Lecturers: Setsuko ARITA (Osaka Shoin Women's University)
"Aspects of Japanese Conditional Expressions",
Koji MORITA (TUFS)
"Comparative Research into the'linguistic world views'of Polish and Japanese",
Emiko HAYATSU (TUFS)"Causative Sentences and Causative Verbs"
Professor MORITA reported on recent research in Poland on the contrasting"linguistic world views"of Polish and Japanese, focusing on the words"work"and"freedom".
Professor HAYATSU reexamined the relationship between causative sentences and their original sentences and offered the interesting viewpoint that causative, original and passive sentences could be viewed comprehensively through the system of structures concerning the sentence subjectー in other words, through the voice framework of Japanese.
Professor ARITA identified the speaker's knowledge and relation to the first clause as well as the settledness of the first clause as two key concepts to understanding conditional sentences.
She presented detailed discussion on Japanese epistemic conditional sentences, through comparisons with English. (Tomomi SUZUKI）
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