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Linguistic Text Analysis Lab
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A linguistics lab that uses generative grammar and electronic corpora to explore language universals and language change.
AboutAbout the lab
Explaining language change and variation through theory and data.
The Linguistic Text Analysis Lab studies how human language ability is acquired and how it changes and varies, from the standpoint of humanities-oriented linguistics.
The lab investigates these questions from both theoretical and empirical sides, using generative grammar theory, which emerged in the mid-1950s, and electronic corpora, which have become widespread since the 2000s.
The lab statistically analyzes language data collected from large groups of speakers, and adopts new methods for testing whether hypotheses in theoretical linguistics are valid.
The lab aims to clarify what the universality of natural language is, within the framework of generative grammar.
Key terms
- Generative grammar
- A linguistic theory that emerged in the mid-1950s and seeks to explain the mechanisms of the linguistic knowledge people have
- Electronic corpus
- A large collection of text and speech that was actually used, organized so that it can be searched and analyzed by computer
- Grammaticalization
- A type of language change in which an ordinary word becomes a word with a grammatical function
NewsLab news
A joint study by a faculty member and a doctoral student was published in Interdisciplinary Information Sciences
A joint study by a faculty member and a doctoral student was published in Explorations in English Linguistics
A collected volume edited by Prof. Ogawa was published by Palgrave Macmillan
The Language Change and Variation Research Unit (Phase 5) has started its activities
A paper co-authored by Prof. Ogawa was published in Interdisciplinary Information Sciences
ResearchResearch themes
The Linguistic Text Analysis Lab uses generative grammar theory and electronic corpora to study how human linguistic knowledge is acquired and what forms of expression that knowledge produces. From both theoretical and empirical sides, the lab seeks to clarify what the universality of natural language is and how linguistic knowledge changes and varies.
*Illustrative imageSyntactic Structure and Grammaticalization in Japanese, English, and Chinese
Based on microparametric syntax, historical syntax, and morphosyntax, the lab studies the syntactic structures of Japanese, English, and Chinese, as well as grammaticalization and constructionalization.
*Illustrative imageAcquisition and Change of Constructions Seen Through Corpora
Based on analyses of various electronic corpora and large-scale surveys that ask whether sentences sound natural to speakers, the lab studies the acquisition and development of a variety of constructions in Japanese and English, as well as their change and differences between generations.
MembersFaculty
The members of the Linguistic Text Analysis Lab consist of faculty members, doctoral students, and undergraduate research students.
- ProfessorYoshiki Ogawa
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