Lexicology study of poetry critic based on corpus of Utaawase from the Heian period to the Kamakura period

2014 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 25770179
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Research Field: Japanese linguistics
• Research Institution: Chuo University (2014); National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics (2013)
• Principal Investigator: FUJIIKE Yumi 中央大学, 文学部, 准教授 (20510572)
• Project Period (FY): 2013-04-01 – 2015-03-31
• Keywords: 日本語史 / コーパス / 歌合 / 和歌評論 / 品詞比率

Outline of Final Research Achievements

"Utaawase corpus" is a corpus that is built by morphological annotations and digitization focusing on diversity of elements. In this study, I make an investigation into the constitution ratio of a part of speech based on "Utaawase corpus" and try to clarify the quantitative structure of vocabulary about poetry (waka) and prose in utaawase. About analyzing it, I use morphological annotations, special elements found only in utaawase, styles, sentence boundaries. The findings about poetry in utaawase shows a difference of ratio of a part of speech caused by thematic content of poetry, and it fall into neither category of text. The findings about prose in utaawase shows that utaawase nikki has a feature of "summarizing sentences". And it is different from other category of text such as descriptive part, especially revealed high ratio of nouns. In addition to the sentence length limitations and number of words in a sentence, suggesting that there is a factor that ratio of nouns increases.

Free Research Field

日本語学