1# Library to Find Best eBook for Read
Author : Daniel Trott
Release : 2014
Genre : Historical linguistics
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : /5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Tense and Aspect in Old Japanese by : Daniel Trott
Download or read book Tense and Aspect in Old Japanese written by Daniel Trott. This book was released on 2014. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Kazuha Watanabe
Release : 2021-03-23
Genre : Language Arts & Disciplines
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 431/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Diachrony, Synchrony, and Typology of Tense and Aspect in Old Japanese by : Kazuha Watanabe
Download or read book Diachrony, Synchrony, and Typology of Tense and Aspect in Old Japanese written by Kazuha Watanabe. This book was released on 2021-03-23. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Kazuha Watanabe
Release : 2008
Genre :
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : /5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Tense and Aspect in Old Japanese by : Kazuha Watanabe
Download or read book Tense and Aspect in Old Japanese written by Kazuha Watanabe. This book was released on 2008. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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
Release : 2008
Genre :
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 927/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Tense and Aspect in Old Japanese: Synchronic, Diachronic, and Typological Perspective by : Kazuha Watanabe
Download or read book Tense and Aspect in Old Japanese: Synchronic, Diachronic, and Typological Perspective written by Kazuha Watanabe. This book was released on 2008. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Jadranka Gvozdanović
Release : 2022-08-04
Genre : Language Arts & Disciplines
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 442/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Development of Tense and Aspect Systems by : Jadranka Gvozdanović
Download or read book Development of Tense and Aspect Systems written by Jadranka Gvozdanović. This book was released on 2022-08-04. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Linguistic construal of time lies at the center of language and language use; it is also one of the cognitive foundations of culture. The focus of the papers in this volume is on historical developments of genetically different aspect and tense systems across continents, with contributions on the Sogeram languages of Papua New Guinea, the Arandic languages of Australia, Kisikongo Bantu, and Japanese. In addition, two prototypical Indo-European tense-aspect systems, those of Vedic and Latin, are analyzed in a comparative perspective. Across language groups and continents, the general principles revealed by the studies presented here contribute towards a novel and deepening understanding of tense and aspect. They contribute not only to modelling and theory, but also to a better understanding of processes in individual languages. Originally published as special issue of the Journal of Historical Linguistics 10:2 (2020).
