Speaker's Recognition of an Event and Intervention of"Koto"and "Mono"

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  • 認識的意味とコト・モノの介在
  • ニンシキテキ イミ ト コト モノ ノ カイザイ

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The abstract nouns "koto" and "mono" may appear immediately before an epistemic modal predicate or some type of verb of thought. We call this syntactic phenomenon "intervention," and an analysis that the nouns reflect the speaker's recognition of an event will be presented. On the one hand, "mono" is intervened when a evidential modal predicate or a verb of thought with evidential meaning is used. On the other hand, "koto" is intervened when "daroo," which denotes the speaker's imagination, "omou" verb of thought, or a wh-question is used. Given the above observations, it is claimed that "mono" denotes an event which is recognized by the speaker as an inference based on evidence, and "koto" denotes an event that the speaker is unable to decide its truthfullness.

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