Imperative -ta in colloquial Japanese: A descriptive analysis
(2007)Japanese Studies
- Abstract
- The use of the past tense form (or ta-form) as an imperative in modern Japanese has been touched upon by various scholars. However, a descriptive analysis of the phenomenon has not yet been performed. In this thesis, the characteristics of this type of ta-form usage and the rules governing it are described through a contrastive analysis of the way in which the usage of imperative -ta differs from the other imperative forms of modern Japanese. The relation between aspect and grammatical mood seen in imperative -ta is then discussed, focusing on the connection between imperative -ta and perfective aspect.
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- author
- Svahn, Axel
- supervisor
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- Lars Larm LU
- organization
- year
- 2007
- type
- M2 - Bachelor Degree
- subject
- keywords
- japanska och paleosibiriska språk, Korean, Japanese, japanska, pragmatics, pragmantik, tense, imperfekt, Linguistics, Koreanska, Paleo-Siberian languages and literatures, Allmän språkvetenskap/Lingvistik
- language
- English
- id
- 1322097
- date added to LUP
- 2007-02-23 00:00:00
- date last changed
- 2009-03-26 15:12:18
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