Kundokubun, the linguistic variety that arose from transposing and reciting Sinitic texts in Japanese, is as old as the act of reading itself in Japan. The religious and political classes who learned, copied, and propagated Buddhist sutras during the Heian period (794–1185 CE) u…
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This ethnographic study focuses on the language socialization processes of six Indonesian and Filipino nurses working in Japan; these nurses came to Japan under the country's Economic Partnership Agreements (EPA) with Indonesia and the Philippines. After the establishment of the…
Nation-states and multinational corporations are the principal agents that comprise the international political economy. Yet, the pattern of bargaining between them has been severely understudied by international relations theorists. This study examines the evolution of risk dur…
This study examined the word recognition and word integration skills of Japanese and Arab ESL speakers who were enrolled in intermediate and advanced level courses in two pre-academic ESL program. The purpose for this study was to identify and examine the different types of read…
This thesis discusses the invasion and capture during mid-1944 of Biak Island, off the coast of New Guinea in the Southwest Pacific, by Allied forces under the command of General Douglas MacArthur. Conduct of the Biak operation was the responsibility of the Hurricane Task Force,…
Researchers, practitioners, and policy makers in the field of foreign language study in higher education in the United States are familiar with the phenomenon of declining numbers among learners in advanced foreign language courses. The studies that have examined this phenomenon…
In the current Minimalist framework (Chomsky 1995), the multiple subject construction (MSC) in Japanese is explained by the Case-based MSC parameter imposed on the category of T. However, this approach fails to reflect the layers of predication (Heycock 1994), which are the real…
The main purpose of the thesis is to explore the characteristics of politeness which are conveyed by the use of Japanese honorific forms (i.e honorific politeness). The perspective of the research is as follows: 1) the concept of politeness is regarded as being wider in scope th…
Studies of polarity-sensitive items (PSIs) such as English any have long focused on characterizing the contexts in which PSIs appear ('the licensing problem'). Recently, the focus has shifted to examining the lexical content of PSIs and deriving their limited distribution from t…
This thesis is a study of the inflection appearing on adjectives in Japanese. The goal of this work is to investigate the structure of adjectival constructions in Japanese and its relation to adjectival inflection. Chapter 1 reviews the general patterns of inflection appearing o…
After its devastating defeat in World War II, Japan rebuilt its economy in a remarkably short period of time and transformed itself into the second largest economy and the leading creditor nation in the world. In contrast, postwar Japan has refrained from becoming a major milita…
DISTRIBUTED MORPHOLOGY (DM) (Halle and Marantz, 1993) is a research program in morphology which abandons the traditional generative Lexicon (Chomsky, 1965 and 1995, among many). Recent work argues that all generative processes, including derivational morphology, can be accomplis…
This study was the first to evaluate the validity and reliability of molecular family stability as measured by a self-report instrument originally created for the U.S. population (Israel & Roderick, 2001), the Stability of Activities in the Family Environment (SAFE) measure, in …
This work is a systematic, cross-linguistic examination of speech errors in English, Hindi, Japanese, Spanish and Turkish. It first describes a methodology for the generation of parallel corpora of error data, then uses these data to examine three general hypotheses about the re…
This dissertation examines the relationship between language change and language acquisition, taking up the case of Japanese benefactive constructions. In my study, I call those constructions in which the Japanese giving and receiving verbs are used as an auxiliary verb to commu…
Japanese Soto Zen Buddhism underwent a period of challenge and change in the eighteenth century that enormously altered the doctrines and practices that had sustained it for hundreds of years. Menzan Zuiho, though one of the most illustrious writers and reformers of this period …
This dissertation examines how the representation of technology has been (re)producing, and/or (re)produced by, racial, ethnic, and national identities by drawing on "Japanese" as one concrete example. This examination entails three specific questions (1) how is "Japanese" repre…
This dissertation examines the principal Japanese translations of Arthur Waley (1889-1966): Japanese Poetry: The Uta (1919), The Nô Plays of Japan (1921), and The Tale of Genji (1925-33). These works have been overlooked as English literature of the British modern period, althou…