A Typological Study of the Influence of Language Contact on Lexico-Grammatical Structures : A Contrastive Study of Japanese, Korean, and Vietnamese

本研究的主要研究成果包括：(1)日语和韩语的语法化模式：两种语言属于同一形态类型（粘合语言），语法化模式具有相似性。然而，在更仔细的观察下，两种语言表现出微妙的差异（Horie 2003, Ishihara, Horie, and Pardeshi, in press）。(2)日语、韩语和越南语中的多功能性现象：多功能性是东亚和东南亚语言中普遍存在的现象（Yap, Matthews, and Horie 2004）。日语、韩语和越南语普遍表现出及物标记的语法化现象，这种现象表现出多功能性，并受到上下文不同解释的影响（Horie和Murakami，出版中）。(3)日语语法化结构中的主体化现象：日语在语法化结构中表现出一种被称为“主体化”的语义语用变化（Traugott 2003） （Horie and Shimura 2003, Horie and Kondo 2004）。

The major research findings gained through this study include the following :(1)Grammaticalization patterns between Japanese and Korean :Both languages belong to the same morphological type (agglutinating languages) and grammaticalization patterns exhibit similarities. However, under closer scrutiny, the two languages exhibit subtle differences (Horie 2003, Ishihara, Horie, and Pardeshi, in press).(2)Polyfunctionality phenomena observed in Japanese, Korean, and Vietnamese :Polyfunctionality is a commonly observed phenomenon in East and South East Asian languages (Yap, Matthews, and Horie 2004). Japanese, Korean, and Vietnamese commonly manifest a grammaticalization phenomenon of transitive marking, which shows polyfunctionality and is subject to varying interpretations contextually (Horie and Murakami, in press).(3)Subjectification phenomena in the grammaticalized constructions in Japanese :Japanese exhibits a semantic-pragmatic change known as "subjectification" (Traugott 2003) in its grammaticalized constructions (Horie and Shimura 2003, Horie and Kondo 2004).