A PARAMETRIC APPROACH TO SYNTACTIC AND PRAGMATIC COMPARISON OF JAPANESE,KOREAN AND ENGLISH

本研究的目的是寻找与语言之间的句法和语用差异有关的参数。我们认为，通过研究同一类型组中语言之间的差异，并将它们与类型学上相距较远的语言进行比较，可以最好地实现这一点。我们选择了日语和韩语作为前者的语言，并将观察到的变化与英语中的相应现象进行了比较。我们研究的句法和语用现象如下：1.格位分配系统2.名词短语的内部结构3.代词回指系统4.指示代词和人称代词5.话语标记语6.条件句我们已经证明了上述现象的相互联系，从而表明了用一小部分参数设置的差异来解释所涉及的语言变化的可能性。

The aim of the present research project is to find parameters involved in syntactic and pragmatic variations among languages. It is our claim that this can be best achieved by studying language variations among languages in the same typological group and comparing them with typologically distant languages. We have chosen Japanese and Korean as languages belonging to the former and compared the variations observed with the corresponding phenomena in English, a language typologically distant from the two languages.The syntacitic and pragmatic phenomena we studied are the following: 1. Case assignment system 2. Internal structure of noun phrases 3. system of pronominal anaphora 4. demonstratives and personal pronouns 5. discourse markers 6. conditionals We have shown the inter-relatedness of the phenomena listed above, thereby suggesting the possibility of explaining the language variations involved in terms of the difference in the setting of a small set of parameters.