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@article{ART002090439},
author={Park, Hyokyung},
title={The change of usage of 'desu' in the Meiji era},
journal={The Japanese Language Association of Korea},
issn={1229-7275},
year={2016},
number={47},
pages={3-21}

TY - JOUR
AU - Park, Hyokyung
TI - The change of usage of 'desu' in the Meiji era
JO - The Japanese Language Association of Korea
PY - 2016
VL - null
IS - 47
PB - The Japanese Language Association Of Korea
SP - 3
EP - 21
SN - 1229-7275
AB - The purpose of this study is to investigate the use of 'desu' in the Meiji era, based on data of the colloquial style. Meiji was a transitional period when a writing style of modern Japanese was being established, and when a colloquial style had been changed a lot. In particular, colloquial 'desu' was the expression that changed most. In this study, I summarized data of the colloquial style in the Meiji period, and extracted the text which used 'desu' from each document. After that, I classified the data into 3 groups; noun sentences, verb sentences, and adjective sentences. There was no usage of 'desu' in newspapers, documents for speech and documents for enlightenment in the Meiji period. There were a lot of instances of 'desu' in Rakugo and novels which were divided into two parts, a conversation part and a narrative part, but its conjugated forms were quite different from those in contemporary Japanese. With regard to its conjugation, 'desu' was sometimes combined with the root verb, and was not combined with adjectives. The phrase 'desu' was only connected to substantives before the Meiji era, but was also connected to predicates in the Meiji era.
KW - 'desu’;A colloquial style of modern Japanese;The end of sentence expression;Meiji era
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Park, Hyokyung. (2016). The change of usage of 'desu' in the Meiji era. The Japanese Language Association of Korea, 47, 3-21.

Park, Hyokyung. 2016, "The change of usage of 'desu' in the Meiji era", The Japanese Language Association of Korea, no.47, pp.3-21.

Park, Hyokyung "The change of usage of 'desu' in the Meiji era" The Japanese Language Association of Korea 47 pp.3-21 (2016) : 3.

Park, Hyokyung. The change of usage of 'desu' in the Meiji era. 2016; 47 : 3-21.

Park, Hyokyung. "The change of usage of 'desu' in the Meiji era" The Japanese Language Association of Korea no.47(2016) : 3-21.

Park, Hyokyung. The change of usage of 'desu' in the Meiji era. The Japanese Language Association of Korea, 47, 3-21.

Park, Hyokyung. The change of usage of 'desu' in the Meiji era. The Japanese Language Association of Korea. 2016; 47 3-21.

Park, Hyokyung. The change of usage of 'desu' in the Meiji era. 2016; 47 : 3-21.

Park, Hyokyung. "The change of usage of 'desu' in the Meiji era" The Japanese Language Association of Korea no.47(2016) : 3-21.