The perfective imperative in Japanese: A further analysis
(2010) SPVR01 20101Japanese Studies
Master's Programme: Language and Linguistics
- Abstract
- The present thesis is concerned with a descriptive analysis of a phenomenon in the Japanese language, the use as an imperative of two suffixes of tense and aspect, -ta and -tari. The use of the past tense form (or ta-form) as an imperative in modern Japanese has been touched upon by various scholars, but a detailed account of the construction, its diachrony, and its place in a cross-linguistic context has not previously been performed. These aspects of the constructions are described in detail, and a contrastive analysis determines how imperative -ta differs from other imperatives in modern Japanese. The relation between aspect and imperative utterances manifested in imperative -ta is discussed, focusing on the connection between... (More)
- The present thesis is concerned with a descriptive analysis of a phenomenon in the Japanese language, the use as an imperative of two suffixes of tense and aspect, -ta and -tari. The use of the past tense form (or ta-form) as an imperative in modern Japanese has been touched upon by various scholars, but a detailed account of the construction, its diachrony, and its place in a cross-linguistic context has not previously been performed. These aspects of the constructions are described in detail, and a contrastive analysis determines how imperative -ta differs from other imperatives in modern Japanese. The relation between aspect and imperative utterances manifested in imperative -ta is discussed, focusing on the connection between imperative -ta and perfective aspect. The discussion also focuses on the occurrence of past tense and perfective imperatives cross-linguistically. These phenomena are connected through the concept of deictic projection (Lyons 1977, Tavangar and Amouzadeh 2006). (Less)
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- author
- Svahn, Axel LU
- supervisor
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- Lars Larm LU
- organization
- course
- SPVR01 20101
- year
- 2010
- type
- H2 - Master's Degree (Two Years)
- subject
- keywords
- deictic projection, imperative, Japanese, past tense, perfective aspect, -ta, -tari, Aspect
- language
- English
- id
- 1579617
- date added to LUP
- 2010-03-26 16:05:38
- date last changed
- 2011-04-21 14:43:48
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