Evidentiality of discourse items and because-clauses  

Oleh:

Hara, Yurie

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Journal of Semantics (Sebagian Full Text) vol. 25 no. 3 (Aug. 2008), page 229–268.
Topik: Discourse; Because-Clauses; morphological marker; Japanese Language
Fulltext: vol 25, no 3, p 229-268.pdf (244.23KB)

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There is a parallelism between contrastive marking and evidential marking with respect to their distribution among adjunct clauses. I take this fact to show that both contrastive marking and evidential marking express some attitude towards a closed proposition, following Johnston’s (1994) analysis that the semantics of temporal and if-clauses involve event quantification while that of because-clauses is a relation between two particular events. Furthermore, this association between the implicature and the attitude-holder cannot be established in certain constructions, namely adjunct clauses and relative clauses. Hence, I argue that the computation of contrastive marking involves an island-sensitive movement of an operator.

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