Chapter 4. Reanalysis and the emergence of adverbial connectors in the history of Japanese
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Reijirou Shibasaki
Abstract
This study deals with issues related to the development of stand-alone adverbial connectors such as totan(-ni), shunkan(-ni), hyoosi(-ni), and yasaki(-ni) in sentence-initial position in the history of Japanese. These adverbial connectors, which can be witnessed from the early twentieth century, developed from the erstwhile head of adnominal clauses through a series of steps, i.e. reanalysis. The adverbial connectors under investigation here serve to anticipate more to come in the following discourse, labeled projectors by Hopper and Thompson (2008). In a nutshell, the emergence of adverbial connectors involves an increase in structural scope over a stretch of discourse.
Abstract
This study deals with issues related to the development of stand-alone adverbial connectors such as totan(-ni), shunkan(-ni), hyoosi(-ni), and yasaki(-ni) in sentence-initial position in the history of Japanese. These adverbial connectors, which can be witnessed from the early twentieth century, developed from the erstwhile head of adnominal clauses through a series of steps, i.e. reanalysis. The adverbial connectors under investigation here serve to anticipate more to come in the following discourse, labeled projectors by Hopper and Thompson (2008). In a nutshell, the emergence of adverbial connectors involves an increase in structural scope over a stretch of discourse.
Chapters in this book
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents v
- Grammar, discourse, and the grammar-discourse interface 1
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Part I. Discourse markers
- Chapter 1. On the rise of discourse markers 23
- Chapter 2. On the pragmatic development of modal particles in Navarrese-Lapurdian Basque 57
- Chapter 3. On divergent paths and functions of ‘background’-based discourse markers in Korean 77
- Chapter 4. Reanalysis and the emergence of adverbial connectors in the history of Japanese 101
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Part II. Discourse markers
- Chapter 5. The meaning and functions of French je pense (que) 127
- Chapter 6. Discourse markers and brain lateralization 157
- Chapter 7. Vietnamese expletive between grammatical subject and subjectivity marker 195
- Chapter 8. The final particle like in Northern English 229
- Chapter 9. On pragma-semantics of expressives 245
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Part III. Discourse-related grammatical phenomena
- Chapter 10. A just amazing marker in French: “Juste” 275
- Chapter 11. On how the distinction between reciprocal and collective verbs affects (anti-)control 299
- Chapter 12. The rise of cause/reason adverbial markers in Yaqui (Uto-Aztecan) 313
- Index 353
Chapters in this book
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents v
- Grammar, discourse, and the grammar-discourse interface 1
-
Part I. Discourse markers
- Chapter 1. On the rise of discourse markers 23
- Chapter 2. On the pragmatic development of modal particles in Navarrese-Lapurdian Basque 57
- Chapter 3. On divergent paths and functions of ‘background’-based discourse markers in Korean 77
- Chapter 4. Reanalysis and the emergence of adverbial connectors in the history of Japanese 101
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Part II. Discourse markers
- Chapter 5. The meaning and functions of French je pense (que) 127
- Chapter 6. Discourse markers and brain lateralization 157
- Chapter 7. Vietnamese expletive between grammatical subject and subjectivity marker 195
- Chapter 8. The final particle like in Northern English 229
- Chapter 9. On pragma-semantics of expressives 245
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Part III. Discourse-related grammatical phenomena
- Chapter 10. A just amazing marker in French: “Juste” 275
- Chapter 11. On how the distinction between reciprocal and collective verbs affects (anti-)control 299
- Chapter 12. The rise of cause/reason adverbial markers in Yaqui (Uto-Aztecan) 313
- Index 353
