Corpus-based Lexical Profiling of Modern Finnish Language and its Application to Syntactic Study

2015 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 23520471
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Linguistics
• Research Institution: Reitaku University
• Principal Investigator: Chiba Shoju 麗澤大学, 外国語学部, 教授 (70337723)
• Project Period (FY): 2011-04-28 – 2016-03-31
• Keywords: フィンランド語 / その他の外国語 / コーパス / 派生 / 統語論 / 国際情報交流 / フィンランド

Outline of Final Research Achievements

Lexical profiling technique stands for a framework of evaluating quantitatively the lexical characteristics (i.e. profiles) of different linguistic constructions. It calculates the lexical profiles of a set of data and compares them with an overall lexical picture the whole corpus.
Based on the large corpus data of written modern Finnish, this paper tackles the questions of estimating syntactic productivity of a construction on the basis of morphological complexity in that construction. This study argues that there are important correlations observable between the morphological productivity of a derivative and the degree of variety of its syntactic surroundings: The more productive a type of morphological derivation is, the more stable (i.e. the less lexically idiomatic) and more uniform (i.e. more characteristic) behavior the syntax of its constructional environments will show.

Free Research Field

言語学