COMPARATIVE STUDY OF KAKU JOSHI AND RENTAI JOSHI IN JAPANESE AND GIỚI TỪ IN VIETNAMESE
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https://doi.org/10.51453/3093-3706/2025/1370Keywords:
Preposition, Japanese particle, part-of-speech, particleAbstract
This article analyzes and compares Kaku-joshi and Rentai-joshi in Japanese with prepositions (giới từ) in Vietnamese from a part-of-speech perspective, focusing primarily on their syntactic functions. The study employs descriptive and contrastive linguistic methods to conduct the analysis. The results reveal that, in addition to several similarities, notable differences exist between these two grammatical categories. In terms of similarities, both Japanese joshi and Vietnamese prepositions can combine with nouns and are semantically empty elements that primarily serve grammatical functions within sentences. In terms of differences, Vietnamese prepositions may function as independent words in certain cases involving word-category shifts, whereas Kaku-joshi and Rentai-joshi in Japanese are invariably bound elements. Furthermore, Vietnamese prepositions typically connect constituents in a main–subordinate relationship, while Kaku-joshi in Japanese may, in some instances, also link nouns independently.
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