Present-day English Grammar and Usage
To clarify the actual use of present-day English grammar and usage
"My research project has two goals. The first goal is to clarify the actual usage of present-day English grammar and usage based on descriptive apparoach by corpora. The second goal is to contribute to English education through the achivement of my research."
This lab is for this SDG activity:
STUDY FIELDS
- English linguistics
- Corpus linguistics
- English language education
FOR SOCIETY
The achivements of my research leads to the improvement of the definitions and explanations in the padagogical English-Japanese dictionaries and referece books about English grammar and usage
RESEARCH THEMES
- the relationship between the occurrence/non-occurrence of the complementizer that and the meanings
- the relationship between the existence/non-existence of to be and the meanings of copular verbs such as seem, look, appear and so on