Deictic and anaphoric uses of the Japanese demonstratives ko-so-a
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Yoko Hasegawa
Abstract
This paper analyzes the ko-so-a demonstratives in Japanese as they occur in experimentally-obtained soliloquy data. In soliloquy, the Japanese deixis system consists of a two-way opposition, viz. ko- vs. a-. So- appears only as an anaphor; its antecedent can be either familiar or unfamiliar to the speaker, contrary to Kuno’s (1973) analysis. It is also argued that ko- and a- are always deictic in soliloquy. Adopting Chafe’s (1994) theory of consciousness, it is hypothesized that (i) a- is used when the referent is in the speaker’s peripheral consciousness, and (ii) ko- is used to refer to an entity if it is already focused at the moment of speech. Finally, it is demonstrated that so- and a- exhibit the attributive-referential distinction, which is proposed by Donnellan (1966).
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Artikel in diesem Heft
- Journal of Japanese Linguistics Vol. 28 (2012). Contents
- Introduction
- Diversity and uniformity of grammar: When ungrammatical expressions become grammatical
- Benjamin Smith Lyman as a phonetician
- Deictic and anaphoric uses of the Japanese demonstratives ko-so-a
- Three uses of kata ‘person’ in Japanese
- An investigation into the interaction between intentionality and the use of transitive/ intransitive expression: A contrastive study of Japanese and Marathi
- Zibun and locality in L2 Japanese
- Pronominal interpretations in L2 Japanese
Artikel in diesem Heft
- Journal of Japanese Linguistics Vol. 28 (2012). Contents
- Introduction
- Diversity and uniformity of grammar: When ungrammatical expressions become grammatical
- Benjamin Smith Lyman as a phonetician
- Deictic and anaphoric uses of the Japanese demonstratives ko-so-a
- Three uses of kata ‘person’ in Japanese
- An investigation into the interaction between intentionality and the use of transitive/ intransitive expression: A contrastive study of Japanese and Marathi
- Zibun and locality in L2 Japanese
- Pronominal interpretations in L2 Japanese
