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[in Japanese]1999 Volume 1999 Issue 115 Pages 1-5
Published: March 25, 1999
Released on J-STAGE: October 23, 2007
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Takeshi FUJITA1999 Volume 1999 Issue 115 Pages 7-49
Published: March 25, 1999
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Toshiki OSADA1999 Volume 1999 Issue 115 Pages 51-76
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Setsuko ARITA1999 Volume 1999 Issue 115 Pages 77-108
Published: March 25, 1999
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JOURNAL FREE ACCESSThe purpose of this article is to consider the distribution of the three conditional forms in Japanese: reba, tara and nara. Comrie (1985) claims that a given construction should be identified in terms of prototype rather than in terms of necessary-and-sufficient conditions. Dancygier (1993) classifies the conditionals into two types: predictive conditional and non predictive conditional. The former type is treated as typical conditional sentence.
Here I propose that the predictive conditional as typical conditional sentence carries the following two characteristics:
1) It denotes cause-effect relation between its protasis and apodosis.
2) Its tense form does not designate real time.
These characteristics are sufficiently significant to reflect the distribution of reba, tam and nara in predictive conditional in Japanese. And this is explained by the same motivation as the backshifting patterns in English.View full abstractDownload PDF (2035K) -
Tomoko KONDO1999 Volume 1999 Issue 115 Pages 109-140
Published: March 25, 1999
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JOURNAL FREE ACCESSIn conditional sentences of Arabic, “Perfect” form is normally used. Since it, has no time reference, events expressed by “Perfect” are interpreted as past, present or future, depending on the contexts. In Modern Standard Arabic, however, compound forms, kana qad+ “Perfect” and kdna sa-“Imperfect”, are used to mark past and future time, respectively.
In this paper, I examined the meanings and functions of each of the compound forms and specified the conditions when they are used obligatorily. And I pointed out that lexical aspects play an important role for the interpretation of time reference. When a verb has a terminal point in its lexical meaning, kana qad + “Perfect” can refer to present time. This is caused by its implied resultative state. And when a verb is inchoative, kana lam + “Imperfect Jussive”, a negative form of kdna qad + “Perfect”, can be used in non-past contexts. This is related to the fact that the negated verbal form has only one implicature of a state, which can be interpreted as the one continuing up to the present. On the other hand, kdna sa-“Imperfect” form is used for future time reference, especially when the event of protasis takes place after that of apodsis happens.
These compound forms are constituted by the auxiliary verb kana, whose functions differ depending on where it is used, or what verbal form is compounded with it.
These time-marking forms also function in determining the temporal relationship between protasis and apodosis.View full abstractDownload PDF (2228K) -
Levy, Yonata (ed.), Other children, other languages: Issues in the theory of language acquisition. Hillsdale, NJ: LawrenceMihoko KUBOTA1999 Volume 1999 Issue 115 Pages 141-158
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[in Japanese]1999 Volume 1999 Issue 115 Pages 159-165
Published: March 25, 1999
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