Masen or Nai Desu -That is the question : A case study into Japanese conversational discourse
Masen or Nai Desu -That is the question : A case study into Japanese conversational discourse
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Masen 或 Nai Desu - 这就是问题:日语会话话语的案例研究
DOI:
10.1075/pbns.180.00mas
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发表时间:
2008
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通讯作者:
Etsuko Fukushima
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作者:
S. Uehara;Etsuko Fukushima
Traditionally, Japanese possesses two distinct sets of predicate forms, one for the polite level of speech and the other for the plain level. us, Jorden and Noda (1987), in their textbook, Japanese: e Spoken Language, list the following inflectional paradigms for Verbs, Adjectives and Copulas (Nouns) in Table 1. It should be noted that Adjectives and Copulas (but not Verbs) have two structural variants for their polite style negative forms. For differences between the two polite-style negative variants, however, Jorden and Noda only note, in referring to those forms in the Adjective paradigm, that A-ku arimasen forms, in comparison to A-ku nai desu, are “a bit more formal, and in the view of some speakers, are slightly more elegant”(1987: 41).Two new forms seem to have recently joined, or be emerging in, the Verbal paradigm above, namely, V-nai desu as another polite negative nonpast form, and V-nakatta desu as another polite negative past form, thus yielding for the Verbs the following paradigm in Table 2, analogous to those for Adjectives and Copulas in Table 1.