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A constructional account of the ‘optional’ quotative marking on Japanese mimetics
AKITA, KIMI
USUKI, TAKESHI
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This article has been published in a revised form in [Journal of Linguistics] [https://doi.org/10.1017/S0022226715000171]. This version is free to view and download for private research and study only. Not for re-distribution, re-sale or use in derivative works. © 2016 Cambridge University Press.
This paper proposes a constructional account of the longstanding issue of the optional quotative to-marking on manner-adverbial mimetics (or ideophones) in Japanese. We argue that this optionality comes from the availability of two morphological constructions – the bare-mimetic predicate construction and the quotative-adverbial construction – to a set of mimetics. On the one hand, the bare-mimetic predicate construction incorporates previously identified phonological, syntactic, and semantic conditions of the bare realization of mimetics. This construction is instantiated by bare mimetics (e.g. pyókopyoko ‘jumping around quickly’) in combination with their typical host predicates (e.g. hane- ‘jump’), and they behave as loose complex predicates with more or less abstract meanings. As with ‘say’- and ‘do’-verbs, these complex predicates involve quasi-incorporation, which is a constructional strategy for the morphosyntactic integration of mimetics into sentence structures. On the other hand, the quotative-adverbial construction introduces mimetics to sentences with a minimal loss of their imitative semiotics. This fundamental function is consistent with the wide distribution of quotative-marked mimetics.
Cambridge University Press
2016-07
eng
journal article
AM
http://hdl.handle.net/2237/26732
https://nagoya.repo.nii.ac.jp/records/24513
https://doi.org/10.1017/S0022226715000171
0022-2267
Journal of Linguistics
52
2
245
275
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