• ILCAA Joint Research Project
• General

Morphology and syntax of Narrative

ID: jrp000276

Keywordnarrative, story-telling, morpho-syntax, linguistic typology

This study will explore the morphosyntactic characteristics of “narratives” observed in various languages, including minority languages in Asia and Africa, as well as languages with many speakers such as Japanese and German. A narrative is a genre of utterance that can be defined as a “chronologically-arranged event situated in a place spatiotemporally distant from the utterance situation.” In addition to ‘Parallax’ corpora based on the data elicited through a common task, this project will also analyze natural utterances. Our aim is first to identify the morphosyntactic characteristics specific to narratives in individual languages and then attempt to generalize the characteristics cross-linguistically. This study also will explore better standards for developing text corpora.

Date

2022.04.01～2025.03.31

Member

Coordinator : SHIOHARA Asako

Co-Coordinator : KURABE Keita

ILCAA Staff : KOGURA Norikazu, WATANABE Honoré

Joint Researchers : NAKAGAWA Natsuko, KUMAKIRI Taku, NARITA Takashi, EVANS Nicholas, BARTH Danielle, ENDO Tomoko, NOMOTO Hiroki, ONO Hitomi, INAGAKI Kazuya, KIMOTO Yukinori, SCHNELL Stefan