Grammaticalization of Japanese pseudonouns and auxiliary verbs: A morphosyntactic and semantic approach.

By: Hino, SukenariContributor(s): University of HawaiiMaterial type: TextTextDescription: 152 pSubject(s): Language, Linguistics | Language, Ancient | Language, Modern | 0290 | 0289 | 0291Dissertation note: Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Hawaii, 2000. Summary: Three types of pragmatic-semantic change are observed when Japanese nouns and verbs are grammaticalized to pseudonouns and auxiliary verbs: metaphorical Abstraction, hence, is the loss of part of the original meaning. Finally, desemanticization is the loss of the original meaning.Summary: Two models of metaphorical extension are proposed with the several semantic categories. MATTER (1) OBJECT > SPACE > TIME QUALITY. (2) PHYSICAL > PSYCHOLOGICAL.Summary: The first model is mainly applied to nouns, whereas the second model is mainly applied to verbs. The first model, however, is also partially applicable to verbs i.e. SPACE > TIME and SPACE > QUALITY. The second model is also applicable to nouns.Summary: Abstraction, in contrast, is applied only when verbs become auxiliary and metaphorical extension sometimes interact with each other.Summary: something in any stage of semantic category. In desemanticization, on the other hand, the reference function is lost, whereas grammatical and expressive functions are gained. Two models of desemanticization are proposed. (1) Propositional > Grammatical. (2) Propositional > Grammatical > Expressive. These pragmatic-semantic changes are discussed with examples from Old Japanese through Modern Japanese.
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Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 61-04, Section: A, page: 1378.

Chair: Alexander Vovin.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Hawaii, 2000.

Three types of pragmatic-semantic change are observed when Japanese nouns and verbs are grammaticalized to pseudonouns and auxiliary verbs: metaphorical Abstraction, hence, is the loss of part of the original meaning. Finally, desemanticization is the loss of the original meaning.

Two models of metaphorical extension are proposed with the several semantic categories. MATTER (1) OBJECT > SPACE > TIME QUALITY. (2) PHYSICAL > PSYCHOLOGICAL.

The first model is mainly applied to nouns, whereas the second model is mainly applied to verbs. The first model, however, is also partially applicable to verbs i.e. SPACE > TIME and SPACE > QUALITY. The second model is also applicable to nouns.

Abstraction, in contrast, is applied only when verbs become auxiliary and metaphorical extension sometimes interact with each other.

something in any stage of semantic category. In desemanticization, on the other hand, the reference function is lost, whereas grammatical and expressive functions are gained. Two models of desemanticization are proposed. (1) Propositional > Grammatical. (2) Propositional > Grammatical > Expressive. These pragmatic-semantic changes are discussed with examples from Old Japanese through Modern Japanese.

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