• 제목/요약/키워드: Japanese language

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Underspecified Japanese Semantics in a Machine Translation System

  • Gamback, Bjorn;Lieske, Christian;Mori, Yoshiki
    • 한국언어정보학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 한국언어정보학회 1996년도 Language, Information and Computation = Selected Papers from the 11th Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation, Seoul
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    • pp.53-62
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    • 1996
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일본 식민지시대의 경관개념어 연구 -육당의 [조선의 산수]에 나타 난 경을 중심으로- (A Study on the Use of the Word "Kyoung" of Choi Nam-Sun)

  • 정하광
    • 한국조경학회지
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    • 제20권1호
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    • pp.18-28
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    • 1992
  • A purpose of this study is to identify the concept formation and classify the diverse concepts which related to Kyoung(景) of Chio Nam-Sun at Korea under Japanese colonial rule (a turning point in the korean history). The cultural policy of th Japanese Government-General was aimed at the destruction of Korean nationalism and racial consciousness and the rapid Japanizatio of the Koreans. In the name of assimilation, Korean language instruction was first simply discouraged while the movement for the use of Japanese was stepped up, the use of the Japanese language was forced upon the Koreans, and textbook revision was carried out in order to develop Shinto nationalism and loyalty to the emperor and the state. The results were as follows; The type of landscape concept was 10 types and had the following frequencies in order; Pung-Kuoung(風景)(42), Kyoung-Chi(景致)(21), Koang-Kyoung(光景)(8), Kyoung-Sung(景勝)(7), Kyoung-Gae(景槪)(5), Kyoung-Goan(景觀)(2), Sung-Kyoung(勝景)(2), Kyoung(景)(2), Sil-Kyoung(實景)(1), Pung-Kyoung-Goan(風景觀)(1). Types of landscape concepts in critical periods were classified into 10 according to the many characteristics; personal situations, cultural policy and education policy of Japanese.

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The Incredible Shrinking Noun Phrase: Ongoing Change in Japanese Word Formation

  • Kevin Heffernan;Yusuke Imanishi
    • 아시아태평양코퍼스연구
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    • 제4권1호
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    • pp.1-23
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    • 2023
  • The Japanese language, as a typical agglutinating language, permits large noun phrases (NP) containing ten or more morphemes. In this paper, we argue that the nature of the NP in Japanese is changing. Our data are drawn from the Balanced Corpus of Contemporary Written Japanese. We conduct a series of apparent-time studies of ongoing changes in complex NPs. We first examine the length of compound nouns, followed by the usage of bound suffixes. We then examine ongoing changes in complex NPs that contain genitive case markers. Finally, we examine noun incorporation. All of our studies show a trend towards shorter, less complex NPs. Furthermore, our results suggest that the usage rate of phrases that modify the noun inside the NP (compound nouns, bound nouns, NPs containing genitive case, noun incorporation) appears to be decreasing over time. On the other hand, the usage rate of modifying material outside of the NP (positional phrases, relative clauses) appears to be increasing over time. We conclude by suggesting that our results reflect a diachronic change of decreasing synthetic morphology and increasing analytic morphology. We end by pointing out the implications of this work on our understanding syntheticity and analyticity.

Cultural Exchange Between Korean and Japanese Students Through Videos

  • Seo, Eun-Mi
    • 영어어문교육
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    • 제9권2호
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    • pp.1-16
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    • 2003
  • This paper describes a video exchange project between English classes in South Korea and in Japan. Korean and Japanese students worked in groups to make short videos in English which were then exchanged. After viewing their counterparts' videos, students e-mailed feedback to each other. This project was the third video exchange project between Korean and Japanese university students since 2001. However, it was the first time to try it with three universities together. Students from the different universities tried to compete with each other. It provided a better chance for students to improve their English. Most students expressed the importance of the video exchange project in developing their English proficiency and enabling them to use English in an international context. Many students agreed that the project was an educational, enjoyable and worthwhile experience.

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Grammaticalization and Semantic Typology: Time-relationship Adverbs in Japanese, Korean, English and German

  • Moriya, Tetsuharu;Horie, Kaoru
    • 한국언어정보학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 한국언어정보학회 2002년도 Language, Information, and Computation Proceedings of The 16th Pacific Asia Conference
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    • pp.348-357
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    • 2002
  • This paper discusses constraints on grammaticalization, a primarily diachronic process through which lexical elements take on grammatical functions. In particular, it will argue that two constraints on this process, namely Persistence and Lwering, explain the different distributional patterns of time-relationship adverbs in Japanese, Korean, English and German. Furthermore, it will suggest that the distributional difference between Japanese and Korean time-relationship adverbs is not an isolated phenomenon but is a reflection of the overall semantic typological differences between the two languages in the sense of Hawkins (1986).

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Implicit Adjuncts : The Cases of Degree Modifiers in Japanese and English

  • Ikeya, Akira;Ikawa, Hisako
    • 한국언어정보학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 한국언어정보학회 2002년도 Language, Information, and Computation Proceedings of The 16th Pacific Asia Conference
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    • pp.92-102
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    • 2002
  • The issue of adjuncts has long been a neglected field of linguistic study whether it be syntactic or semantic. It is only in Pustejovsky (1995) that we find a brief mention of adjuncts. In addition to what the author calls true arguments, default arguments, and shadow arguments, he sets up a class of true adjuncts citing the following sentence, Mary drove down to new York on Tuesday. We will take up a small lexical item sugiru in Japanese, and we will argue that we should posit the notion of implicit adjuncts in describing the properties with the small Japanese lexical item sugiru. Throughout the discussions that follow we will demonstrate how the notion is independently motivated irrespective of what linguistic theory we are going to adopt.

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A Phonological Study on Japanese Discourse Markers

  • Kawamori, Masahito;Shimazu, Akira;Kawabata, Takeshi
    • 한국언어정보학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 한국언어정보학회 1996년도 Language, Information and Computation = Selected Papers from the 11th Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation, Seoul
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    • pp.297-306
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    • 1996
  • A spontaneously spoken, natural Japanese discourse contains many instances of the so-called redundant interjections and of backchannel utterances. These expressions have not hitherto received much attention and few systematic analyses have been made. We show that these utterances are characterizable as discourse markers, and that they comprise a well-defined category, characterizable in a regular manner by their phonologico-prosodic properties. Our report is based on an experiment involving spontaneously spoken conversations, recorded in a laboratory environment and analyzed using digital devices. Prosodic patterns of discourse markers occurring in the recorded conversations have been analyzed. Several pitch patterns have been found that characterize the most frequently used Japanese discourse markers

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