Japanese Expressions that Include English Expressions
Masaki Murata, Toshiyuki Kanamaru, Koichirou Nakamoto, Katsunori Kotani, Hitoshi Isahara · Institutional Repositories DataBase (IRDB) · 2007
We extracted English expressions that appear Japanese sentences newspaper articles and on the Internet. The results obtained from the newspaper articles showed that the preposition in has been regularly used for more than ten years, and it is still regularly used now. The results obtained from the Internet articles showed there were many kinds of English expressions from various parts of speech. We extracted some interesting expressions that included English prepositions and verb phrases. These were interesting because they had different word orders to the normal order Japanese expressions. Comparing the extracted English and katakana expressions, we found that the expressions that are commonly used Japanese are often written the katakana syllabary and that the expressions that are not so often used Japanese, such as prepositions, are hardly ever written the katakana syllabary. Keyword: English expression, katakana expression, newspaper article, Internet