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
Collège de France (CdF).
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