BARRS, Keith    Department   Hiroshima shudo University  The Faculty of Humanities and Human Sciences    Position   Professor
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.