Universality of Constraint-based Phrase Structure Grammars

1994年8月，首席调查员和一些调查员访问了斯坦福大学，为期约一周，并与美国政府官员进行了一系列讨论。日本方面介绍了他们以前的研究基于约束为基础的形式主义，而美国方面介绍了他们的最新研究活动。弗利金杰预计将在第二年参加我们的项目，他介绍了Verbmobil项目，该项目试图与德国研究人员合作建立一个大型的工作英语语法。12月，我们邀请了三名美国研究人员到日本，并在京都举行了几天的封闭研讨会。1995年2月和3月，所有日本调查人员再次访问了斯坦福大学，1995年7月至9月，日本研究人员访问了斯坦福大学，与美国研究人员进行了一系列的讨论。在某种程度上是重要的。双方对日语使役结构的研究方法虽有明显的不同，但却有许多共同之处.其他复杂谓词的研究也与上述研究密切相关.一些与词汇相关的研究也有许多共同点.双方对否定的研究也是密切相关的，12月，美国研究人员全部访问了日本，我们在东京进行了几天半封闭的研讨会。1996年3月，日本研究人员再次访问了斯坦福大学，对两年来的研究工作进行了总结，并讨论了以其他形式继续研究的可能性。

1994In August, the head investigator and some of the investigators visited Stanford University for about a week and had a series of discussions with the U.S.investigators. The Japanese side presented their previous studies on Japanese based on constraint-based formalisms, while the American side presented their latest research activitiesDr. Flickinger, who was expected to participate in our project in the following year, described the Verbmobil project, which attempts to build a large working English grammar with the collaboration of German researchers.In December, we invited three American investigators to Japan and had a closed workshop in Kyoto for a few days. All the Japanese investigators visited Stanford University again in February and March in 1995, where we concluded the research in the first year and discussed how to extend the research in the second year.1995Most of the Japanese investigators visited Stanford University from July so September and had a series of discussion with the American investigators.The following facts were noted as either common aspects on both sides or significant in some way.1. The apparent different approaches to the Japanese causative construction on both sides indeed have much in common.2. The research on other complex predicates were also closely related to the above mentioned researches.3. Some researches related to lexicon also had many common aspects.4. Researches on negation on both sides were also closely related to one another.In December, all the American investigators visited Japan, and we had a semi-closed workshop in Tokyo for a few days. The papers presented in this workshop were later collected in proceedings, which were published and distributed in March, 1996.Finally, some of the Japanese investigators visited Stanford University again in February and March to conclude the past two years of research and discuss possible continuation of the research in other forms.