Predicates In Japanese Research Articles

Personal-evaluation secondary predicates in Japanese and quirky experiencer raising

Personal-evaluation secondary predicates in Japanese and quirky experiencer raising

The Syntax of Manner Adverbs and Resultative Predicates in Japanese

The Syntax of Manner Adverbs and Resultative Predicates in Japanese

Study of Subjectivity and Inter-subjectivity in Japanese Predicate : From Ellipses and Explicit of Predicate

Study of Subjectivity and Inter-subjectivity in Japanese Predicate : From Ellipses and Explicit of Predicate

A contrastive study of sentence-final nominal predicates in Japanese and Korean: With a particular attention to “moyoo-da” and “moyang-ita”

A contrastive study of sentence-final nominal predicates in Japanese and Korean: With a particular attention to “moyoo-da” and “moyang-ita”

述語と項の位置関係ごとの候補比較による日本語述語項構造解析

述語と項の位置関係ごとの候補比較による日本語述語項構造解析

Japanese Predicate Cleft Constructions as a Morphological Reduplication

Japanese Predicate Cleft Constructions as a Morphological Reduplication

The interactional origin of nominal predicate structure in Japanese: A comparative and historical pragmatic perspective

Nominalization plays an important interactional role in East Asian languages. Informed and guided by the collective insight from Typological and Emancipatory Pragmatic approaches to grammar, this paper presents a comparative and historical pragmatic analysis of the preference for sentence-final nominal predicates in Japanese and addresses its communicative/interactional motivation.

Transitivity of ergative case-marking predicates in Japanese

In this article, I argue that ergative case-marking predicates in Japanese, which take two non-canonically case-marked arguments, are best described as transitive predicates having subjects and direct objects, rather than as intransitive predicates without any direct objects — contrary to Shibatani’s recent proposal (Shibatani 1999, 2001a, b, Shibatani and Pardeshi 2001). More specifically, ergative case-marking predicates are argued to be transitive, as originally conceived by Kuno (1973) and others, on the basis that outer dative/nominative phrases display subject properties, while inner nominative phrases exhibit positive object properties. Furthermore, it is argued that ergative case-marking constructions do not constitute a sub-type of double subject construction by showing that they are licensed in a different way.

Case marking of objects of Stative predicates in Japanese*

While the objects of most transitive predicates in Japanese are marked exclusively with the accusative case particle, those of many stative predicates can appear with either the accusative or the nominative particle. A variety of observations and explanations regarding this alternation have been put forward in the past. In this paper the focus of the discussion is on the role played by the degree of transitivity of the proposition in influencing the choice of object‐marking particle: the higher the transitivity, the more likely it is that the accusative particle will be used; the lower the transitivity, the more likely that the nominative will occur. The significance of factors such as the nature of the predicate and its inherent transitivity, the degree of intention of the subject, and the degree of individuation of the object are considered in particular. Two facets of the alternation—the fact that these objects can be marked nominatively at all, and the importance of the feature of intention of the subject—are discussed within the broader context of the characteristics of transitivity in Japanese.

Grammar, with attitude: on the expressivity of certain da sentences in Japanese

This paper investigates the Japanese predicate da as a device for linguistic expressivity. Based on examples taken from Japanese comics and novels, it is argued that da functions, not only as a copulative predicate but also, and more relevant to this study, as a modality indicator signaling the speaker's conclusive and assertive attitude toward his or her own verbal performance. These functions are connected, in part, to da's fundamental indexical capacity to express stativity and to communicate the speaker's general situational assessment. The indexical meaning, which is inter-actionally motivated as well as dialogically and contextually interpreted, offers a ready means for emotional expressivity associated with da. The paper emphasizes the importance of investigating the expressivity of a grammatical device even when such device is seemingly unrelated to the attitudinal meaning. The paper also raises a theoretical point that certain grammatical devices must be viewed, first and foremost, as being attitudinal, and their indexical meanings must be understood in the context of real-life communication. Accordingly, contrary to the commonly held view, one must consider, at least in certain cases, the modal expressive meaning as being primary and its abstract propositional meaning secondary

The grammar of mental predicates in Japanese

The current NSM theory regards six mental predicates— think, know, want, see, hear and feel—as indefinable semantic universals. This paper examines the syntax of their Japanese exponents ( omou, sit-te iru, -tai/hosii, miru, kiku and kimoti). Special attention is paid to the syntax and semantics of major complementation types ( S no, S koto and S to) found with the majority of these predicates. It is shown that each primitive predicate has a specific set of syntactic frames in which the primitive meaning is expressed, and that the extended meanings which may be expressed in other syntactic environments are specifiable by reductive paraphrase explications.

Sentential Predicates in Japanese

Sentential Predicates in Japanese

A Categorial Analysis of Morphologically Complex Predicates in Japanese(II)

A Categorial Analysis of Morphologically Complex Predicates in Japanese(II)

A Categorial Analysis of Morphologically Complex Predicates in Japanese (I)

A Categorial Analysis of Morphologically Complex Predicates in Japanese (I)