A corpus-based analysis of multiple clause linkage structure in Japanese

2015 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 24520523
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Japanese linguistics
• Research Institution: National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics
• Principal Investigator: MARUYAMA Takehiko 大学共同利用機関法人人間文化研究機構国立国語研究所, 大学共同利用機関等の部局等, 准教授 (90392539)
• Project Period (FY): 2012-04-01 – 2016-03-31
• Keywords: コーパス / 話し言葉 / 節連鎖構造

Outline of Final Research Achievements

This study will quantitatively and qualitatively describe the multiple clause linkage structure in contemporary spoken and written Japanese, using two large-scale Japanese corpora, Corpus of Spontaneous Japanese (CSJ) and Balanced Corpus of Contemporary Written Japanese (BCCWJ).
The following two research questions are posed: 1. What types of clauses are connected in what order to form the multiple clause linkage structure? 2. What factors bear on the variable use of the multiple clause linkage structure?

Free Research Field

日本語学