Focus particles, secondary meanings, and Lexical Resource Semantics: The case of Japanese "shika"
- Japanese has two exclusive particles 'shika' and 'dake'. Although traditionally, both particles were considered to be exclusive particles like 'only', a recent proposal claims that 'shika' is an exceptive particle like 'everyone except' to account for the necessary co-occurrence of the negative suffix 'na' and 'shika'. We show that this negative suffix lacks two critical semantic properties of ordinary logical negation: It is not downward entailing, nor does it license negative polarity items. We show that both 'shika' and 'dake' are exclusive particles, but that 'shika' encodes an additional secondary meaning. The negative suffix only contributes to the sentence's secondary meaning when it co-occurs with 'shika'. We present an HPSG and LRS analysis that models the co-occurrence of 'shika' and the negative suffix 'na', and their contribution to the sentence's secondary meaning.
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| Author: | Akio Hasegawa, Jean-Pierre KoenigORCiDGND |
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| URN: | urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-715324 |
| DOI: | https://doi.org/10.21248/hpsg.2011.5 |
| ISSN: | 1535-1793 |
| Parent Title (English): | Proceedings of the ... International Conference on Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar (HPSG) |
| Publisher: | CSLI Publications |
| Place of publication: | Stanford, CA |
| Document Type: | Conference Proceeding |
| Language: | English |
| Date of Publication (online): | 2011/11/16 |
| Year of first Publication: | 2011 |
| Publishing Institution: | Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg |
| Contributing Corporation: | International Conference on Head Driven Phrase Structure Grammar (18 : 2011 : Seattle, Wash.) |
| Release Date: | 2024/09/06 |
| GND Keyword: | Japanisch; Gradpartikel |
| Volume: | 18.2011 |
| Page Number: | 21 |
| First Page: | 81 |
| Last Page: | 101 |
| Dewey Decimal Classification: | 4 Sprache / 40 Sprache / 400 Sprache |
| 4 Sprache / 41 Linguistik / 410 Linguistik | |
| Sammlungen: | Linguistik |
| Linguistik-Klassifikation: | Linguistik-Klassifikation: Syntax |
| Linguistik-Klassifikation: Semantik / Semantics | |
| Licence (German): |  Creative Commons - CC BY - Namensnennung 4.0 International |
