Korera, sorera, arera: "the reference" of modern Japanese plural demonstratives

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  • これら・それら・あれら: 指示詞複数形の指示について
  • コレラ ソレラ アレラ シジシ フクスウケイ ノ シジ ニツイテ

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This research collects the modern Japanese plural demonstratives‘‘korera, sorera, arera”. As for the Japanese demonstrative, it can display plural ones in single several ways, but Japanese plural demonstratives have‘‘ind孟viduality”, which keep looking at plural ones, it differs from‘‘totality”, the case which it display at the singular. But the“individuality”is something, which diff巳rs f「om the person to the interpretati.on, in plural demonstratives it is possible to replace in the singular excluding the case of logical composition」n other words, the reference range of plural demonstratives is quite narrow. In addition, Japanese ‘‘ ≠窒?窒=his thought that it isn’t natural to be used because it has deviated from Japanese demonstrative system, but even today it is used from the transiation of English“those”. And that the reference range of p正ural demonstratives is narrow  is thought that is, because that reference keeps tuming“the human reference” to‘‘the thing reference”.

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