1997 Fiscal Year Final Research Report Summary
Empirical Studies of Syntactic and Senantic Rule Systems in germ
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07610498
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Research Field |
独語・独文学
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| Research Institution | Tokyo University of Foreign Studies |
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Principal Investigator |
ZAIMA Susumu Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, Faculty of Foreign Studies, Professor, 外国語学部, 教授 (30117709)
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| Project Period (FY) |
1995 – 1997
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| Keywords | German / rule syatem / syntax / semantics |
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| Research Abstract |
In addition to the collected data in my "research report", the following insights could be obtained :
1) The valence theory, which analyzes the relationships between verbs and syntactic structures from the viewpoint of the verb. in fact treats the relationshios between the semantic variations of verbs, and ayntactic structures. Examining these relationships from the viewpoint not of morphological verbs, but of their semantic variations, we can get a more general idea of how and from which constituents the sentence meaning itself is constructed. It will surely lead to a change of viewpoints from the individual combinations of verbs to the construction of sentence meaning.
2) In this research where the construction of sentence meaning is treated, the acceptability plays an impotant role. The acceptability results from the whole meaning which is built with words or phrases inserted into the sentence structure. This would require a change from the paradigmatic oriented viewpoint to the syntagmatic oriented viewpoint to.This method is impossible, however, without retrieving data from text corpora with a personal computer.
3) The acceptability depends on the knowledge of the real world or the social culture, and the study of the acceptability makes it clear which events or states in the real world or the social culture are relevant to our communication.
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