On the meaning of the Japanese passive
- 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.
| Author: | Frederik H. H. KortlandtGND |
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| URN: | urn:nbn:de:hebis:30-1156527 |
| URL: | http://www.kortlandt.nl/publications/art113e.pdf |
| Parent Title (German): | Acta Linguistica Hafniensia |
| Document Type: | Article |
| Language: | English |
| Date of Publication (online): | 2010/07/07 |
| Year of first Publication: | 2003 |
| Publishing Institution: | Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg |
| Release Date: | 2010/07/07 |
| GND Keyword: | Japanisch |
| Volume: | 24 |
| Page Number: | 11 |
| First Page: | 97 |
| Last Page: | 108 |
| Note: | Korrigierte Version |
| Source: | http://www.kortlandt.nl/publications/art113e.pdf ; (in:) Acta Linguistica Hafniensia, 24, 1992, S. 97-108 |
| HeBIS-PPN: | 24670375X |
| Dewey Decimal Classification: | 4 Sprache / 40 Sprache / 400 Sprache |
| Sammlungen: | Linguistik |
| Linguistik-Klassifikation: | Linguistik-Klassifikation: Morphologie / Morphology |
| Licence (German): |  Deutsches Urheberrecht |
