Corpus–based Research into Derivational Morphology: A Comparative Study of Japanese and English Verbalization

Kód výsledku v IS VaVaI

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Výsledek na webu

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Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

Corpus–based Research into Derivational Morphology: A Comparative Study of Japanese and English Verbalization

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

As part of elucidating the syntax-morphology interaction, this study investigates where and how complex verbs are formed in Japanese and English. Focusing on the Japanese verb-forming suffix -ka-suru (e.g. toshi-o gendai-ka-suru `modernize city'), relevant verbs are extracted from a large-scale corpus and they receive an in-depth analysis from semantic, morphosyntactic, and functional viewpoints. The properties of -ka-suru and those of its English counterpart are then compared and contrasted. The result reveals three main points: (i) -ka-suru verbs are constantly created in syntactic settings to fulfill the functions of brevity and conceptualization, (ii) while denominal -ize derivatives have several submeanings such as `result,' `ornative,' and `agentive,' -ka-suru equivalents retain the meaning `result,' and (iii) -ka-suru can be combined with compound nouns, but -ize cannot. We will demonstrate that the above features originate in the underlying syntactic structure related to each suffix and their difference, thus supporting the thesis of syntactic word formation. (1) ji-kokumin-o moomai-ka-suru one's-people-ACC ignorant-change-do `make one's people ignorant' (2) shinikaketa momiji-o bonsai-ka-suru dying maple-ACC bonsai-change-do `turn a dying maple into a bonsai'

Název v anglickém jazyce

Corpus–based Research into Derivational Morphology: A Comparative Study of Japanese and English Verbalization

Popis výsledku anglicky

As part of elucidating the syntax-morphology interaction, this study investigates where and how complex verbs are formed in Japanese and English. Focusing on the Japanese verb-forming suffix -ka-suru (e.g. toshi-o gendai-ka-suru `modernize city'), relevant verbs are extracted from a large-scale corpus and they receive an in-depth analysis from semantic, morphosyntactic, and functional viewpoints. The properties of -ka-suru and those of its English counterpart are then compared and contrasted. The result reveals three main points: (i) -ka-suru verbs are constantly created in syntactic settings to fulfill the functions of brevity and conceptualization, (ii) while denominal -ize derivatives have several submeanings such as `result,' `ornative,' and `agentive,' -ka-suru equivalents retain the meaning `result,' and (iii) -ka-suru can be combined with compound nouns, but -ize cannot. We will demonstrate that the above features originate in the underlying syntactic structure related to each suffix and their difference, thus supporting the thesis of syntactic word formation. (1) ji-kokumin-o moomai-ka-suru one's-people-ACC ignorant-change-do `make one's people ignorant' (2) shinikaketa momiji-o bonsai-ka-suru dying maple-ACC bonsai-change-do `turn a dying maple into a bonsai'

Druh

D - Stať ve sborníku

CEP obor

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OECD FORD obor

10201 - Computer sciences, information science, bioinformathics (hardware development to be 2.2, social aspect to be 5.8)

Projekt

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Návaznosti

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Rok uplatnění

2024

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Název statě ve sborníku

Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Computational Linguistics in Bulgaria (CLIB 2024)

ISBN

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ISSN

2367-5578

e-ISSN

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Počet stran výsledku

9

Strana od-do

178-186

Název nakladatele

Department of Computational Linguistics, Institute for Bulgarian Language, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences

Místo vydání

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Místo konání akce

Sofia, Bulgaria

Datum konání akce

1. 1. 2025

Typ akce podle státní příslušnosti

WRD - Celosvětová akce

Kód UT WoS článku

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