<Research Paper>Speaker's Perceptions of Event Actualization as Expressed by the Adverb IYOIYO

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  • <研究論文>副詞「いよいよ」を通して見た出来事成立に対する話し手の捉え方
  • 副詞「いよいよ」を通して見た出来事成立に対する話し手の捉え方
  • フクシ 「 イヨイヨ 」 オ トオシテ ミタ デキゴト セイリツ ニ タイスル ハナシテ ノ トラエ カタ

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One meaning of the Japanese adverb Iyoiyo, is that some event, at long last, is just about to be realized, or that it has just been realized. It could also express the escalating degree, amount, etc. of a changing state or an event. In the former case, Iyoiyo highlights the actualizing phase, expressing that the actualization has reached or is about to reach the extreme point of the actualizing structure. Due to this semantic property, generally Iyoiyo is syntactically restricted to sentences that have a predicate with an inceptive or terminating end point. In the later case, it depicts the magnification as one heading towards the extreme point of the magnification scale. Thereby, Iyoiyo's two meanings correlate, having the extreme point as their common semantic property. What Iyoiyo adds to the intrinsic temporal meaning of the sentence is the speaker's view of the actualization.

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