Tense And Aspect In Old Japanese Synchronic Diachronic And Typological Perspective
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Author | : Kazuha Watanabe |
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Total Pages | : 246 |
Release | : 2008 |
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ISBN | : 9780549967927 |
The objective of this thesis is to describe the synchronic system of tense and aspect in Old Japanese. Japanese grammarians studying the tense/aspect morphology of Old Japanese usually identify four suffixes ( -(ye) ri, -tari, -tu, and -nu) as kanryo 'perfect' markers and two suffixes ( -ki and -kyeri) as past tense markers. However, this analysis results in a typologically unattested temporal system, characterized by an implausibly rich inventory occupying a small semantic space. The traditional analysis is the product of an approach focusing on identifying the meanings of the suffixes based on contextual information, rather than the syntactic distribution of the suffixes with respect to the lexical semantics of the co-occurring verbs and the overall synchronic system of the language. Furthermore, previous analyses have attempted to produce a uniform analysis covering the entire 700-year period from Old to Early Modern Japanese.
Author | : Kazuha Watanabe |
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Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2008 |
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The objective of this thesis is to describe the synchronic system of tense and aspect in Old Japanese. Japanese grammarians studying the tense/aspect morphology of Old Japanese usually identify four suffixes (-(ye)ri, -tari, -tu, and -nu) as kanryō 'perfect' markers and two suffixes (-ki and -kyeri) as past tense markers. However, this analysis results in a typologically unattested temporal system, characterized by an implausibly rich inventory occupying a small semantic space. The traditional analysis is the product of an approach focusing on identifying the meanings of the suffixes based on contextual information, rather than the syntactic distribution of the suffixes with respect to the lexical semantics of the co-occurring verbs and the overall synchronic system of the language. Furthermore, previous analyses have attempted to produce a uniform analysis covering the entire 700-year period from Old to Early Modern Japanese. In contrast to previous research, I first define the semantic properties of the aspectual markers and their relation to the lexical verb, using data from well-attested languages. Second, I identify the aspectual meaning of the suffixes and the four periphrastic constructions based on the semantic values of the verbs they co-occur with in the Man'yōshū. Third, I integrate these findings into the overall synchronic tense-aspect system of Old Japanese. I propose that Old Japanese had a perfectiveimperfective distinction in both past and non-past tenses. Perfective was marked by - tu and -nu, which were subject to a syntactic auxiliary selection constraint, while present imperfective was marked by -(ye)ri and past imperfective by -kyeri. Additionally, -tari and the periphrastics indicated specific aspectual meanings: resultative and progressive. I then compare this synchronic system with the tenseaspect systems of well-attested languages in order to confirm the typological plausibility of the proposed system. Lastly, I examine data from Early Modern Japanese using Genji Monogatari and compare the results with the Old Japanese data. The diachronic change from Old Japanese to Early Modern Japanese provides further support for my synchronic analysis of Old Japanese.
Author | : Kazuha Watanabe |
Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | : 211 |
Release | : 2021-03-23 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 1793614431 |
Diachrony, Synchrony, and Typology of Tense and Aspect in Old Japanese reconstructs the synchronic system of tense and aspect in Old Japanese, which until now had not been examined using the tools of contemporary linguistic theory. Kazuha Watanabe analyzes syntactic distribution of the temporal suffixes in the Man'yōshū, an eighth-century poetry collection, and compares the results with data from well-attested languages. The author then integrates the semantic property of each suffix into the overall synchronic tense-aspect system of Old Japanese. Watanabe further compares the reconstructed system with the distributions of the same suffixes in Early Modern Japanese using Genji Monogatari, an eleventh-century novel, in order to provide further support for the synchronic analysis of Old Japanese. This approach is fundamentally different from traditional analyses, which identify the meanings of the temporal suffixes based on contextual information. In addition, previous analyses have produced a uniform analysis covering the entire 700-year period from Old to Early Modern Japanese. Instead, Watanabe proposes that Old Japanese had a temporal system distinct from the later period.
Author | : Gunther De Vogelaer |
Publisher | : John Benjamins Publishing |
Total Pages | : 305 |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9027205957 |
Much theorizing in language change research is made without taking into account dialect data. Yet, dialects seem to be superior data to build a theory of linguistic change on, since dialects are relatively free of standardization and therefore more tolerant of variant competition in grammar. In addition, as compared to most cross-linguistic and diachronic data, dialect data are unusually high in resolution. This book shows that the study of dialect variation has indeed the potential, perhaps even the duty, to play a central role in the process of finding answers to fundamental questions of theoretical historical linguistics. It includes contributions which relate a clearly formulated theoretical question of historical linguistic interest with a well-defined, solid empirical base. The volume discusses phenomena from different domains of grammar (phonology, morphology and syntax) and a wide variety of languages and language varieties in the light of several current theoretical frameworks.
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Total Pages | : 546 |
Release | : 2009-06 |
Genre | : Dissertations, Academic |
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Author | : Janick Wrona |
Publisher | : Global Oriental |
Total Pages | : 552 |
Release | : 2017-05-15 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 900421318X |
The present study is the first large-scale investigation of the syntax of Old Japanese (mainly eighth-century Japanese). It gives a detailed account of complement clauses and related constructions in Old Japanese, based on an exhaustive investigation of the extant text corpus.
Author | : Daniel Trott |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 417 |
Release | : 2014 |
Genre | : Historical linguistics |
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Author | : Janet Zhiqun Xing |
Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Total Pages | : 476 |
Release | : 2020-01-20 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 3110637421 |
"Based on comparative analyses of diachronic data, the articles in this volume address both theoretical and methodological issues in the study of grammaticalization and lexicalization in both Eastern and Western languages. The central question raised and discussed in this volume is how, if any, typological properties of the two genetically unrelated language families interact with the processes of grammaticalization and lexicalization."--
Author | : Foong Ha Yap |
Publisher | : John Benjamins Publishing |
Total Pages | : 818 |
Release | : 2011-06-29 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9027287244 |
Research on nominalization, a process that gives rise to referring expressions, has always played a central role in linguistic investigations. Over the years there has also been growing evidence that nominalization constructions often extend to non-referential domains. They participate in noun-modifying expressions (e.g. genitive and relative clauses), subordinate clauses and topic constructions, finite structures with the nominalizers reanalyzed as TAM markers, and stance constructions with evaluative, attitudinal, evidential and epistemic overtones. This volume brings together historical and crosslinguistic evidence from more than 20 different languages representing six different language families spanning the Asian continent and the Pacific and Indian oceans to elucidate the strategies and grammaticalization pathways that give rise to both referential and non-referential uses of nominalization constructions. This collection highlights the diversity of strategies and at the same time the robust cyclical nature of change within and across languages. The combined diachronic and typological analyses in this volume are particularly valuable for linguistic research on diachronic morphosyntax and linguistic ‘universals’, and are also an important supplementary cross-referencing tool for linguistic investigations of versatile and ubiquitous morphemes in under-documented languages.
Author | : Kees Hengeveld |
Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Total Pages | : 308 |
Release | : 2017-09-11 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 3110517426 |
This book brings together a series of contributions to the study of grammaticalization of tense, aspect, and modality from a functional perspective. All contributions share the aim to uncover the functional motivations behind the processes of grammaticalization under discussion, but they do so from different points of view.