Strength of evidence and the semantics of the Japanese -te iru aspect affix  

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Nara, Hiroshi

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Language Sciences (Full Text) vol. 21 no. 4 (1999), page 423-447.
Fulltext: 21_04_Nara.pdf (215.49KB)

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This paper argues that the various meanings of the Japanese V-te iru aspectual affix is not controlled by the verb's temporal property; rather, the meaning of this form is fundamentally undifferentiated between the resultative and progressive meanings. The paper demonstrates that the surface meaning of a sentence having this form takes on one of these two readings as a function of the amount of residual evidence that is available (or strength of evidence, SE) during or after the commission of the act. The value of SE is the result of conventional attachment of pragmatic knowledge to the event denoted by the verb. The higher the verb's SE, the resultative meaning of V-te iru, and the lower the SE, the more progressive the meaning. Instead of a system of verb classification of Japanese verbs based on the temporal property, this paper proposes an alternate one based on SE, which seems to account for the data better. [ 1999 Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved.

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