A Stylistic Study on the Language of William Caxton

本项目的目的是详细描述威廉·卡克斯顿的语言特点。为了进行文体研究，我们考虑了原著的影响。我们准备了计算机可读的卡克斯顿语料库，并制作了对阅读他的作品非常有用的词汇表的一部分。我们有许多关于中世纪晚期和早期现代英语的语言研究，如杰弗里·乔叟和威廉·莎士比亚：但关于15世纪英语的研究很少，尽管卡克斯顿的语言在研究英语标准化方面非常重要。因此，我们的项目对日本中世纪研究的发展做出了很大的贡献。我们有几次机会在阅读和写作论文时向学术团体展示我们的发现，特别是关于雷纳德狐狸的历史、巴黎和维也纳以及伊索的历史。

The purpose of this project is to describe in detail the linguistic features of William Caxton. In order to make a stylistic study, we took the influence of the original works into consideration. We prepared the computer-readable corpora of Caxton, and made a part of the glossary which is very useful in reading his works.We have many studies on the language of Late Middle and Early Modern English e.g. Geoffrey Chaucer and William Shakespeare: but little on the fifteenth century English, although Caxton's language is so important in studying the standardization of English. So our project contributed very much to the development of the Medieval study in Japan.We had several chances to show our findings to the academic societies in both reading and writing papers, with special reference to The History of the Reynard the Fox, Paris and Vienne, and Aesop.