The Contrastive Studies of the Relative Clauses based on Parallel Corpus of Japanese and English

2015 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 25370496
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Linguistics
• Research Institution: Japan Women's University
• Principal Investigator: TANABE Kazuko 日本女子大学, 文学部, 教授 (60188357)
• Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha): CHUJO Kiyomi 日本大学, 生産工学部, 教授 (50261889)
• Project Period (FY): 2013-04-01 – 2016-03-31
• Keywords: パラレルコーパス / 格外連体修飾形 / 二語漢語動名詞

Outline of Final Research Achievements

This study aims to contrast Japanese non- gap type relative clauses with their coresponding English translation based on Japanese-English News Article
Alignment Data (Uchiyama and Isahara,2003) with Web Para News, a search engine developed by Chujo & Anthony ( 2013 ).
In my data searched on the Balanced Corpus of Contemporary Written Japanese (BCCWJ), in the case of the fact-S construction, most of the nominal heads are the subjected two character Sino-Japanese. It's because in Japanese the subjected 2 character Sino-Japanese gerunds are frequently adopted when the abstract concepts are expressed. As a result of the contrastive analysis, Japanese fact-S construction does not tend to be translated into relative clause construction in English. The English meaning of verbs or auxiliaries usually reflects the connotation of Japanese fact-S construction.

Free Research Field

日本語学