Yasuhiro Fujinawa

List of John Benjamins publications in which Yasuhiro Fujinawa is involved.

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Thetics and Categoricals

Edited by Werner Abraham, Elisabeth Leiss and Yasuhiro Fujinawa

Thetics and Categoricals do not belong to the categories of German grammar. Thetics were introduced in logic as impersonal and broad focus constructions. They left profound and extensive traces in the logic of the late 19th century. For the class of thetic propositions, the criterion of textual… read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 262] 2020. vii, 390 pp.

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Fujinawa, Yasuhiro 2020 Pseudocategorical or purely thetic? A contrastive case study of how thetic statements are expressed in Japanese, English, and German Thetics and Categoricals, Abraham, Werner, Elisabeth Leiss and Yasuhiro Fujinawa (eds.), pp. 283–310 | Chapter

According to Marty (1918), thetic statements differ from categorical ones in making a simple existential recognition or rejection rather than a predication. In Japanese, where two subject particles, ga and wa, are presumably available for this differentiation (Kuroda 1972), the point can be… read more