Author : Yasuyo Nakagomi
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Book Synopsis A Contrastive Study of Japanese and English Syntax by : Yasuyo Nakagomi
Download or read book A Contrastive Study of Japanese and English Syntax written by Yasuyo Nakagomi and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This thesis is an attempt to analyze Japanese and English syntax and compare them using a trans formational approach. The study is concerned with the investigation of the differences and similarities of certain grammatical structures of Japanese and English. This thesis consists of four parts. Part I introduces the reason why a transformational technique is adopted, and the procedure as to how the technique could be applied to a contrastive analysis, and also presents one of the characteristic features of Japanese, i.e. the problem of style, for the benefit of the reader's understanding of this thesis. Part II is concerned with phrase structure the analysis of which is focused on the constituents of the basic sentences: the topics bo be discussed are the noun phrase, in Chapter 2, and the verb phrase, in Chapter 3 5 and a contrastive presentation of these phrases between the two languages will be attempted. Part III (namely Chapter 4) deals with the transforms: i.e. interrogatives, negative sentences, imperatives, and passive sentences, which may be derived from the basic sentences by the application of trans formational rules. The foregoing contrastive analysis of basic sentences and their constituents, and the discussion with regard to certain transforms of Japanese and English reveal several distinctive features of both languages. In conclusion. Part IV (Chapter 5) further discusses those problems that are not discussed in detail in the previous chapters but considered as significant: i.e. the problems of syntactic devices and of modification. This study has been made in hopes of predicting some problems for speakers of Japanese in learning English syntax. Therefore, several remarks on the problems that they might encounter will also be given.