Studies on a formal model of construction morphology

2016 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 15H06258
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Research Activity Start-up
• Allocation Type: Single-year Grants
• Research Field: English linguistics
• Research Institution: National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (2016); Nagoya University (2015)
• Principal Investigator: Asao Yoshihiko 国立研究開発法人情報通信研究機構, ユニバーサルコミュニケーション研究所データ駆動知能システム研究センター, 研究員 (10755119)
• Project Period (FY): 2015-08-28 – 2017-03-31
• Keywords: 形態論 / 日本語 / コーパス / 言語資源 / 用法基盤モデル / 構文文法

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").

Free Research Field

言語学