Theoretical and empirical studies of case and word order of ditransitive verbs in German and Japanese

1)本文从德语和日语文本中提取了“给”等三位动词的句子，并对其格和语序模式进行了分类。2）除基本语序外，还考虑了两种派生模式：名词短语的移动和“不规则”语序的基本构成; 3）进一步分析了语义和语用因素（生命条件、短语大小、焦点等）。4)我和一些研究者（E。Koenig，G. Fanselow等），并与他们讨论了未来的研究项目。5）我发表了几篇论文，如“从最低限度的观点看德语和日语的竞争”（语言学分析30），并作了以下演讲：（i）“日德双及物动词的论元结构”（FU柏林国际研讨会“日语和德语中原子价的扩展和减少，2002年，柏林”，（二）关于德语词序的参数设置（专题讨论会“寻找德语的参数”，日本德语文学和语言学学会春季会议，2002年，独协大学）。

1) I extracted the sentences which contain three-place verbs such as "geben(=give)" from German and Japanese texts, and then classified their case and word order patterns. Verb classes which take the basic word order "nominative > accusative > dative" and the one "nominative > dative > accusative" were distinguished in both languages.2) Besides the basic word order, two derived patterns are considered: movement of the noun phrases and base formation of "irregular" word orders.3) Furthermore, semantic and pragmatic factors were analyzed (animacy condition, phrase size, focus etc.).4) I exchanged views on the word order analysis of German and Japanese with some researchers (Prof. E. Koenig, Prof. G. Fanselow etc.), and discussed about future research projects with them.5) I published several papers such as "Scrambling in German and Japanese from a Minimalist Point of View" (Linguistic Analysis 30), and gave the following talks (i) "Argument Structure of Ditransitive Verbs in Japanese and German" (FU Berlin international workshop "Expansion and Reduction of Valency in Japanese and German, 2002, Berlin", ( ii ) On the Parameter setting of German Word Order (Symposium "In search of the parameters of German", spring meeting of Japan Society for German Literature and Linguistics, 2002, Dokkyo University).