| Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) |
TAKIZAWA Naohiro Nagoya University, Graduate School of International Development, Associate Prof., 大学院・国際開発研究科, 助教授 (60252285)
TSUZUKI Masako Chukyo University, Faculty of Liberal Arts, Prof., 教養部, 教授 (00227448)
FUKAYA Teruhiko Sugiyama University, School of Cross-cultural Studies, Prof., 国際コミュニケーション学部, 教授 (30173313)
OMURO Takeshi Nagoya University, Graduate School of International Development, Prof., 大学院・国際開発研究科, 教授 (70185388)
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| Research Abstract |
We investigated lexico-grammatical properties of various constructions in English, including those not yet well-documented in the literature. The detailed examination of these constructions revealed not only descriptive but also theoretical problems.
We improved our environment for corpus-based research by i) increasing our linguistic resources, ii) obtaining or making and improving some useful programs for searching and processing these resources, and iii) holding workshops aimed at the acquisition of skills and techniques for making effective use of corpora.
Throughout the period, all members remained in constant dialogue and examined many problems concerning the research topic in monthly meetings as well as through a research group mailing list. We also exchanged information on the theme with other experts in related fields, by participating in workshops or seminars held in Japan and abroad, inviting experts for open lectures, etc.
Some results of the project were made public by individual members through papers in various media, including English Corpus Studies, a journal of the Japan Association for English Corpus Studies, which plays the central role in corpus studies in Japan. In the last year of the project, we also examined the possible roles of large-scale corpora in linguistic research and linguistic theory, such as how to describe and characterize the markedness of linguistic phenomena objectively and how to relate the markedness in phenomena and the markedness in theory. Certain of the outcomes were reported in the symposium for the 22nd Conference of the Japan Association for English Corpus Studies, in which all the members of the project participated.
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