2010 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
A Diachronic Analysis of Grammaticalization in Japanese Noun Phrase
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20720127
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Research Field |
Japanese linguistics
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| Research Institution | Nagoya Gakuin University |
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Principal Investigator |
KITAMURA Masanori Nagoya Gakuin University, 商学部, 講師 (50455424)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2008 – 2010
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| Keywords | 文法化 / 名詞 / コーパス |
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| Research Abstract |
In this study, I obtained two major outcomes ; 1) to understand the origins and the factors affecting their grammatical transformation of Japanese noun phrases ; and 2) to construct a corpus for these analyses. For the first outcome, focusing on the two words, '-monoda' and '-tsumorida', I investigated their usage and semantic changes. Although there are a number of electronic text files of Japanese classic works on the Internet, it is not easy to search for necessary examples efficiently. Therefore, I constructed the corpus of Japanese classic works in the Middle Ages and early modern ages with a view to collecting the existing electronic text files and searching for the examples with ease
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