Lecturer: Toshiaki OHYA (University of Tsukuba)
Speakers: Yuji KAWAGUCHI, Shinjiro KAZAMA (TUFS)
The 13th Reserch Seminar for Contrastive Study for Japanese and Other Languages was hosted by the International Center for Japanese Studies, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies.
Yuji KAWAGUCHI examined the historical development of negative constructions in French. He explained, with the use of examples, each stage in the grammaticalization of the negative constructions found in old French.
Toshiaki OYA focused on the ambiguity of structures using bekommen (German for 'get') or 'free datives', which allow passive and causative interpretations, and considered the meanings of the causative in such cases.
Shinjiro KAZAMA questioned whether Japanese is a dependent-marking type language. He suggested that predicates in Japanese often mark the grammatical person of their subject, and questioned whether grammatical relationships between Japanese nouns were really marked by the nominative and accusative cases. (Takayuki MIYAKE)
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