Marking aspect along a scale: The semantics of -te iku and -te kuru in Japanese  

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Kubota, Yusuke

Jenis: Article from Proceeding
Dalam koleksi: Proceedings of the 20th Semantics and Linguistic Theory Conference, held at Vancouver, British Colombia, April 29 - May 1, 2010, page 128-146.
Topik: JAPANESE LITERATURE; scale structure; aspectual composition; telicity; degree achievement; change of state predicate; Japanese
Fulltext: 128-146.pdf (174.69KB)

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This paper proposes an analysis of two aspectual markers -te iku and -te kuru in Japanese within a scale-based approach to semantics, focusing on cases in which they occur with degree achievements (or incremental change of state predicates). It will be shown that the complex telicity and entailment patterns that these aspectual markers exhibit when they occur with degree achievements in Japanese can be explained by analyzing them as operators that change the scale structures of the predicates that they take as arguments.

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