BARRS, Keith
Department Hiroshima shudo University The Faculty of Humanities and Human Sciences Position Professor |
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Language | English |
Publication Date | 2018/11 |
Type | Articles |
Peer Review | With peer review |
Title | A Corpus Analysis of the Grammatical Behaviour of English Loanwords
in the Japanese Language |
Contribution Type | Single-Authored Publication |
Journal Type | Another Country |
Publisher | University of Leicester |
Volume, Issue, Pages | pp.1-246 |
Number of pages | 246 |
Details | This study is a corpus analysis of the grammatical behaviour of frequently-used English loanwords in contemporary Japanese. Framed within a lexico-grammatical view of language, a sample of over 500 English loanwords were analysed within their naturally-occurring linguistic contexts in a large Japanese corpus. A subsequent analysis of the most salient collocates of a sub-sample of the loanwords found that the more strongly a loanword favoured the compound noun grammatical relationship, the more strongly and exclusively it collocated with other loanwords rather than with native and/or Sino-Japanese words. In accounting for this behaviour, these loanwords appear to be ‘non-catachrestic innovations’ (Onysko and Winter-Froemel, 2011), a category of loanwords which are seen to be the pragmatically marked lexical choices in a language. |