Open AccessTense intervention effect in negative emphasis: A case study in Japanese
Author(s) -
Yuki Ishihara
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
proceedings of the linguistic society of america
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2473-8689
DOI - 10.3765/plsa.v3i1.4336
Subject(s) - negation , predicate (mathematical logic) , emphasis (telecommunications) , linguistics , locality , past tense , adjunct , mathematics , computer science , philosophy , programming language , telecommunications , verb
This paper investigates two types of predicate emphasis constructions in Japanese: the Affirmative Negative Emphatic Construction and the Emphatic Iterative Construction. It observes that a negative predicate cannot be in past tense in these constructions, and claims that a locality constraint holds between Emphasis and Negation. It suggests that a special property of a past tense form of negation in Japanese can be attributed to a morphological reanalysis.