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ICJS "Contrastive study for Japanese and other languages" The 20th Research Seminar(17 December 2016)

14:00-17:50, Saturday, 17 December 2016
Room 419 (Conference room, the Institute of Language Research) 4F,
Research and Lecture Building, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies (Fuchu Campus)

Lecturer:Hidehiko NAKAZAWA(Emeritus Professor, TUFS)
Speakers:Shin ABE,Honore WATANABE(TUFS)

Shin ABE summarized used "meta-analysis" to summarize these research results and analyze the beliefs of learners around the world about learning grammar and vocabulary, revealing, from an "accuracy-orientated" perspective, significant regional trends in the importance learners assign to grammar and vocabulary.
Honore WATANABE showed how in verbal predicates in Sliammon, voice, aspect, plurals, diminutives, transitive objects and subjects are expressed by suffixes or repetition. Sliammon is thus often considered typologically as a synthetic language. A maximum of 2 arguments can be explicitly included in the verb.
Hidehiko NAKAZAWA claimed that the practice of considering Slavic languages from the perspective of Russian, due to its large number of speakers and Russia' s global power, should be corrected. Russian is only one Slavic language among many. Reconsideration of Ukrainian reveals continuity with Russian and other Slavic languages. The characteristics of its phonology, vocabulary, morphology and syntax were then contrasted with Russian and Polish. The lecture touched on Ukrainian history, music and poetry, revealing Nakazawa' s erudition and love of Ukrainian language and culture.


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