A Contrastive Study on Spatiotemporal Cognition in Japanese and Korean Texts

本文取得了以下研究成果：(1)文本数据的电子语料库构建：以日语和韩语书面原始文本数据为基础，以计算机文本文件的形式创建基本语料库。(2)时态/方面表达的收集：从基本语料库中提取包含上下文信息的时态/方面表达。(3)对时间指示语和回指语的观察：根据语境信息进行了系统的分类，特别注意空间副词和动词作为时间指示语和回指语。(4)数据库的形成：快速排序/搜索容易找到合适的样本表达式及其上下文信息。(5)讨论：研究人员利用互联网和邮件列表与其他机构的其他研究人员进行了频繁的讨论，从而激发和加强了我们目前的研究项目。(5)研究成果展示：我们经常参加国内外学术会议并发表论文。我们为日语/韩语文本数据创建了一个电子语料库，并收集了空间/时间表达式。通过两种语言的句法相似性，我们将注意力集中在两种语言在使用时态/体形后缀时所涵盖的认知或语义领域的差异上。通过日语和韩语语言数据的异同，我们在一定程度上成功地观察了时空认知的系统本质。

We have obtained the following research results : (1) Electronic corpus construction for text data : the basic corpus was created in the form of computer text files from the raw text data of written Japanese and Korean. (2) Collection of tense/aspect expressions : tense/aspect expressions including the context information were ectracted from the basic corpus. (3) Observations on the temporal-deictic and anaphoric expressions : systematic classification was done according to contextual information with special attention to spatial adverbs and verbs functioning as temporal deixis and anaphora. (4) Formation of a database : speedy sort/search is easy for finding appropriate sample expressions with their context information. (5) Discussions : the investigators had frequnt discussions with other researchers in other institutions, utilizing the Internet and mailing lists, which stimulated and enhanced our present research project. (5) Presentations of research results : we frequently attended domestic and international academic conferences and presented our papers.We created an electronic corpus for Japanese/Korean text data, and collected spatial/temporal expressions. By making use of the syntactic similarities of the two languages, we focused our attention on the differences in the cognitive or semantic domain the respective languages cover in the use of tense/aspectual suffixes. Through similarities and differences in Japanese and Korean linguistic data, we have partly succeeded in viewing the systematic nature of spatiotemporal cognition.