Interest in the Japanese Language is constantly growing throughout the globe, and as a result a series of lectures by guest speakers at an international seminar, "Le JAPONAIS 2000", was held in France at the very beginning of the 3rd Millennium. Not only various aspects of the language but also its presence in theoretical linguistic research were the subjects discussed on that occasion. Most of the seminar lectures are included in this volume. They deal with problems such as the structure of old and modern Japanese, theoretical implications of linguistic studies in the field of Japanese vocabulary and grammar, teaching methodology as well as electronic dictionary building and machine translation technology.
The seminar received grants from The Japan Foundation in 2000 and 2001. It was organized by the Unité Mixte de Recherche Civilisation Japonaise (UMR 8073), a research group working under the joint auspices of the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes (EPHE) and College de France (CdF).

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Japanese: An International Language
　　Andre WLODARCZYK

Japanese as Seen from Outside and from Inside
　　Yoshihiko IKEGAMI
From Japanese to General Linguistics: Starting with the Wa and Ga Particles
　　Andre WLODARCZYK
From Rodriguez to Computational Linguistics: Japanese in European Linguistics
　　Viktoria ESCHBACH-SZABO
Will Cognitive Change Cause GA to O Change in Constructions of GA/O Alternation?
　　Seiichi MAKINO
Between Grammaticalization and Drift:The Case of Japanese Copula
　　Lone TAKEUCHI

Integration of Language and Culture: A Theory of “An Individual’s Culture” in Japanese Language Teaching
　　Hideo HOSOKAWA
Computational Approaches: A Multi-modal Approach to Lexical Semantics
　　Naoyuki OKADA
An Entity-Based Linguistic Framework: The Case of Japanese Syntax
　　Zoya M. SHALYAPINA
Information Reception and Dispatch Using Internet Machine Translation Systems
　　Shoichi YOKOYAMA

著者略歴

Andre WLODARCZYK is a professor of Japanese Linguistics at Charles de Gaulle University (Lille). He first worked at the CNRS (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique) introducing computational methods into research on the Japanese language in France. He edited "Travaux de Linguistique Japonaise" (a series of collected papers) which were the fruit of his seminar on Japanese Linguistics at Denis Diderot University (Paris 7).