Theoretical and empirical studies of case and word order of ditransitive verbs in German and Japanese

1)从德语和日语文本中提取含有“给”等三处动词的句子，并对其大小写和语序模式进行分类。动词类的基本语序是“主格和格”和一个“主格和格”；2)除了基本的语序外，还考虑了两种派生模式：名词短语的移动和不规则语序的基本构成。3)对语义和语用因素(有生命条件、短语大小、焦点等)进行了分析。4)与一些研究人员(E.Koenig教授、G.Fanselow教授等)就德语和日语的语序分析交换了意见，并与他们讨论了未来的研究项目。5)我发表了几篇论文，如《从最简的角度看德语和日语的争鸣》(《语言学分析》30)，并作了以下演讲：(I)《日语和德语中双及物动词的论元结构》(付柏林国际研讨会《日语和德语中配价的扩展和降低》，2002年，柏林)；(Ii)德语语序的参数设置(《寻找德语的参数》研讨会，日本德国文学与语言学学会2002年春季会议，Dokkyo大学)。

1) I extracted the sentences which contain three-place verbs such as "geben(=give)" from German and Japanese texts, and then classified their case and word order patterns. Verb classes which take the basic word order "nominative > accusative > dative" and the one "nominative > dative > accusative" were distinguished in both languages.2) Besides the basic word order, two derived patterns are considered: movement of the noun phrases and base formation of "irregular" word orders.3) Furthermore, semantic and pragmatic factors were analyzed (animacy condition, phrase size, focus etc.).4) I exchanged views on the word order analysis of German and Japanese with some researchers (Prof. E. Koenig, Prof. G. Fanselow etc.), and discussed about future research projects with them.5) I published several papers such as "Scrambling in German and Japanese from a Minimalist Point of View" (Linguistic Analysis 30), and gave the following talks (i) "Argument Structure of Ditransitive Verbs in Japanese and German" (FU Berlin international workshop "Expansion and Reduction of Valency in Japanese and German, 2002, Berlin", ( ii ) On the Parameter setting of German Word Order (Symposium "In search of the parameters of German", spring meeting of Japan Society for German Literature and Linguistics, 2002, Dokkyo University).