Computer-Assisted Study of Early Modern English

Hideki Watanabe与其他项目成员以及他在英国和丹麦访问的学者合作，研究了在授权版本的圣经中只出现过一次的“当世界屹立不倒”的表达方式。在圣经的各种英文译本和其他译本中，人们对这个表达进行了广泛的搜索。得出的结论是，这种表达在许多日耳曼语中都可以追溯到。渡边还对《牛津英语词典》光盘进行了语料库语言学研究，获得了许多统计表，表明了其中语言学家和语言学家的引文与英语研究史之间的关系。所有这些研究都已经发表在下面列出的文章中。Arne Zettersten与赫尔辛基的学者合作，负责所谓的赫尔辛基语料库，以及他与一些日本学者的讨论以及实际的计算机工作，调查了使用赫尔辛基语料库和其他语料库研究eMode词汇和发音的用处和局限性。他还在美国对早期美国散文材料进行了比较研究，以确定从书面材料发音。此外，他在过去两年中对文本语言学和EETs(Zettersten-Diensberg，即将出版)的贡献也对本课题有用。Mitsunori Imai与该项目的所有成员以及他访问的英国、芬兰和丹麦的学者合作，研究了句子首位状语不定式的功能。在赫尔辛基语料库的电子模式部分和其他伊丽莎白时代的文本中进行了试点搜索。从研究结果来看，“状语不定式的读者导向作用”(巴克伦德，)似乎并不像在现代英语中那样在任何语类中都能明显地观察到。

Hideki Watanabe, in cooperation with the other project members and the scholars he visited in England and Denmark, has investigated the expression 'while the world standeth', which appears only once in the Authorized Version of the Bible. An extensive search for the expression was made throughout the various English and other translations of the Bible. The conclusion reached is that the expression is traceable in many Germanic languages. Watanabe has also made a corpus linguistic research into the OED on CD-ROM and obtained many lists of statistics indicating the relations between the quotations therein from the philologists and linguists and the history of English studies. All of these studies have already been published in the articles listed below.Arne Zettersten, in cooperation with the scholars in Helsinki who are responsible for the so-called Helsinki Corpus, and a number of scholars in Japan whom he met for discussion as well as for actual computer work, has investigated the usefulness and the limitations of using the Helsinki and other corpora for the study of EModE vocabulary and pronunciation. He also made a comparative study in the U.S.of early American prose material for establishing pronuciation from written material. Furthermore, his contribution during the past two years to text philology and the EETS (Zettersten-Diensberg, forthcoming) has also been useful for the present prroject.Mitsunori Imai, in cooperation with all the members of the project and the scholars he visited in England, Finland, and Denmark, has investigated the function of the sentenceinitial adverbial infinitive. A pilot search was made in the EModE section of the Helsinki Corpus and other Elizabethan texts. From the result obtained it seems that the "readeroriented role of the initial adverbial infinitives" (Backlund, 1989) is not so clearly observable in any genre of the investigated material as in Moderm English.