BARRS, Keith    Department   Hiroshima shudo University  The Faculty of Humanities and Human Sciences    Position   Professor
Date	2014/09
Presentation Theme	Lexical semantics of English loanwords in Japanese
Conference	英国応用言語学会 BAAL 2014
Conference Type	International
Presentation Type	Speech (General)
Contribution Type	Individual
Details	This paper will discuss research which replaces data gained through researcher/participant introspection with that gained through empirical observation. Using two related web-based corpora of over 10 billion words each (accessed through the Sketch Engine), results will be shown of a comparative collocation analysis of a selection of loanwords which have high frequency in both English and Japanese. For each language, a set of collocations with the highest ranking (based on the LogDice association measure) were categorised and compared to search for lexical semantic modifications. The findings from the corpus-based analysis allow a theory of lexical borrowing to be derived from the empirical data, rather than from intuition. As well as the research findings, this paper will outline the methodological steps involved in conducting the collocation analysis.