A COMPARATIVE STUDY FOR JAPANESE IN LEARNING ENGLISH

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  • 日英両国語比較 (XXIV)
  • ニチエイ リョウ コクゴ ヒカク 24
  • Comparative Study for Japanese in Learning English

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Language was intented for all who use it as a means of inspired and realistic communication with one another. In this paper the first inspired “SPEAKING verb” was taken out from the Bible and surveyed in terms of semantic roles and grammatical relations. Wondering about what each word linking together means, we see word by word in relation to the whole. In the case of English grammar, the clause was converted from the Direct Speech to the Indirect Speech according to the theory of conversion of Voice. In the form of Indirect Speech of biblical English, that--clause beginning with there is the subordinate clause, which is a constituent of or depends on its superordinate, while this that--clause becomes a constituent of or dependent on its superordinate clause ending with the SPEAKING verb. Such a sentence--like construction included within another sentence is what we call “EMBEDDING” in terms of generative grammar. In the sentence of English there is a superordinate related to another clause in the whole sentence as a MATRIX SENTENCE. In grammatical theory there must be a relatinship between two clauses as a relation of part to whole. The that clause beginning with there is what we call EXISTENTIAL there--clause. In this paper it is insisted that that Existential there cannot be used as subject in any case. Some grammarians say that that Existential there can be used as subject. An approach to Existential there of CGEL researched and presented by RQ., SG., GL. and JS. is presented here.The formula of the Existential clause beginning with there is converted from the basic or original clause. In this essay it is claimed that the basic function of the word there is a part of speech or word class which modifies verbs, adjectives and other adverbs. We discussed the problem of the subject in the existential sentence with there and we noticed that we must look more carefully into this problem in the case of“the subject in the existential sentence.”The word there itself is primarily the meaning of location and function of adverb.

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