Proceedings of the Korean Society for Language and Information Conference (한국언어정보학회:학술대회논문집)
- 2002.02a
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- Pages.113-122
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- 2002
An Event-Based Semantics for Japanese Emphatic Particles
- Ishikawa, Akira (Sophia University, Dept. of English and Studies, 7 Kioi-cho, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 102, Japan)
- Published : 2002.02.01
Abstract
Following Herburger (2000), I will develop an event-based semantics for Japanese emphatic particles which can address the issue of the mechanism of association with focus involving the emphatic particles. The proposed semantics makes use of Herburger's three key ideas: events as basic entities, decomposition of predicates into subatomic formulas, and separation of backgrounded and foregrounded information.
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