A comprehensive study of event expressions in terms of the comparison between Chinese and Japanese

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This research has achieved the following important results, accord to our original research objectives : (1) we discovered new linguistic facts concerning the description of event expressions, (2) we constructed a theory of stative events and the comparative syntax between Chinese and Japanese causatives, (3) we carried out some psychological experiments about event expressions and published some papers, (4) We applied our theory to the development of the corpus study of events and created the data base system of 40 Chinese dialects, (5) we held research meetings about event expressions twelve times, (6) we held international conferences twice in order to publish the conference proceedings and to facilitate the academic interactions among linguists in China and Japan, (7) we already published one proceedings of the international conference held in China and we are now planning to publish four volumes of books concerning the descriptive and theoretical studies of the structure and interpretation of events. For more detailed information, see below.Finally, on the basis of the above achievements, we are convinced that we can promote exchange of various ideas with linguists in China, which enables us to start a new research project together.