Abstract
This article is devoted to the analysis of the anaphoric usage of some Japanese units (copulas, nominalizers, demonstrative pronouns) at the semantic and syntactic levels. The study of anaphoric relations in the language in general and in individual languages in particular is of great interest to linguists conducting research in various areas of modern linguistics. Anaphora has been studied by functional linguists, cognitive linguists, psycholinguists, etc. Anaphoric relations have been described not only in the sentence, but also in the text. Now information about the use of anaphoric means at the level of discourse is considered to be one of the mandatory elements of a comprehensive description of the language or its pronominal system. Pronouns are given special attention, since they function as substitute words and help to make our speech more concise. Anaphoric demonstrative pronouns are used as connecting elements in the text and form intertextual links. They show that there is a predicate that identifies the previous and subsequent fragments of the utterance. Our approach can be characterized as an integral one. We attempt to present a complex description of the usage of anaphoric units in the Japanese language specifying their morphological, syntactic, semantic, pragmatic and communicative properties.
Highlights
Anaphora is treated here as such a relation between linguistic expressions when the meaning paradigm of one expression contains a reference to another one
Anaphoric reference appears when there is no direct syntactical connection, i.e. anaphora is about additional semantic connection with no structural correspondence
The class of formal words of the Japanese language presupposes the existence of copulas
Summary
Anaphora is treated here as such a relation between linguistic expressions when the meaning paradigm of one expression contains a reference to another one. Anaphoric reference appears when there is no direct syntactical connection, i.e. anaphora is about additional semantic connection with no structural correspondence. Anaphora is not limited by the frames of a simple or a composite sentence, it often goes beyond. An anaphoric word can determine the semantic link between two sentences that are not connected syntactically. This link connects the following sentence with the preceding one. In this sentence the anaphoric structure is presented by two expressions that are related to the same referent
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