| Budget Amount *help |
¥2,470,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,900,000、Indirect Cost: ¥570,000)
Fiscal Year 2016: ¥1,170,000 (Direct Cost: ¥900,000、Indirect Cost: ¥270,000)
Fiscal Year 2015: ¥1,300,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,000,000、Indirect Cost: ¥300,000)
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| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
In this study we built a database of word structures in Japanese, which will be a basis for investigating how speakers' linguistic experience relates to their knowledge on morphology (i.e. word-internal structures). With a database of word formation contains information that, for example, the word "manekineko" consists of the verb "maneku" (to invite) and the noun "neko" (cat). Despite of the potential usefulness of such a database in a wide range of research topics, Japanese has not have one, except those for specific categories such as compound verbs. A web-based search interface was also built for this database. With this interface, one can easily search for, for example, all instances of compound nouns that are made of a noun followed by a verb, such as "hamigaki" ("ha" (tooth) + "migaku" (to brush), "tooth brushing").
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