Certainly, there are many places I would quibble with him; however, even where I am in disagreement with Kuno, I find his analyses and observations leading me more deeply into the workings of the Japanese langu
4 1975-76 A REVIEW OF The Structure of the Japanese Language by Susumu Kuno Cambridge, Massachusetts; ΜΓΓ Press (1973) Pp. xi, 410. $15.00 Noriko A. McCawley University of Chicago I. General Remarks 1) I must begin by congratulating the author for this beautiful book. Certainly, ...
Beginning with Kuno [1973. The structure of the Japanese language. The MIT Press, Cambridge, MA], there has been much discussion concerning the difference in meaning between the Japanese complementizers no and koto. Most of these discussions have been concerned with what no or koto means, based...
Japanese writing uniquely accommodates the structure of the Japanese language. 10 Chinese Writing Characters often have multiple meanings and pronunciations. In Chinese writing, one character can mean different things in different contexts. 6 Japanese Writing Kanji in Japanese often has multiple readings...
When people discuss the difficulties of learning the Japanese language, they normally mention the following things: 文法 (Bunpou – Grammar), 敬語 (Keigo – Formal language) and 文型 (Bunkei – Sentence structure). These three points all differ greatly when compared to European languages. The ...
This writing ‘An analysis of Japanese capitalism’ that investigated a structure of the Japanese capitalism, which was built its prototype during the Meiji Restoration of Japan, written by Seitaro Yamada attained wide circulation among many people who were interested in social science in the prewar ...
of the tonal languages, and by far the most popular and most widely spoken language is Mandarin Chinese. It is like the English of the east. It has a simple tonal system, a simple grammar, and a simple sound system. Itisdifferent from western languages, but it is simple in structure. ...
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morphophonemics. In particular, they have rightly pointed out that, on the one hand,onbinled to a major typological shift in the phonological structure, while, on the other, it affected the shape of the inflected forms, causing a change in the morphophonological structure of verb and ...
Keywords—Analysis, Structure, Texture, Japanese Advertisement, SFL I. INTRODUCTION Advertising is a form of communication that discloses information or messages and promotes the speaker's intent to his or her opponent. The language used in advertising is a language that is easy to understand and ...