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：
03610238
负责人：
IMAI Mitsunori
金额：
$ 0.96万
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：
1991
资助国家：
日本
起止时间：
1991 至 1992
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://kaken.nii.ac.jp/grant/KAKENHI-PROJECT-03610238/
关键词：
Elizabethan English Prose Early Modern English Participial Construction History of English Corpus Linguistics Thomas Deloney Thomas Nashe John Lyly トマス・デロニー英語分詞構文英語発達史英語文体コ-パス言語学トマス・デロニ-

项目摘要

The purpose of the present research is manifold: firstly, it aims at investigating into the use of participles in Elizabethan English prose. The type of participles investigated is the one called "free adjunct" or "nexus tertiary". The works investigated are: Thomas Deloney's Iacke of Newberie, Thomas Nashe's The Vnfortvnate Traveler, and John Lyly's Euphues.Secondly, the present research tries to show 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 a 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 programmes have been written in 'Mil', a programming language of 'Mifes' (Megasoft, Osaka).The database thus built from the prose by the three 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.

本研究的目的是多种多样的：首先，它旨在调查伊丽莎白女王时代英语散文的使用。所研究的分词类型是一种称为“自由辅助”或“ nexus tertiary”的类型。调查的作品是：托马斯·德洛尼（Thomas Deloney）的纽伯里（Newberie），托马斯·纳什（Thomas Nashe）的《 vnfortvnate Traveler》和John Lyly's Euphues。如今，越来越多的电子文本可以访问，使用计算机数据库的英国语言学家有时可能会感到自己创建自己的必要性。发生部分原因是因为现有语料库可能不包含他们需要的特定版本的特定文本。三分之二的是，本研究试图建立一种具有个人计算机的新手可以轻松地将语料库处理到数据库中的方法，他可以从中取回该语料库他的研究多种多样的项目。为此，为“ Mifes”的一种编程语言（Megasoft，Osaka）编写了许多程序。句子的长度和用作语料库中免费辅助的分词的出现，结果表明正在检查的两个项目之间可能存在相关性。