ConSOLE 26 2018 • University College London

Interactions of discourse particles and sentence mood operators: Japanese 'ne' in contrast with German 'ja' under the framework of multidimensional semantics

Katsumasa Ito

University of Tokyo

Japan Society for the Promotion of Science

k_ito@phiz.c.u-tokyo.ac.jp
discourse particlesmultidimensional semanticsinterrogative clauses

Abstract

A German discourse particle 'ja' and Japanese discourse particle 'ne' seem to have been analyzed in a similar way: They modify a propositional content p and indicate CG-status of p. However, this analysis cannot explain why 'ne' is felicitous in questions, answers, and denial contexts, where p cannot be in CG. Adopting the framework of multidimensional semantics (cf. Gutzmann 2015), this paper proposes that ne modifies a sentence mood operator. It is shown that the analysis accounts for not only the distribution of 'ne', but also the ambiguity of an interrogative clause with 'ne', which is reported in Hashimoto (1993).

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Katsumasa Ito (2018). interactions of discourse particles and sentence mood operators: japanese 'ne' in contrast with german 'ja' under the framework of multidimensional semantics. In Proceedings of ConSOLE 26, edited by Astrid van Alem, Anastasiia Ionova, Cora Pots, (pp. 157-171).

BibTeX

@inproceedings{ito-discourseparticles-2018, title={Interactions of discourse particles and sentence mood operators: Japanese 'ne' in contrast with German 'ja' under the framework of multidimensional semantics}, author={Katsumasa Ito}, booktitle={Proceedings of ConSOLE 26}, year={2018}, pages={157-171}, editor={Astrid van Alem and Anastasiia Ionova and Cora Pots} }

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