Corpus linguistic study of the Japanese language: development of new research areas and inquiry into related issues

1.概述本研究项目的主要成果包括（i）基于日语的大型电子语料库的日语方面的分析，（ii）关于日语语料库语言学研究的一般问题的探讨.出版物中心发表的研究成果包括（a）一篇论文，其中“情态”的概念在日语语法研究的批判性审查，和（B）一篇论文，其中的一些基本问题的系动词结构进行了详细的分析。这两篇论文都使用了从大规模语料库中获得的语言信息，以最大限度地进行语法分析和描述。同时发表的还有（c）一篇论文，其中审查了语言研究中的边缘和例外问题，随着语料库规模的增长，这一问题变得越来越重要。2006年3月，在东京举行的小组讨论会上就语料库问题进行了演讲，在日本语研究所的语料库项目会议上进行了4次演讲，并在北京日本研究中心等中国的几所大学进行了演讲。

1. OverviewThe main results of this research project consist of (i) analyses of aspects of Japanese based on large electronic corpora of the language, and (ii) inquiries into general issues concerning the corpus-linguistic study of Japanese.2. PublicationsThe central published research results include (a) a paper in which the concept of 'modality' in studies of Japanese grammar was critically examined, and (b) a paper in which some of the fundamental issues of the copula construction were analyzed in detail. In both papers, linguistic information obtained from large size corpora was used to make grammatical analysis and description maximally precise. Also pubilshed was (c) a paper in which the issue of periphery and exceptions in linguistic research, which becomes more and more important as the size of corpora grows, was examined.3. Oral presentations, etc.The head investigator gave a talk about issues involving corpora at a panel discussion, held in Tokyo in March, 2006, made four presentations at meetings of the corpus project of the Institute for Japanese Language Research, and made lectures at several universties in China, including the Beijing Center for Japanese Studies.