This is the second volume of the series "Usage-Based Linguistic Informatics", a product of the 21st century COE program held at Tokyo University of Foreign Studies (TUFS). The project has an objective to realize an integration of theoretical and applied linguistics on the basis of computer sciences. With a view to practically applying the results of linguistic analysis to language education, the promotion of individual language research has become a high-priority issue. A new field of linguistic research is intended to be developed by elucidating the state of linguistic usage based on the analysis of large amounts of linguistic data. The volume, thus, consists mainly of language-specific corpus-based analyses on sentence structures in ten different languages such as Nuuchahnulth, Korean, Chinese, Malay, Turkish, Arabic, Russian, French, English and Spanish. It also includes papers that deal with various theoretical issues in contrastive linguistics and typology.

Table of contents

Opening Address Setsuho Ikehata 1–2

Center of Usage-Based Linguistic Information (UBLI) Yuji Kawaguchi 3–7

Preface Toshihiro Takagaki 9–13 Argument Structure in Discourse: Argument Choice in Possessive Constructions in Nuuchahnulth Toshihide Nakayama 15–31

Grammatical Markers in Early Baihua and Late Mediaeval Korean in Mengshan’s Sayings Hideto Ito 33–49 When Words Form Sentences; Linguistic Field Theory: From Morphology through Morpho-Syntax to Supra-Morpho-Syntax Hideki Noma 51–75 A Usage-Based Analysis of the Causative Verb shi in Mandarin Chinese Takayuki Miyake 77–94 A Typology of Languages Based on Valence/Voice-marking and Focus Tsunekazu Moriguchi 95–125 Manner Adverb-like Adjectives in Malay Isamu Shoho and Hiroshi Uzawa 127–149 Two Turkish Clause Linkages; -DIK- and - mE: A Pilot Analysis Based on the METU Turkish Corpus Yuji Kawaguchi 151–177 Semi-Productivity and Valence Marking in Arabic: The So-Called "verbal themes" Robert R. Ratcliffe 179–190 The Imperfective Passive and Animacy in Russian Hidehiko Nakazawa 191–212 A Correspondance between N0-V-N1-de-N2 and N0-V-N2-Loc-N1 in French: The Case of Planter Yoichiro Tsuruga 213–232 Verb Constructions in English and Japanese: A Contrastive Study on Semantic Principles Kiyoko Sohmiya 233–251 Verb Forms in the Lest-Clause in Present-Day English Kazuyuki Urata 253–263 Project for the Sociolinguistic Study of Spanish from Spain and America (PRESEEA): A Corpus with a Grammar and Discourse Bias Francisco Moreno-Fernández 265–288 On the Productivity of the Spanish Passive Constructions Toshihiro Takagaki 289–309 Index of Proper Nouns 311–312 Index of Subjects 313–315 Contributors 317