Abstract
This study is an integral part of our efforts to build a "Spoken Japanese Corpus of Engineering" and to analyze utterances from seminars to provide Japanese language support for the research activities of international engineering students and researchers. This paper examines the use of wago-verb (Japanese origin verbs) in four fields of engineering. The results show 22 commonly used wago-verb that appear more than 20 times in all four fields, all of which are either former JLPT Level 3 or 4. Wago-verb used in seminars are mostly beginning level verbs, such as naru, miru, and kangaeru, although the utterances occur in a technical context. Nouns co-occurring with the commonly used wago-verb were categorized into former JLPT Level 2 or above, most of which consist of technical kanji words or loan words, in contrast to the verbs. Furthermore, it was confirmed that the co-occurrence patterns of the commonly used verbs and the nouns used in each field were mostly elementary level sentences.
