Linguistic Elements Association with the Presence of Particle WA and GA in Japanese Sentences and Their Indonesian Translation

Abstract

This title of this paper is Linguistic Elements Association with the Presence of particle WA and GA in Japanese Sentences. The method used in this research is descriptive with distributional study technique of deletion, substitution, and insertion. I apply theories from Nitta (2009) of shudai (topic) and kaisetsu (comment). The aim of this paper is to analyze the linguistic elements associated with presence of WA and GA particles. This paper shows that linguistic elements associated with the presence of WA and GA particles discussed in this research are subject, object for certain predicates, and topic. By examining linguistic elements associated with the particles, Indonesian Japanese language learners will be able to understand the problematic WA and GA particles usage in Japanese sentences.