Empty nominalization over antonymous juxtaposition/coordination and the emergence of a new syntactic construction
- In Japanese, direct combination of verbs or adjectives by coordination (with to 'and') or juxtaposition (with its empty counterpart) can form a NP, if the conjuncts are antonymous to each other; the coordinator to 'and' can combine only NPs elsewhere. We claim that this is because there is a phonetically empty nominalizer that can nominalize each conjunct, and that the new nominal construction has been gradually developing in the history of Japanese. An acceptability-rating experiment targeting 400 participants shows that the younger speakers were likely to judge this construction more acceptable than the older ones, that this tendency is slightly weaker in the Nominative condition than in the Genitive condition, and that the coordination condition was significantly worse than the juxtaposition condition.
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| Author: | Yoshiki OgawaORCiD, Keiyu NiikuniORCiD, Yuichi Wada |
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| URN: | urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-704872 |
| DOI: | https://doi.org/10.3726/zwjw.2020.01.02 |
| ISSN: | 2367-3877 |
| Parent Title (Multiple languages): | Zeitschrift für Wortbildung : ZWJW = Journal of word formation |
| Publisher: | Peter Lang |
| Place of publication: | Berlin |
| Document Type: | Article |
| Language: | English |
| Date of Publication (online): | 2022/10/07 |
| Year of first Publication: | 2020 |
| Publishing Institution: | Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg |
| Release Date: | 2022/12/23 |
| Tag: | Juxtaposition |
| GND Keyword: | Nominalisierung; Japanisch; Antonym |
| Volume: | 4.2020 |
| Issue: | 2 |
| Page Number: | 23 |
| First Page: | 13 |
| Last Page: | 35 |
| HeBIS-PPN: | 507014685 |
| Dewey Decimal Classification: | 4 Sprache / 40 Sprache / 400 Sprache |
| 4 Sprache / 41 Linguistik / 410 Linguistik | |
| 4 Sprache / 49 Andere Sprachen / 490 Andere Sprachen | |
| Sammlungen: | Linguistik |
| Linguistik-Klassifikation: | Linguistik-Klassifikation: Morphologie / Morphology |
| Licence (German): |  Creative Commons - CC BY - Namensnennung 4.0 International |
