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that is used to express the meaning of 'although' by combining two sen-
tences.
2. The conjunction is normally used in written or formal, spoken Japanese.

3. When nagara is used as a disjunctive conjunction, the disjunctive mean-
ing is emphasized if mo is used. There are cases where nagara and
nagararno are used as a temporal 'while' and the disjunctive 'although,'
respectively, as shown in (la) and (lb).
(1) a. 4&l&@;kQfif% r"2 I. )ba);l S%%flZ 5 k Lko
(As he fell down, he tried to pull the pistol trigger.)
b. ~&l2@kLQf~~%6r"X I.)ba)3lS&B3lZ 5 2 Lk0
(Although he fell down, he tried to pull the pistol trigger.)
(+ nagara (DBJG: 269-70))
4. Probably because zannen nagara 'to one's regret' in Ex.(e) is an
idiomatic phrase, mo cannot be attached to it.

The crucial differences between nagara(mo), on one. hand and ga, keredo
(mo), noni, on the other hand, are: first, the latter can be used in both spoken
and written Japanese, whereas the former is normally used only in written or
formal spoken Japanese, 'and secondly, the latter has no restriction on the
choice of the subject, but the former normally takes the third person as the
subject, apparently because it is usually employed to give the speaker's
observation of, or opinion about, a third person. Thus, Ex.(l) cannot take the
first nor the second person pronouns.

b. {@/&a7':/@1 i2B$-mEhqT;iTb>& {tJf/Lth2/@
I:}, El$.;gF$L $%-eh~/>~
(+ ga (DBJG: 120-23); keredo(mo) (DBJG: 187-88); noni (DBJG: 331-35))
However, there are cases in which the first person is used as in Exs.(e) and
(j).