Questions tagged [linguistics]
言語学. The study of languages.
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When should I use あそこで / そこで?
I have the sentence from 合格できる、日本語能力試験N２:
私は外国旅行をするたび、「 」専門の勉強をしている日本人の若い学者に会うと、思いがけない収穫をえる。
The choices for the blank are A）あそこで B）そこで C）ここで D）どこかで
I narrowed it down to either A or B, but then ...
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Linguistics and Japanese study
Firstly, I apologise if this has been asked before or if I have asked this in the wrong place (should I have asked on the meta site?).
I've studied Japanese for (going on) 5 years, now. It's been ...
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動作 as opposed to 作用
The linguistics text I’m reading has a sentence with this fragment: 「動詞の表す動作・作用が[…]」。 Consulting dictionaries just made me more confused; what’s the contrast between the two in this context? “Action” ...
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Actual phonetic realization of "devoiced" vowels
Descriptions of Japanese phonology (such as Wikipedia's) usually describe high vowels between voiceless consonants (or word-finally) as "devoiced". For example, the pronunciation of ⟨圧⟩ 'pressure' and ...
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Is there a study available on the similarities between Japanese and Turkish grammars?
No I'm not claiming the Altaic hypothesis so try not to bring that up in answers.
Still there are grammatical similarities between Japanese and Turkish such as agglutination and use of postpositions ...
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Is Japanese really an agglutinative language?
In the linguistics topic of language typology, Japanese is often included in lists of agglutinative (or agglutinating) languages, but when learning or reading about Japanese grammar exclusively this ...
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Why does Japanese have two kinds of adjectives? (-i adjectives and -na adjectives)
Japanese has two kinds of adjectives known by several terms but the ones I know are i-adjectives and na-adjectives - why?
I recall that Japanese adjectives are much more like verbs than in English ...
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