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A Quantitative Study of Gender Differences in the Ellipsis of the Japanese Postpositional Particles "-wa" and -"ga": Gender Composition as a Constraint on Variability.
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Takano, Shoji – Language Variation and Change, 1998
Focuses on gender-related variation in the ellipsis of the nominative particle "ga" and the topic market "wa" in Japanese. (Author/VWL)
Descriptors: Japanese, Language Variation, Prepositions, Statistical Analysis
Dissecting Analogical Leveling Quantitatively: The Case of the Innovative Potential Suffix in Tokyo Japanese.
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Matsuda, Kenjiro – Language Variation and Change, 1993
Analogical leveling in progress of a potential suffix in Tokyo Japanese is analyzed within a quantitative model. The phenomenon is shown to be controlled by five factors: sociological variable complex, verb stem length, verb conjugation pattern, the following inflectional form, and embeddedness of the clause containing the suffix. (Contains 70…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Japanese, Language Usage, Predictor Variables