Decisions, Dynamics and the Japanese Particle yo  

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DAVIS, CHRISTOPHER

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Journal of Semantics (Sebagian Full Text) vol. 26 no. 4 (Nov. 2009), page 329–366.
Topik: Japanese sentence; particle yo
Fulltext: vol 26, no 4 p 329-366.pdf (255.66KB)

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I provide an account of the Japanese sentence-final particle yo within a dynamic semantics framework. I argue that yo is used with one of two intonational morphemes, corresponding to sentence-final rising or falling tunes. These intonational morphemes modify a sentence’s illocutionary force head, adding an addressee-directed update semantics to the utterance. The different intonational contours specify whether this update is monotonic or non-monotonic. The use of yo is then argued to contribute a pragmatic presupposition to the utterance saying that the post-update discourse context is one in which the addressee’s contextual decision problem is resolved. This proposal is shown to account for a range of constraints on the felicitous use of yo, including its restriction to addressee-new and addresseerelevant information in assertions, as well as its behaviour in imperatives and interrogatives.

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