hosaka, Ishida, Nakagawa) and the other in knowledge-based investigation (Fukumoto, Ogino, Koda, Okamoto, Shigeto). The first group extended their grammatical framework into the integration of cognitive knowledge, while the latter clarified various factors for the grammatical theory. Our investigation led us to believe that there are at least three ways to capture the interface between grammatical theory and cognitive knowledge ; (1)formal grammatical theory such as generative grammar should offer appropriate slots for cognitive knowledge, which was so far regarded as "exception", (2)corpus-oriented data can best be utilized in an appropriate mashine-readable format, i.e. XML ; (3) cognitive knowlege should be made explicit from various perspectives, such as historical studies of language, cultural aspects of language, interpretation of literal works, etc. Hosaka's and Fushimi's contribution in generative grammar falls within (1) ; Ishida's attempt shows parsing possibility in terms of XML in the field of (2) ; Okamoto's papers are concerned with the interface between regularity and irregularity in treating particle-verbs from the viewpoint of (3), to name just a few. Apart from individual investigation, we hosted two lectures ; Professor G.Grewendorf (University of Frankfurt) on "Binding" in 2002 and U.Sauerland (MIT) on "Agreement Licensing" in 2003. Papers by the members of this project were published in many periodicals of academic societies, not to mention read at equally many conferences. Nakagawa, Ogino, Fukumoto and Okamoto were able to collect research materials in various parts of Germany.