Preliminary Studies Towards Systematizing the Teaching of Japanese as a Foreign Language

本研究项目的主要目标是：(1)为外国学习者构建可理解的日语语法；(2)编制计算机化的现代日语书面语数据库，以产生可能的句法类型和搭配模式；(3)建立日语基本谓词的激活型词典。至于理论研究的第一个目标，基于格标记对齐的语法被发现特别有用和实用，因为它直接结合了句法结构和实际使用。在这方面，我们采取了两个步骤：一是列举当前使用的格模式，二是从理论上说明如何将数量减少到语法描述和勒纳词典中的几种基本类型。然而，由于OCR的效率低下，建立一个数据库涉及到意想不到的人工编辑工作，将大约8000页印刷页面电脑化是我们所能做到的最大限度，令人担忧的是，电子文本和搜索工具的市场版本的迅速增加在某种程度上削弱了我们数据库的公共用途。

Main objectives of this research project have been(1) to construct asensible grammar of Japanese for foreign learners,(2) to compile acomputerized database of present-day written Japanese large enough to yield possible syntactic types and collocational patterns, and(3) to put together an activator-type lexicon of basic Japanese predicates.As to the first objective of theorizing, a grammar based on case-marker alignment has been found particularly useful and practical as directly combining syntactic structures and actual usage. Two ps have been taken in this respect : first to enumerate currently used case patterns, and then to give theoretical grounds for reducing the number to several types fundamental both for grammatical description and lerner's dictionary. Building up a database, however, involved unexpected amount of manual editing owing to the inefficiency of the OCR,and computerizing some eight thousand printed pages was the utmost we could achieve, and it is to be feared that the rapid increase in market versions of electronic texts and search tools somewht detracted from the public utility of our database.