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In:Studies at the Grammar-Discourse Interface: Discourse markers and discourse-related grammatical phenomena
Edited by Alexander Haselow and Sylvie Hancil
[Studies in Language Companion Series 219] 2021
► pp. 101–124

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Chapter 4
Reanalysis and the emergence of adverbial connectors in the history of Japanese

 | Meiji University
Published online: 3 June 2021
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https://doi.org/10.1075/slcs.219.04shi
Abstract
This study deals with issues related to the development of stand-alone adverbial connectors such as totan(-ni), shunkan(-ni), hyoosi(-ni), and yasaki(-ni) in sentence-initial position in the history of Japanese. These adverbial connectors, which can be witnessed from the early twentieth century, developed from the erstwhile head of adnominal clauses through a series of steps, i.e. reanalysis. The adverbial connectors under investigation here serve to anticipate more to come in the following discourse, labeled projectors by Hopper and Thompson (2008). In a nutshell, the emergence of adverbial connectors involves an increase in structural scope over a stretch of discourse.
Article outline
  • 1.Introduction
  • 2.Preceding studies with corroborating information
  • 3.Corpora and dictionaries
  • 4.The survey results and discussion
    • 4.1Boundary shifts and grammatical renewal through reanalysis
    • 4.2Bridging context and constructional clustering
  • 5.(Re)creating grammar through reanalysis in other languages
  • 6.Concluding remarks
  • Acknowledgements
  • Notes
  • Abbreviations
  • Corpora
  • Dictionaries
  • References
  • Appendix
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