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SHIBASAKI Reijirou
Department Undergraduate School , School of Interdisciplinary Mathematical Sciences Position Professor |
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| Language | English |
| Publication Date | 2018/12 |
| Type | Book Chapter Paper |
| Peer Review | Peer reviewed |
| Title | "From the inside to the outside of the sentence: Forming a larger discourse unit with jijitsu 'fact' in Japanese" (John Benjamins, SLCS202) |
| Contribution Type | Sole-authored |
| Journal | New Trends in Grammaticalization and Language Change |
| Journal Type | Another Country |
| Publisher | John Benjamins |
| Volume, Issue, Page | pp.333-360 |
| Author and coauthor | Sylvie Hancil, Tine Breban and Jose Vincente Lozano (eds.) |
| Details | This study examines the development of the projector jijitsu ‘the fact is, in fact’ from the earlier nominal predicate jijitsu-nari/dearu/da/desu/dearimasu (fact-copulative verb) in Modern through Present-day Japanese. Evidence from corpus studies suggests that jijitsu undergoes both formal and functional changes from the inside of the sentence as a nominal predicate to the outside of the sentence as a projector, connecting preceding and following information, forming a larger discourse unit. Constructionalization attested in the history of jijitsu echoes the historical processes of similar constructions in European languages, which means that language users have the potential to make ‘discourse-pragmatic’ sense of a given context, and such a newly emergent sense is likely to be formally realized at the edge of a sentence. DOI 10.1075/slcs.202.14shi |
| URL for researchmap | https://benjamins.com/catalog/persons/681069781 |