Basic Structure in Japanese Grammar In both Japanese and English, the basic sentence structure is: subject-object. For example: In English, we say "This is a pen" In Japanese we say "Kore ha pen" or これはペン。 Action Sentences Adding parts to a sentence can be confusing, but it's...
In the English sentence structure, this is represented by subject, verb, object: I > went > library. In Japanese, this same sentence would appear as subject > object > verb: watashi ha toshokan ni ikimashita 私は図書館に行きました, or “I library went.”...
Sentence StructureCommentLinguisticsComparing Japanese and English sentence structures, we see some interesting phenomena. In this article I will analyze and comment on the linguistic comparison of Japanese and English from the perspective of the differences in expression and structure. Eigo no Hassou (...
This paper proposes a cross-lingual English sentence retrieval system for Japanese queries. The system retrieves English sentences exactly by considering dependency structures in both Japanese and English. It enables the system to reflect the user's intention. We utilize a constraint on dependency stru...
The assumption is that there is no given element in the sentence. This term was originally called “post-FOCUS reduction” by Sugahara (2003), where “FOCUS” denotes the type of focus defined in fn. 8 (so-called contrastive focus). Fukuoka dialect, however, is known to exhibit a ...
English speakers ' intuitions are strong that pronouns as sentence subjects may not precede their referents (''She spoke after Susan...''). However, a pronoun in a subordinate clause may precede its referent (''After she spoke, Susan...'... CL Harris,EA Bates 被引量: 5发表: 2011年...
Baisc Japanese sentence structure Japanese grammar, on the other hand, is a intricate tapestry woven with particles that denote the relationships between various sentence components. This unique feature results in a subject-object-verb pattern, requiring learners to navigate a more complex grammatical la...
In Japanese, these phenomena are observed in a variety of grammatical constructions. For example, in reflexivization, an NP is only specified as zibun‘self’ (without even indicating the gender, unlike English), but it is usually identified with the subject of the sentence. In causatives and...
Measures of the sentence intonation of read and spontaneous speech in American English The visual abstraction procedure used in previous studies of declination was tested using 12 subjects who each fit the F0 contours of 19 spoken short simpl... Philip Lieberman,William Katz,Allard Jongman,... -...