Modes of comparison and Question under Discussion: Evidence from ‘contrastive comparison’ in Japanese  

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Kubota, Yusuke ; Matsui, ai

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 57-75.
Topik: JAPANESE LANGUAGE-GRAMMAR; comparative; implicit comparison; explicit comparison; contrastive comparison; comparison class; contrastiveness; Question under Discussion; Japanese
Fulltext: 57-75.pdf (148.33KB)

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Based on new empirical evidence from Japanese, we first point out that the previously recognized distinction between explicit comparison and implicit comparison (Kennedy 2009; Sawada 2009) does not fully exhaust the possible types of comparison constructions. The third type of comparison construction, which we call ‘contrastive comparison’, calls for a finer-grained classification that cross-classifies the three types of comparison constructions in terms of both semantic and pragmatic properties. We will then show that such a refined perspective straightforwardly becomes available once we extend the previous classification with a closer attention to discourse-structural properties of the relevant constructions in terms of the notion of Question under Discussion (Roberts 1996).

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