A Computer-assisted Study of Participles in Early Modern English

早期现代英语分词的计算机辅助研究

基本信息

批准号：
05610389
负责人：
IMAI Mitsunori
金额：
$ 0.9万
依托单位：
Osaka University
依托单位国家：
日本
项目类别：
Grant-in-Aid for General Scientific Research (C)
财政年份：
1993
资助国家：
日本
起止时间：
1993 至 1994
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://kaken.nii.ac.jp/en/grant/KAKENHI-PROJECT-05610389/
关键词：
Elizabethan English Prose Early Modern English Participial Construction Corpus Linguistics Thomas Deloney Thomas Nashe Philip Sidney History of English 英語分詞構文エリザベス朝散文英語コンピュータ利用 Philip Sidney

项目摘要

The purpose of the present research is manifold ; firstly, it aims to investigate into the use of participles in Elizabethan English prose. It deals with the type of participles called "Free Adjuncts" or the ones in "Nexus Tertiary". The works investigated are : Thomas Deloney's Iacke of Newberie, Thomas Nash's the Vnfortvnate Traveler, John Lyly's Euphues, The Anatomy of Wyt, and Philip Sidney's Arcadia. Secondly, the present research shows that a corpus can be produced by using an Optical Character Reader with ease and accuracy, for though an increasing number of electronic texts are accessible today, English philologists using computerized databases may sometimes feel the necessity to create their own. This happens partly because existing corpora may not comprise particular texts of particular editions that they need. Thirdly, the present research attempts to establish a method by which a novice with a personal computer can easily process the corpus into a database from which he can retrieve a variety of items of great utility for his research. For this purpose a number of programs have been written in 'Mil', a programming language of 'Mifes' (Megasoft, Osaka).The database thus built from the prose by the four authors has been searched for data relating, for example, to sentence length and the occurrence of participles used as free adjuncts in the corpus, with the result that indicates a possible correlation between the two items under examination.An investigation from the point of view of discourse analysis has also been made as regards the logical subject of participles used in the front position of a sentence, with the result that the logical subject can most often be found in the subject of the last main or subordinate clause in the immediately preceding sentence.

本研究的目的是多方面的；首先，旨在探讨伊丽莎白时代英语散文中分词的使用。它处理称为“自由附加语”或“Nexus Tertiary”中的分词类型。调查的作品有：托马斯·德洛尼的《纽伯里的亚克》、托马斯·纳什的《幸运旅行者》、约翰·莱利的《尤弗斯》、《怀特的解剖》和菲利普·西德尼的《阿卡迪亚》。其次，目前的研究表明，使用光学字符阅读器可以轻松准确地生成语料库，因为尽管当今可以访问的电子文本越来越多，但使用计算机化数据库的英语语言学家有时可能会觉得有必要创建自己的语料库。发生这种情况的部分原因是现有语料库可能不包含他们需要的特定版本的特定文本。第三，本研究试图建立一种方法，通过该方法，拥有个人计算机的新手可以轻松地将语料库处理成数据库，从数据库中他可以检索对他的研究很有用的各种项目。为此目的，已经用“Mil”编写了许多程序，“Mil”是“Mifes”（Megasoft，大阪）的一种编程语言。因此，根据四位作者的散文建立的数据库已被搜索，以查找相关数据，例如，句子长度和语料库中用作自由助词的分词的出现情况，结果表明所检查的两个项目之间可能存在相关性。还从话语分析的角度对逻辑关系进行了调查。用于句子前面位置的分词主语，因此逻辑主语最常出现在前一个句子的最后一个主句或从句的主语中。