Event Structure and the Japanese Indirect Passive

Ono, Naoyuki

doi:10.1007/978-94-007-5189-7_14

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“…( The role of context on adversative vs. non-adversative interpretations of passive constructions can be seen in other languages as well. Consider the Japanese indirect or possessive passives, which are generally believed to encode adversative meaning (Shibatani 1994;Oshima 2003;Ono 2013). As seen in ( 30), the indirect passive construction has a connotation that the subject Taroo is adversely affected by the event denoted by the predicate, in this case kodomo-ni nak-are-ta 'the crying of the child' (Ono 2013: 313).…”

Section: Development Of Voice Marker -Eci From Adversative To Non-adv...mentioning

confidence: 99%

On the relationship between middles and passives

Ahn

Yap

2021

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Previous studies using diachronic data from the Sejong Historical Corpus have traced the semantic extension of voice marker -eci from middle to passive uses (e.g. Ahn & Yap 2017). In this study, based on data from the Sejong Contemporary Spoken Corpus, we further examine the relationship between middle and passive uses of -eci constructions, with special attention to the neutralization of adversative readings that give rise to generalized (in addition to adversative) middle and passive -eci constructions. Our analysis reveals that judgments about adversative readings in Contemporary Korean are not emergent solely from the semantics of the verb or adjective preceding -eci but additionally are emergent and grounded in the interaction between discourse participants. The distributional characteristics of -eci also show a strong interaction between voice and tense-aspect-mood (tam). There is also some interaction effects from register and text type/genre, particularly in the usage frequency distribution of spontaneous and passive -eci constructions. In addition, contrary to the traditional notion that -eci is essentially a passive marker, in real usage, -eci is still far more frequently used as a middle marker than a passive marker.

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Section: Development Of Voice Marker -Eci From Adversative To Non-adv...mentioning

confidence: 99%