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In:Pseudo-Coordination and Multiple Agreement Constructions
Edited by Giuliana Giusti, Vincenzo Nicolò Di Caro and Daniel Ross
[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today 274] 2022
► pp. 245–270

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Chapter 11
Ambiguities in Japanese pseudo-coordination and its dialectal variation

ORCiD logo with link | University of Tsukuba
 | University of Shizuoka
Published online: 16 March 2022
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https://doi.org/10.1075/la.274.11shi
Abstract
This paper addresses Japanese pseudo-coordination containing an existential verb by focusing on the two types of existential verbs, one taking an animate subject and the other taking an inanimate subject. Though both can form a pseudo-coordination expression, one is two-way ambiguous in aspectual interpretation, and the other is not. Moreover, dialectal variation is observed. This paper attempts to explain the difference between the two interpretations of Japanese pseudo-coordination and assigns a different structure to each interpretation. More specifically, in one interpretation, existential verbs are truly existential verbs of a lexical category, and in the other interpretation, they are functional categories. Based on this analysis, dialectal variation is also explained based on the notion of externalization.
Article outline
  • 1.Introduction
  • 2.Description of -te aru sentences in SJ and FJ
    • 2.1Aru as an intransitivizer
    • 2.2Intransitivizing resultatives in FJ
    • 2.3Some characteristics of -te aru sentences in FJ
    • 2.4Research questions
  • 3.Explanation of -te aru sentences in SJ and FJ
    • 3.1A structural difference between the two readings of chaa sentences
    • 3.2Proposals
  • 4.Supporting evidence for the suppletion analysis
    • 4.1Another phenomenon
    • 4.2Proposal
  • 5.Summary and some remarks
  • Acknowledgements
  • Notes
  • Abbreviations
  • References
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