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Conversational code-switching among Japanese-English bilinguals who have Japanese background
… the code-switching of native speakers of Japanese in an English-speaking context. The languages involved in code-switching therefore are English and Japanese. This is an instance of communication in the participants' first language, in a setting where the speakers' second language is …
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Korean Soil, Japanese Faces, American Empire: Repatriation and the Korean War Experiences of Japanese Laborers and Japanese American Soldiers
… the Korean War experiences of two ethnically Japanese groups that served the US military on the Korean Peninsula – second-generation Japanese American (Nisei) soldiers in the US Military Intelligence Service (MIS) and Japanese laborers – to demonstrate the salience of citizenship in the …
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Particle Ellipses in Japanese
In this study I consider two kinds of particle ellipsis, syntactic particle ellipsis and conversational particle ellipsis. Syntactic particle ellipsis (discussed in Chapter 1) is the type of particle ellipsis caused by certain syntactic conditions. Only case particles are ellipted under these …
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Sentential complementation in Japanese.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Foreign Literatures and Linguistics. Thesis. 1971. Ph.D.
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The history of loan words in Japanese and their effect on the Japanese language
… currently the biggest linguistic influence on Japanese is American English. Loan words from these influences can be found in all facets of Japanese life. In this essay I will examine the effect of loan words on the Japanese language. How is the language changing and are loan words assisting or …
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The transformation of the Japanese commercial code and its impact on the Japanese economy
… national social and economic situations. The Japanese Commercial Code is no exception. One of the most significant and fundamental Japanese laws, it was enacted in 1899 as part of the modernization of Japanese society as the country moved away from a policy of seclusion followed by the old …
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Prediction of Japanese color score
… our study was to explore relationships between Japanese color score (JCS) and pork-quality attributes and develop equations to predict JCS. Pork carcass traits in population one (n = 781) was used to develop prediction equations and population two (n = 684) was used to test the equations for …
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Japanese gapping in minimalist syntax
… an elliptical construction called Gapping in Japanese. Gapping is the omission of a predicate in clauses that are conjoined. The study focuses on capturing the correlation between Gapping and coordinate structures conjoined with the conjunction sosite 'and', which is not accounted for in …
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Universal Morality in Japanese Tradition
This thesis analyses the tension persisting in the debate on moral universalism versus cultural particularism by reassessing two common assumptions: 1) that traditions are either universal or particular, and 2) that persuasion is the appropriate method of cross-cultural conversation. Examining …
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American-Japanese Relations 1914-1917
… its China policy in the years since the Russo-Japanese War, friction was encountered from time to time between the Governments of Washington and Tokyo. Japan wanted to become a leading power in the Western Pacific and she had ambitions and plans of industrial and political expansion which …
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Japanese defense policy, 1945-1970
… end of the Occupation, the defence policy of the Japanese Government has been based on a bilateral security treaty with the United States. Japan has also built up substantial ground, sea and air forces. Yet the Japanese have taken no active part in regional defence organizations. In spite of her …
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Japanese defense policy, 1945-1970
… end of the Occupation, the defence policy of the Japanese Government has been based on a bilateral security treaty with the United States. Japan has also built up substantial ground, sea and air forces. Yet the Japanese have taken no active part in regional defence organizations. In spite of her …
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Japanese Nouns Koto and No
This dissertation demonstrates that koto and no are syntactically always a noun and an indefinite pronoun respectively. The diverse uses of koto and no are accounted for by whether or not the speaker believes the addressee believes the speaker believes that a proposition or an open proposition …
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Pragmatics and Grammatical Descriptions (Japanese)
The goal of the dissertation is to argue for the recent position that strictly distinguishes between grammar and pragmatics and discuss its consequences. By now it is clear that "raw" linguistic data contain many pragmatic elements, whether they are speech act properties, implicatures, beliefs and …
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A Study of Japanese Reflexivization
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Some Aspects of Japanese Nominalizations
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Tense and time in Japanese
… questions of tense and aspect in present-day Japanese, such as whether Japanese is an aspect language or a tense language or something else, what kinds of temporal relationships there are between the times indicated in the superordinate and subordinate clauses in the complex sentence, and what …
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Analysis of Japanese aircraft engine
Thesis (B.S.) Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, 1947.
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Generational change in Japanese nationalism
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Political Science, 1987.
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