<Articles>Two Divisions of Pragmatic Labor : Lexical vs. Productive Causatives and Actives vs. Passives

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  • <研究論文>二つの語用論的分業 --語彙的使役･生産的使役と能動･受動--
  • 二つの語用論的分業 : 語彙的使役・生産的使役と能動・受動
  • フタツ ノ ゴヨウロンテキ ブンギョウ : ゴイテキ シエキ ・ セイサンテキ シエキ ト ノウドウ ・ ジュドウ

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In the literature on causatives, including but not limited to those in Japanese, it has been argued that there is a'division of pragmatic labor'between productive and lexical causatives, such that the former are marked relative to the latter not only in form but also in meaning. This has additionally been captured in a bidirectional model, such that the production process makes reference to the interpretation process and vice versa. Japanese'subject-characterizing passives', which imply that the subject referent has a certain property, and'implied affectee passives', which imply that an umnentioned entity connected to the subject referent is affected by the eventuality expressed by the sentence, can likewise be seen as marked relative to the corresponding actives, not only formally but also semantically, due to the fact that they carry implicit meaning that is absent from these actives. In this paper Ie xamine the degree to which these two phenomena are similar, partly applying the concept of a division of pragmatic labor to subject-characterizing passives and implied affectee passives. In particular, I argue that the interpretation process of subject-characterizing passives and implied affectee passives is equivalent to that of productive causatives, both of them featuring implicature derivation through bidirectionality. I also discuss an Optimality-Theoretic model of the production and bidirectional interpretation processes of subject-characterizing passives, implied affectee passives, and other passives in Japanese.

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  • 京都大学言語学研究

    京都大学言語学研究 39 67-92, 2020-12-31

    Departmental of Linguistics, Graduate School of Letters, Kyoto University

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