Proceedings of the Korean Society for Language and Information Conference (한국언어정보학회:학술대회논문집)
- 2007.11a
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- Pages.330-339
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- 2007
Japanese Expressions that Include English Expressions
- Murata, Masaki (National Institure of Information and Communications Technology) ;
- Kanamaru, Toshiyuki (National Institure of Information and Communications Technology) ;
- Nakamoto, Koichirou (Osaka University of Foreign Studies) ;
- Kotani, Katsunori (National Institure of Information and Communications Technology) ;
- Isahara, Hitoshi (National Institure of Information and Communications Technology)
- Published : 2007.11.01
Abstract
We extracted English expressions that appear in Japanese sentences in newspaper articles and on the Internet. The results obtained from the newspaper articles showed that the preposition "in" has been regularly used for more than ten years, and it is still regularly used now. The results obtained from the Internet articles showed there were many kinds of English expressions from various parts of speech. We extracted some interesting expressions that included English prepositions and verb phrases. These were interesting because they had different word orders to the normal order in Japanese expressions. Comparing the extracted English and katakana expressions, we found that the expressions that are commonly used in Japanese are often written in the katakana syllabary and that the expressions that are not so often used in Japanese, such as prepositions, are hardly ever written in the katakana syllabary.