The present monograph addresses collocations in the Japanese language from linguistic and pedagogical point of view. The research is based on an empirical corpus-based approach to language analysis using various corpora and tools for the analysis and presentation of language, which the author creates and adapts to the needs of the research. The work highlights the importance of the phenomenon of distant collocations and it closely examines it with the case of modal adverbs and modal expressions in the end of a close. The research results show a marked tendency of co-occurrences and their dependence on corpora genres. Additionally, the study examines collocations within teaching materials for the Japanese language, shows that their treatment in the existing textbooks and dictionaries is insufficient, and offers suggestions for improvement of these materials.
The presentation provides an overview of resources on collocations available for Japanese language learners and discusses potential of such resources. The first part of the presentation draws attention on a state-of-the art tool for extracting collocational relations based on corpus-query syntax. The second part describes a model for learner’s dictionary creation addressing the phenomenon of unpredictability as a relevant factor in resource development targeted at foreign language learners. Finally, the presentation addresses the potential application of the resources for discovering and learning collocations within their specific sociological background. (Keynote talk)
COBISS.SI-ID: 60022626
The paper presents corpus query tools and their possible application in the field of Japanese didactics and lexicography for foreign language students. It provides examples of the direct use of tools in the classroom and the possible use of tools in the preparation of teaching materials and dictionaries. The paper is included in the prestigious series of monographs Japanese corpora prepared by the National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics in Japan. It appears as the sixth chapter in the monograph Japanese corpora and didactics, which consists of papers by the most prominent authors in the field of Japanese didactic with corpus approach.
COBISS.SI-ID: 60067938
This paper discusses corpus-based research on collocations, introduces various tools for querying and extracting Japanese collocations and presents an analysis of Japanese collocations using language corpora and related tools. First, major corpus query tools such as Sketch Engine, NINJAL-NLP, Natsume, Chunagon, which can be used by learners and teachers of Japanese language, are briefly described. Focus then shifts to adjectival and nominal collocates and the resource "Collocation data of adjectives and nouns" which consists of adjective headwords and their nominal collocates extracted from two large corpora, BCCWJ and JpTenTen: 500 adjectives and 9,218 collocate nouns, and 500 adjectives and 23,220 collocate nouns from each corpus respectively. Finally, it is shown that corpus-based resources can be used in the creation of reference materials for learners of the Japanese language. The benefits of empirical research into collocations are also shown by comparing the obtained results with collocations in textbooks for Japanese as foreign language.
COBISS.SI-ID: 56970594