2010 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
Grammatical Structures of French and Japanese Color Terms : Contrastive Study based on Corpora
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20520379
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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 |
Linguistics
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| Research Institution | Nagoya University |
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Principal Investigator |
FUJIMURA Itsuko Nagoya University, 国際開発研究科, 教授 (50229035)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2008 – 2010
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| Keywords | 色彩語彙 / コーパス / 品詞 / 対照研究 |
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| Research Abstract |
Japanese colour terms are known to take on a variety of grammatical forms through nominal modification while those in French are limited to their adjectival forms. In Japanese these various grammatical forms, corresponding to meaning and function, enrich colour related descriptions. While French may not share the same level of modification as Japanese, it is not to say that it is any less capable of bringing vibrancy to the realm of chromatic expression. In the generation of meaning, in addition to morphosyntactic forms, probabilistic factors such as the probability of co-occurrences play an important role.
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