TY  - JOUR
A1  - Kortlandt, Frederik H. H.
T1  - On the meaning of the Japanese passive
T2  - Acta Linguistica Hafniensia
N2  - In her discussion of the Japanese adversative passive, Anna Wierzbicka writes (1988: 260): “The problem is extremely interesting and important both for intrinsic reasons and because of its wider methodological implications. It can be formulated like this: if one form can be used in a number of different ways, are we entitled to postulate for it a number of different meanings or should we rather search for one semantic common denominator (regarded as the MEANING of the form in question) and attribute the variety of uses to the interaction between this meaning and the linguistic or extralinguistic context?” Though it “may seem obvious” that the second stand is “methodologically preferable” (261), she takes the first position and concludes that “the Japanese passive has to be recognized as multiply ambiguous” (286). In the following I intend to show that this view is both wrong and fruitful.
KW  - Japanisch
Y1  - 2010
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/14730
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30-1156527
UR  - http://www.kortlandt.nl/publications/art113e.pdf
N1  - Korrigierte Version
VL  - 24
SP  - 97
EP  - 108
ER  -