A comprehensive study of event expressions in terms of the comparison between Chinese and Japanese

本研究取得了以下重要成果：(1)发现了描述事件表达的新的语言学事实；(2)构建了静态事件理论和汉日使役句法对比；(3)对事件表达进行了心理学实验，并发表了一些论文；(4)将该理论应用于事件语料库研究的发展，建立了40个汉语方言的数据库系统；(5)召开了12次事件表达研究会议，(6)我们举办了两次国际会议，以发表会议记录，促进中国和日本语言学家之间的学术交流。(7)我们已经出版了一次在中国举行的国际会议记录，目前计划出版四卷本关于事件结构和解释的描述性和理论研究的书籍。最后，在上述成果的基础上，我们相信可以促进与中国语言学家的各种思想的交流，从而使我们能够共同启动一个新的研究项目。

This research has achieved the following important results, accord to our original research objectives : (1) we discovered new linguistic facts concerning the description of event expressions, (2) we constructed a theory of stative events and the comparative syntax between Chinese and Japanese causatives, (3) we carried out some psychological experiments about event expressions and published some papers, (4) We applied our theory to the development of the corpus study of events and created the data base system of 40 Chinese dialects, (5) we held research meetings about event expressions twelve times, (6) we held international conferences twice in order to publish the conference proceedings and to facilitate the academic interactions among linguists in China and Japan, (7) we already published one proceedings of the international conference held in China and we are now planning to publish four volumes of books concerning the descriptive and theoretical studies of the structure and interpretation of events. For more detailed information, see below.Finally, on the basis of the above achievements, we are convinced that we can promote exchange of various ideas with linguists in China, which enables us to start a new research project together.