| Budget Amount *help |
¥4,420,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,400,000、Indirect Cost: ¥1,020,000)
Fiscal Year 2010: ¥1,040,000 (Direct Cost: ¥800,000、Indirect Cost: ¥240,000)
Fiscal Year 2009: ¥1,040,000 (Direct Cost: ¥800,000、Indirect Cost: ¥240,000)
Fiscal Year 2008: ¥2,340,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,800,000、Indirect Cost: ¥540,000)
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| Research Abstract |
I examined mechanisms of lexical diffusion in phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, and lexicon in the history of English from a global perspective of complex adaptive system. Interesting principles have been proposed in an attempt to provide an underlying, unified theory of complex adaptive system. These include, selection, self-organization, scaling of parameters, robustness and networks of connections. I discussed that lexical diffusion is the fundamental mechanism of language evolution from the following perspectives : (1)dynamic dialectology and complex adaptive system,(2)small-world networks of the lexicon,(3)S-curve progress, snowball effectand word frequency and(4)ambiguity and robustness. I will publish a book Language Evolution and Complex Adaptive System from Peter Lang in 2011.
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