Trends in Japanese Language Studies : from Comparative to Typological

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The key-note speech on the first international workshop held at the Graduate Schoolof Letters,University of Hokkaido is reported. Researchers on Japanese language are demandedto see the language in a broader linguistic perspective, that is, from not only comparative buttypological viewpoint. Typological viewpoints lead us to new comparative concepts. Thereduplicative form of Japanese nouns can be an explicit point of the number system, althoughJapanese are implicit in the number system. Moreover, ancient Japanese may have a dualnumber system at least on the body-part nouns. Numeratives have been considered as classifiers.But we can find another type of classifiers such as onomatopea “koro-koro/goro-goro”withtypological comparing to American-Indian languages. The linguistic contact between Koreanand Japanese are typologically considered. The loan type in Korea changed from “intimate”to“cultural”at the liberation from Japan’s colony. The“language purification movement”huntedJapanese loanwords, but some words pronounced similarly to Chinese-origin ones are left andKorean people feel them as native Korean words. A few affixes borrowed from English aremodified to fit the pronunciation of Korean native affixes.
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