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(el tlo~$uit&i fit: < < , BfS LIZ < ra.
(World peace is hard to achieve and hard to maintain.)
+9a(L+ L ti SL L i d~hlt~
a+
(n h~wso~aaii$o (, a 9imrr2,
(That philosopher's ideas are easy to understand and his writing is sim-
ple, too.)
(A3 ihTL Lv-h
#o&gfi& ( , $o$3$i;;3Pk2fz3
(g)
(Last winter there was much snow and it was hard to drive around.)
bf;~ Ldiw h't
(h] giaxafim~(, %$~wztt&i&btab~
(I'm afraid of failure, and I can't do anything new.)
Bb~shh:
(i) $$jid=A~bah O&L ( , t~$g2&Jba~4f<~
(Yoko felt lonely living alone, so she got a pet cat recently.)
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1. Adj(i)stem ku is used in written Japanese to function as a continuative
form. When the ku-form connects two predicates, the relationship
between the two is either a cumulative relationship as in KS(A) and
Exs.(a) - (f) or a cause / reason relationship as in KS(B) and Exs.(g) -
(i).
2. As the following examples show it appears that the compound adjective
Vrnasu tai cannot be used to express a cause 1 reason relationship as
shown in (I), although other compound adjectives can be used that way
as shown in (2).
IL IfL 5e-5 L*? lfh
(1) a. it b90~ R2ffi EL~L < , ba < ~$~ffi~f$~:%,%
L-ckl<,
(I want to publish my own research so I contacted several
publishers.)