Lecture Title: Conditional Expressions in Japanese
Lecturer: Xu Xiuzi
Time: September 23, Wednesday, 2020, 15:00
Location: 2B101, Teaching Building
Lecturer Profile:
Xu Xiuzi, graduated from Tongji University, College of Foreign Languages, majoring in Foreign Linguistics and Applied Linguistics, Ph.D. She was a visiting scholar at Kobe University, Japan, from February 2014 to February 2015. Her research interests are Japanese linguistics and Japanese-Chinese comparative linguistics. She is in charge of the Shanghai Maritime University School Fund Project, the Comprehensive Reform of Degree and Postgraduate Education Project, the National Research Project on Foreign Language Teaching and Learning in Colleges and Universities of the China Foreign Language Teaching Materials and Teaching Methods Research Center of Shanghai Foreign Language Education Press, and the Fleeco Digital Resources Sharing Special Project of Shanghai Foreign Language Education Press. She has published more than 30 papers (including core journals) and participated in several projects such as the Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press Chinese and Foreign Multilingual Dictionary Database (Japanese).
Lecture Introduction:
Typical conditional expressions in Japanese are と, ば, たら, なら, etc. They are used in various senses and form a close relationship with each other. Some of them can be interchanged in some sentences, but sometimes they cannot be interchanged, or there is a difference in the sense of the interchange. Therefore, Japanese conditional expressions have always been one of the key points and difficulties in Japanese language learning. This lecture explains the usage of と, ば, たら and なら in terms of assumptions, general conditions and definite conditions, the characteristics of their usage, restrictions, whether or not question words can appear in the preceding and following items, and the identification of similarities and differences.
