Change and variation in ga/no conversion in Tokyo Japanese

Nambu, Satoshi; Matsuda, Kenjiro

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“…Following Nambu (2007) and Nambu and Matsuda (2007) There has been an argument that NGA can be observed in clauses other than adnominal clauses (Hiraiwa 2001;Miyagawa to appear;Yoshimura and Nishina 2008). I included additional environments that have been raised in the literature to observe uses of the variation.…”

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“…To verify Harada's language change hypothesis, Nambu (2007) and Nambu and Matsuda (2007) extracted uses of the variants ga and no from speech by all Diet members, who are native speakers of Tokyo Japanese, from the MJD corpus (76 speakers, 100 tokens from each speaker, 7,600 tokens in total). From the CSJ corpus, I extracted data from speech by all native speakers of Tokyo Japanese available in the corpus (80 speakers).…”

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“…Figure 1 from Nambu and Matsuda (2007) presents the rate of no from 1870 to 1970 with respect to speakers' birth years. In the graph, each speaker is represented by a point which contains 100 tokens of the variants.…”

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“…Figure 1: Scatterplot of the rate of no in the MJD corpus (Nambu and Matsuda 2007) The data from the CSJ corpus is given in Figure 2. Because of the information available in the corpus, the speakers' birth years are given at 5-year intervals.…”

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In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt:Based on his grammaticality judgment test, Harada (1971) claimed that there is an ongoing change, whereby the speakers of Tokyo Japanese increasingly prefer ga to no in relevant environments. In this paper, I present a quantitative analysis using the Corpus of Spontaneous Japanese. The goal of this study is not only to validate the ﬁndings in Nambu (2007) and Nambu and Matsuda (2007), but also to give another perspective on the variation.

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Japanese subject markers in linguistic change: A quantitative analysis of data spanning 90 years and its theoretical implications

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Based on a statistical analysis of a corpus data from the period of 1915–2005, this article discusses two variants for a subject marker in Japanese, and argues that it is a case of linguistic change in progress. While representing effects of three linguistic factors on the use of the variants, the chronological observation of each factor revealed that this phenomenon demonstrates the Constant Rate Effect. The quantitative data also provides firm evidence for effects of other independent diachronic changes on the current phenomenon, pushing the change further by shrinking the linguistic environment for the dying-out variant. Dissecting the relationship between those diachronic changes and the current phenomenon in a quantitative manner, the findings of the study reveal that the two competing hypotheses in theoretical syntax properly capture the essential syntactic properties of the phenomenon in the contemporary Japanese and the discrepancy of the two accounts is attributable to their data reflecting a different stage of its ongoing change.

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Change and variation in ga/no conversion in Tokyo Japanese

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A Quantitative Analysis of Nominative/Genitive Alternation in Japanese

A Quantitative Analysis of Nominative/Genitive Alternation in Japanese

Japanese subject markers in linguistic change: A quantitative analysis of data spanning 90 years and its theoretical implications

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