Studies in Word Grammar

该项目是一项为期三年(2002年4月至2005年3月)的英日联合词汇语法研究及其在日语和其他语言分析中的应用。其目的是汇集英国和日本的单词语法语言学家的研究成果，他们的研究一直在这个框架下进行，但他们的方法反映了对单词语法的不同观点(以下简称WG)。这项研究主要由杉山健世(日本)完成，他在英国的研究伙伴包括Richard Hudson教授(伦敦大学学院)、Jasper Holmes博士(伦敦大学学院)、Andrew Rosta博士(中央兰开夏大学)、Nik Gisborne博士(爱丁堡大学)和John Payne教授(曼彻斯特大学)。我们在研究中明确的是，这一理论在解释日语独特的句法特征方面远远好于其他任何现有的语言学理论。按照计划，我们每年至少在伦敦伦敦大学学院举办一次为期两周的研讨会，讨论每个参与者的研究进展，并将他们的研究成果汇总在一起。这笔赠款用于杉山贤世前往伦敦的旅行，以及在研究期间计划的三个研讨会期间的住宿和生活费。研究成果在欧洲和其他地区的语言学会议上口头发表，包括欧洲语言学会、欧洲日语研究协会、东南亚语言学学会，以及2004年由韩国英语语言学学会主办的国际英语语言学会议。研究结果将于2005年下半年由伦敦Continuum出版公司发表，以向人们介绍这一理论，并表明该理论适用于包括英语和日语在内的各种语言的句法和语义分析。它的部分资金来自日本科学促进会的赠款。

The project carried out is a three-year (April 2002 - March 2005) joint Anglo-Japanese research on Word Grammar and its application to the analysis of Japanese and other languages. The goal is to bring together the research results of Word Grammar linguists in the UK and Japan whose research has been conducted in this framework but whose approaches to it reflect differing perspectives on Word Grammar (henceforth WG). The research was done mainly by Kensei Sugayama (Japan) with assistance of his research associates in the UK including Prof.Richard Hudson (UCL), Dr Jasper Holmes (UCL), Dr Andrew Rosta (University of Central Lancashire), Dr Nik Gisborne (University of Edinburgh) and Prof. John Payne (University of Manchester). What we made clear in the research is that this theory is far better than any other current linguistic theory in explaining unique syntactic features of Japanese not seen in European languages.As planned, we held a two-week workshop in UCL, London at least once a year to discuss progresses in each participant's research and put together their research results. The grants covered Kensei Sugayama's trips to London and accommodation and living expenses during the three workshops planned during the duration of the research. The research results were presented orally at linguistic meetings in Europe and elsewhere including The Societas Linguistica Europaea, The European Association for Studies of Japanese, the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society, and the 2004 International Conference on English Linguistics hosted by the English Linguistics Society of Korea.The result of the research is to be published in later 2005 by Continuum Publishing in London so as to introduce the people into this theory and to show that this theory is applicable to various languages including English and Japanese in their syntactic and semantic analysis. It is partly supported by the grants from the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science.