A Contrastive Study on Spatiotemporal Cognition in Japanese and Korean Texts

取得了以下研究成果：(1)文本数据的电子语料库建设：从日语和朝鲜语的原始文本数据中，以计算机文本文件的形式建立基本语料库。(2)时体表达集合：从基本语料库中提取包含语境信息的时体表达。(3)时间指示语和回指表达的观察：根据语境信息进行系统的分类，特别是空间副词和充当时间指示语和回指的动词。(4)数据库的形成：快速的排序/搜索很容易找到合适的样本表达式及其上下文信息。(5)讨论：研究人员利用互联网和邮件列表与其他机构的其他研究人员进行了频繁的讨论，刺激和加强了我们目前的研究项目。(5)研究成果展示：我们经常参加国内外学术会议并发表论文，建立了日韩文本数据的电子语料库，收集了时空表达。利用两种语言在句法上的相似性，我们将注意力集中在两种语言在使用时/体后缀方面的认知或语义域上的差异。通过日语和韩语语料的异同，我们在一定程度上成功地看到了时空认知的系统性。

We have obtained the following research results : (1) Electronic corpus construction for text data : the basic corpus was created in the form of computer text files from the raw text data of written Japanese and Korean. (2) Collection of tense/aspect expressions : tense/aspect expressions including the context information were ectracted from the basic corpus. (3) Observations on the temporal-deictic and anaphoric expressions : systematic classification was done according to contextual information with special attention to spatial adverbs and verbs functioning as temporal deixis and anaphora. (4) Formation of a database : speedy sort/search is easy for finding appropriate sample expressions with their context information. (5) Discussions : the investigators had frequnt discussions with other researchers in other institutions, utilizing the Internet and mailing lists, which stimulated and enhanced our present research project. (5) Presentations of research results : we frequently attended domestic and international academic conferences and presented our papers.We created an electronic corpus for Japanese/Korean text data, and collected spatial/temporal expressions. By making use of the syntactic similarities of the two languages, we focused our attention on the differences in the cognitive or semantic domain the respective languages cover in the use of tense/aspectual suffixes. Through similarities and differences in Japanese and Korean linguistic data, we have partly succeeded in viewing the systematic nature of spatiotemporal cognition.