<Articles>A Study of the Specification of the First Person in Japanese Giving-and-Receiving Expressions

朱 炫?

doi:10.15068/00145465

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<論文>授受表現における一人称の明示性について

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In this paper I consider the specification of the case frame in giving-and-receiving expressions from the perspective of information structure. Because one can infer the relationship between the speaker the nominative and the dative from the restrictions on point of view in giving-and-receiving expressions the case frame that represents the speaker himself is both restorable and omitable. However from an examination of the case frames in the BCCWJ (Balanced Corpus of Contemporary Written Japanese) I point out that there are some cases in which rather than being omitted they are explicitly specified in order to achieve a certain contextual effect. In this paper I have two major contentions. Using the concept of “the topic,” the first is that the specified case frame is used to express a topic and has a contextual effect of activating the information. And I explain that a topic has a hierarchy and continuity and can function as a topic over more than one sentence and topics with a higher position in the hierarchy have a longer range. The second is that expressions that co-occur with the activated case frame have a subjective characteristic of expressing an utterance attitude on the speaker himself.

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国際日本研究

国際日本研究 8 195-209, 2016-03

Master's and Doctoral Program in International and Advanced Japanese Studies Graduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences University of Tsukuba