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Malefactivity in Japanese
- Author(s): Eijiro Tsuboi 1
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View Affiliations Hide AffiliationsAffiliations:1 University of Tokyo
- Source: Benefactives and Malefactives , pp 419-436
- Publication Date April 2010
This paper attempts to shed new light on malefactivity in Japanese by examining how the adversative interpretation obtains in the Japanese passive constructions, both as a fully grammaticalized constructional meaning and a context-dependent interpretation. Our analysis reveals the general mechanisms underlying the adversative semantics and concomitant syntactic behavior such as valency increase, as well as elucidating the way they interact with language-particular features characteristic of Japanese. The overall picture gained by our analysis points to the importance of viewing adversative constructions in a broader perspective, as something which emerges from the interaction of various factors in the dynamic processes of contextualization and grammaticalization.
- Affiliations: 1: University of Tokyo
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