A Computer-assited Comparative-cum-Contrastive Study of South Asian Languages

在1995年的最后一年中，(1)将孟加拉语、印地语、马拉提语、梵语、卡纳达语、马来亚语、塔米语和泰卢固语等每种研究语言的1-200万字的新语言数据输入计算机。(2)通过将输入的语法信息与新的语言数据进行匹配，极大地提高了8本机器可读词典的准确率。(3)注册词条的数量增加到10,000个，每个单词的语义描述得到纠正。(4)Parser，通过对CIIL和ILCAA的互访，印度和日本的联合研究人员举行了3-4次会议，解决了他们在研究过程中遇到的一些难题。(6)利用计算机对数据库中的各种语言数据进行了分析，以进行8种印度语言和日语的对比研究。由于上述工作取得了一些新的发现，但也出现了一些新的问题，有待于以后的进一步研究解决。[2]现在，人们可以很容易地获得对比语言数据，从而找到两个不同语系之间的词汇或语法借用关系。[3]通过对印度雅利安语言和日语的语法对比研究，人们发现，在动词变化形式中，除了“进行体/不完成体”之外，识别“静态”体更好。日语：静态(-te-ir-)，进行式(-te-ar-)；孟加拉语：静态(-e-ach-)，进行式(-ch-)。

During the final year 1995 the following works were done under the project concerne(1) Into computer were put new language data comprising of 1-2 million words of each research language -i.e.Bengali, Hindi, Marathi, Sanskrit, Kannada, Malayalam, Tami and Telugu.(2) Accuracy of 8 Machine Readable Dictionaries was very much improved through matching tes of the input grammatical information with the new language data.(3) The number of registered lemma was increased upto 10,000 and semantic description of each vocable was rectified.(4) Parser, tagging and segmentation programs were tested for their improvement.(5) Through mutual visits to CIIL and ILCAA Indian and Japanese joint researchers met together 3-4 times to find the solution of some difficult problems emerged in the process of their research activities.(6) Varions language data retrieved from the database with the help of computer were analyze for the purpose of comparative-cum-contrastive studies of 8 Indian languages with Japanese. As a result of the above-mentioned works some new findings were obtained.But some new problems also emerged to be solved later by further research.[1] One can now easily find phonological, morphological and semantic agreements or disagreements among the same language family - i.e. Indo-Aryan or Dravidian to get essential information for comparative linguistic study.[2] One can now easily get contrastive linguistic data to find lexical or grammatical borrowing relationship between the two different language families-i.e.Indo-Aryan and Dravidian.[3] Through grammatical contrastive studies between Indo-Aryan language and Japanese it was found better to recognize "Stative" aspect besides "progresive/imperfective" aspect in the verbal conjugational form-e.g. Japanese : Stative (-te-ir-), progressive (-te-ar-) ; Bengali : stative (-e-ach-), Progressive (-ch-).