Truncation and backshift: Two pathways to sentence-final coordinating conjunctions
Truncation and backshift: Two pathways to sentence-final coordinating conjunctions
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截断和后移：句末并列连词的两种途径
DOI：
10.1075/jhp.15.1.04izu
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发表时间：
2014
影响因子：
0.8
通讯作者：
Katsunobu Izutsu
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作者：
Mitsuko Narita Izutsu;Katsunobu Izutsu
本文讨论英语和日语某些方言变体中所谓的句末并列连词。它强调这种最终并列连词源自两个句法上不同的过程（“截断”和“后移”），并证明源自每个过程的最终连词在句法、韵律和语篇语用术语上相应不同。在英语和日语中，后移类型的句末并列连词（i）可以前置到句/从句开头位置，没有语义/逻辑矛盾，（ii）具有句末轮廓，（iii）不能容忍后面有填充物或插入词，以及（iv）表达强调或情感意义。另一方面，句末并列连词的截断型则表现出相反的特征。在两种类型的句末并列连词中观察到的跨语言共性强烈表明，它们的语篇语用意义与句法/语法库（例如截断、后移和句末位置）存在跨语言关联。
This article deals with so-called sentence-final coordinating conjunctions in some dialectal varieties of English and Japanese. It emphasises that such final coordinating conjunctions derive from two syntactically different processes (“truncation” and “backshift”), and demonstrates that the final conjunctions stemming from each process differ accordingly in syntactic, prosodic, and discourse-pragmatic terms. In both English and Japanese, the backshift type of sentence-final coordinating conjunctions (i) can be fronted to sentence/clause-initial position with no semantic/logical contradiction, (ii) have a sentence-final contour, (iii) do not tolerate being followed by a filler or interjectory particle, and (iv) express emphatic or emotive meanings. On the other hand, the truncation type of sentence-final coordinating conjunctions show the opposite characteristics. The cross-linguistic commonality observed in each of the two types of sentence-final coordinating conjunctions strongly suggests that their discourse-pragmatic meanings are cross-linguistically associated with syntactic/grammatical repertoires, such as truncation, backshift, and sentence-final position.