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Differences in Preference between the Cleft Construction, Non-cleft Construction, and “noda” Construction
Get PDFThis study is based on the investigation of the Chinese-Japanese Bilingual Corpus. My investigation shows that in Chinese and Japanese language there are different constructions even though they are used to express the same situation. In Chinese, the cleft construction “…de shi…” is not always translated into the Japanese cleft construction “…nowa…da”, but sometimes is translated as the “noda” construction or non-cleft construction. The difference in preference depends on the differences in focused elements, word order, and subjectivity between the two languages
