Preliminary Studies Towards Systematizing the Teaching of Japanese as a Foreign Language

本研究的主要目的是：（1）为外国学习者建立一个合理的日语语法，（2）编制一个足够大的现代日语书面语计算机数据库，以产生可能的句法类型和搭配模式，（3）汇集一个基本日语谓词的激活型词典。已经发现基于格-标记对齐的语法在直接组合句法结构和实际用法时特别有用和实用。在这方面采取了两个ps：首先列举目前使用的情况下模式，然后给出理论依据，减少到几种类型的基本语法描述和勒纳的字典。然而，建立一个数据库，由于OCR的效率低下，涉及到意想不到的手工编辑量，而计算机化大约8000页的印刷页是我们所能达到的最大限度，恐怕电子文本和搜索工具的市场版本的快速增长在某种程度上妨碍了我们数据库的公共用途。

Main objectives of this research project have been(1) to construct asensible grammar of Japanese for foreign learners,(2) to compile acomputerized database of present-day written Japanese large enough to yield possible syntactic types and collocational patterns, and(3) to put together an activator-type lexicon of basic Japanese predicates.As to the first objective of theorizing, a grammar based on case-marker alignment has been found particularly useful and practical as directly combining syntactic structures and actual usage. Two ps have been taken in this respect : first to enumerate currently used case patterns, and then to give theoretical grounds for reducing the number to several types fundamental both for grammatical description and lerner's dictionary. Building up a database, however, involved unexpected amount of manual editing owing to the inefficiency of the OCR,and computerizing some eight thousand printed pages was the utmost we could achieve, and it is to be feared that the rapid increase in market versions of electronic texts and search tools somewht detracted from the public utility of our database.