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."

College of Engineering Civil Engineering Urban Infrastructure and Environment
Faculty Name
TSUCHIYA, Tomohiro
Keyword
present-day English grammar and usage,corpus,descriptive approach,improvement of the English-Japanese dictionary,Improvement of English education,teaching materials development,improvement of TOEIC score
Laboratory location
No.4 Building OMIYA Campus 4F 4403-2

This lab is for this SDG activity:

  • 質の高い教育をみんなに
  • 人や国の不平等をなくそう
  • パートナーシップで目標を達成しよう

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

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