Browsing by Subject "Japanese"

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    (Voices from the Gaps, 2005) Smith, Tara L
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    Ellipsis involving verbs in Japanese.
    (2009-08) Buchanan, Michiko Todokoro
    This dissertation presents a study of Japanese verb ellipsis that involves the copula da. My focus is on the copula structures where a sequence of elements including a verb is missing, yet the meaning of the sequence is recoverble. I address the following questions: how is the presence of the copula accounted for; what conditions allow this phenomenon; how is the meaning recovered? I investigate three types of verb ellipsis. (i) Structures where a DP with a marker (e.g., focus markers) is followed by the copula. (ii) Structures where an adverbial is followed by the copula. (iii) Structures where a DP without a marker is followed by the copula. The appearance of the copula suggests that clefting is involved in the ellipsis in question. Building on previous studies on Japanese Sluicing (e.g., Nishiyama 1995, Hiraiwa and Ishihara 2000), I propose that (i) and (ii) are derived from it's that-cleft (CP-focused Cleft), and that (iii) is derived from wh-cleft (DP-focused Cleft). The former type of ellipsis is referred to as CP-focused Clefted Ellipsis, the latter DP-focused Clefted Ellipsis. In the investigation of what allows verb ellipsis, I observe that case markers, focus markers (e.g., -mo 'also/too'), at all type of adverbial Negative Polarity Items, quantificational adverbial Positive Polarity Items, and the continuation-of-state aspectual adverbial mada 'yet/still' allow elements including a verb to be elided. Building on Lopez and Winkler's (2000) proposal that affirmative/negative expressions license VP ellipsis, I propose that linguistic materials which allow ellipsis are [+AFF] or [+NEG] and license ellipsis. Application of Hankamar and Sag's (1976) criteria of anaphora to the Japanese verb ellipsis indicates that CP-focused Clefted Ellipsis is Surface Anaphora, which requires a linguistic antecedent, and DP-focused Clefted Ellipsis is Deep Anaphora, where a linguistic antecedent is not required and the meaning is recovered pragmatically. This suggests that these two types of verb ellipsis have different structures. Based on the observation that CP-focused Clefted Sluicing is island sensitive and DP-focused Clefted Sluicing is not, I propose that elliptical sites of CP-focused Clefted Ellipsis have internal structures and those of DP-focused Clefted Ellipsis are base-generated pro.
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    Families precede nation and race?: marriage, migration, and integration of Japanese war brides after World War II.
    (2010-08) Nakamura, Masako
    Unlike other war brides of World War II, the international and interracial marriages between Japanese women and U.S. servicemen, which were seen as the products and symbols of the U.S. occupation, posed distinct challenges to the American and Japanese state and, in particular, to the image of American families at home and abroad. This dissertation examines how these Japanese women were treated as a "problem" by American and Japanese societies and how the "problem" was approached through diverse but intertwined sites, venues, and agents such as legal discourse, American Red Cross brides' schools in Japan, social science studies, and Japanese War Brides Club at the International Institute in San Francisco, in the late 1940s and 1950s. It also examines how these women responded to those approaches, how they remembered their experiences, and their ongoing transnational relationships with their two home countries, Japan and the United States. I argue that Japanese war brides, who were the majority of not only Asian war brides, but also postwar Japanese immigrants, played a key role in redefining the "American family" and concepts of race and citizenship. They became central to the debate about the makeup of the "ideal American family" and led to changes in postwar U.S. immigration policy as well as popular and scholarly understandings of not only "Japanese war brides" but also interracial marriages. Disciplining these ex-enemy nationals, who were considered to be racially inassimilable and ineligible for citizenship, into good wives and mothers of U.S. citizens became an important mission for Americans in the United States and Japan during the rise of the Cold War. Their "successful" marriages and integration became a display of American racial tolerance in early Cold War America. As a result, the image of these women shifted from a "problem" to a showcase of ideal, "model minority" brides. These Japanese women, both individually and collectively, played a significant part in changing American and Japanese perceptions of "Japanese war brides" and interracial marriage since they had made their decisions to marry U.S. servicemen and immigrate to the United States as young women.
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    Historical Essay: Ayako Ishigaki (1903-1996)
    (Voices from the Gaps, 2004) Boone, Karen
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    Naoko Takeuchi
    (Voices from the Gaps, 2005) Fox, Emily; Makousky, Nadia; Polvi, Amanda; Sorensen, Taylor
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    Review of Restless Wave: My Life in Two Worlds by Ayako Ishigaki
    (Voices from the Gaps, 2005) Boone, Karen; Fosse, BreAnn; Diedrichsen, Stacie
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    Review of The Heart of Hyacinth by Onoto Watanna (Winnifred Eaton)
    (Voices from the Gaps, 2005) Shudy, Marysia; Lindgren, Lindsay