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Volume 33, Issue 2
  • ISSN 1018-2101
  • E-ISSN: 2406-4238

Abstract

Abstract

The present study examines and , which are the past-tense forms of and in written Japanese. The analysis demonstrates that the choice between the present-tense and the past-tense does not affect the temporal interpretation when they follow past-tense morphemes. However, a close examination has also revealed that the past-tense cannot follow a past-tense morpheme when the ongoing mode of discourse is non-narrative, while and are both available options when the discourse is in the mode of narrative. The present study also suggests that when is used in narrative, it indicates that the stated information is less impactful, less dramatic, and more temporally distant, compared to the cases where is used.

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Keyword(s): discourse analysis; Japanese; n(o) da; no datta; no de aru; no de atta; pragmatics
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