Differential Object Marking in Old Japanese

Frellesvig, Bjarke; Horn, Stephen Wright; Yanagida, Yuko

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“…Old Japanese had unmarked nominatives. Accusative was optionally marked by the particle wo, to which traditionally a function of 'appeal' (yobikake) (Kamada 1979: 179) and more recently (non-obligatory) marking of specific objects (Frellesvig et al 2015) have been attributed. It is clear that OJ wo was multi-functional, also marking perlative (a spatial case for the notion "through"), for example.…”

Section: Core Case Marking In Old Japanesementioning

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Origin and structure of focus concord constructions in Old Japanese – a synthesis

Narrog

2019

Glossa: A Journal of General Linguistics

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This paper provides a critical analysis of the possible origins and the proposed structures of focus particle constructions with clause-final nominalized predicates in older Japanese, which form part of the so-called kakari-musubi (dependent-concluding) constructions. These constructions typically involve a focused constituent with a specific particle that corresponds to a specific nominalized predicate form. A salient feature of Old Japanese syntax, the focus concord constructions rapidly declined from the 12 th century on and are not preserved in Modern Standard Japanese. This paper first describes the structures involved, and then critically evaluates the most important interpretations that have been assigned to them. As a conclusion, a scenario by which the focus concord constructions may have evolved is proposed.

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Origin and structure of focus concord constructions in Old Japanese – a synthesis

Narrog

2019

Glossa: A Journal of General Linguistics

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Two types of alignment change in nominalizations

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Yanagida

2021

DIA

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This paper investigates two instances of alignment change, both of which resulted from reanalysis of a nominalized embedded clause type, in which the external argument was marked with genitive case and the internal argument was focused. We show that a subject marked with genitive case in the early development of Austronesian languages became ergative-marked when object relative clauses in cleft constructions were reanalyzed as transitive root clauses. In contrast to this, the genitive case in Old Japanese nominalized clauses, marking an external argument, was extended to mark all subjects. This occurred after adnominal clauses were reanalyzed as root clauses. Japanese underwent one more step in order for genitive to be reanalyzed as nominative: the reanalysis of impersonal psych transitive constructions as intransitives. With these two case studies of Austronesian and Japanese, we show that reanalysis of nominalization goes in either direction, ergative or accusative, depending on the syntactic conditions involved in the reanalysis.

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Differential argument marking and object movement in Old Japanese

Yanagida

2018

Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today

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This paper discusses object movement and its diachronic source in what Yanagida and Whitman (2009) (Y&W) label nominalized clauses in Old Japanese (OJ; 8 century). When the subject is marked by genitive ga, the ancestor of Modern Japanese nominative, the object necessarily moves over the subject, resulting in OSV. Y&W argue that OJ ga is licensed by agentive v and that OSV word order is a property of active alignment. From both theoretical and typological perspectives, this paper argues that case marking and word order variations in OJ are best analyzed as instances of the typologically well attested phenomenon of Differential Argument Marking (DAM). It is shown that object movement is a widely attested subtype of DAM. This paper proposes that the so-called Subject-in-Situ Generalization (SSG) (Alexiadou and Anagnostopoulou 2001) provides a unified analysis of object movement across languages.

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Differential Object Marking in Old Japanese

Cited by 3 publications

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Origin and structure of focus concord constructions in Old Japanese – a synthesis

Origin and structure of focus concord constructions in Old Japanese – a synthesis

Two types of alignment change in nominalizations

Differential argument marking and object movement in Old Japanese

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