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- Title
A diachronic perspective on differential object marking in pre-modern Japanese: Old Japanese and Early Middle Japanese.
- Authors
Frellesvig, Bjarke; Horn, Stephen; Yuko Yanagida
- Abstract
An exhaustive search of Old Japanese object NPs associated with weak floating quantifiers and question-focussed object NPs containing interrogative words confirms the suggestion made in Yanagida & Whitman (2009), confirmed by Frellesvig et al. (2015), that Old Japanese had differential object marking (DOM) with specificity (defined by Frellesvig et al. 2015 as D-linking) as a necessary condition. Testing the same hypothesis on Early Middle Japanese, however, shows that this condition no longer obtained by the Heian Period. The resources for the expression of specificity and the set of conditions for differential object marking clearly changed over this span of the history of the Japanese language.
- Subjects
JAPANESE language; QUANTIFIERS (Linguistics); NOUN phrases (Grammar); PRONOMINALS (Grammar); LINGUISTICS
- Publication
Studies in Diversity Linguistics, 2018, Issue 19, p183
- ISSN
2363-5568
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.5281/zenodo.1228255