{"title":"Commas as a constructional resource: the use of a comma in a formulaic expression in Japanese social media texts","authors":"Fumino Horiuchi, Toshihide Nakayama","doi":"10.1515/jjl-2023-2010","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/jjl-2023-2010","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This paper examines the use of punctuation in Japanese in order to investigate its role in formulaic expressions. Specifically, we will study the use of a comma before the copula complex dakedone at the end of an utterance. Typically, punctuation is considered a matter of style in written representations and is generally not included in studies about the structure of formulaic expressions. However, in a corpus-based study on language use on social media (e.g., blogs, Twitter, online forums), we found that this comma is frequently used for a distinct pragmatic effect. The patterns of use, both structural and functional, are observed to be regular and predictable, enough to suggest that the comma is part of a fixed formal complex that has a unique meaning, i.e., a construction. This in turn suggests that commas, even though they are punctuation, can be a formal resource that constitutes part of a formulaic expression.","PeriodicalId":36519,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Japanese Linguistics","volume":"63 1","pages":"145 - 163"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77469516","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Guest Editor’s notes","authors":"Reijirou Shibasaki","doi":"10.1515/jjl-2023-2002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/jjl-2023-2002","url":null,"abstract":"(“No PANE, No Gain: Scaling Attributed Network Embedding in a Single Server”); (f) key innova-tions for bipartite matching that significantly improve the computation of the assignment costs (“Bipartite Matching: What to do in the Real World When Computing Assignment Costs Dominates Finding the Optimal Assignment”); (g) a system that combines the advantages of imperative and functional dataflow systems (“Imperative or Functional Control Flow Handling: Why not the Best of Both Worlds?”); (h) new insights for estimating quantiles in streams with strong theoretical guar-antees, which are already available in the Apache Datasketches library (“Relative Error Streaming Quantiles”); (i) characterizations and answers to foundational questions on the consistency prob-lem for relations under bag semantics (“Structure and Complexity of Bag Consistency”); and (j) an interesting new connection between counting the number of models of a CNF formula and the distinct elements in a data stream (“Model Counting Meets Distinct Elements in a Data Stream”).","PeriodicalId":36519,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Japanese Linguistics","volume":"35 1","pages":"3 - 4"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76039037","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The utterance-final tari site construction in interaction: a general extender as a play stance marker","authors":"H. Takanashi","doi":"10.1515/jjl-2023-2007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/jjl-2023-2007","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Regarding the Japanese utterance-final construction tari site as a general extender, this paper discusses the innovative function of this formulaic expression, the non-final form of tari suru ‘and/or do’, to mark play stance. I argue that the sequential and interactional context where it is used provides the grounds for this construction to function as such, which contributes to building a play frame intersubjectively. General extenders such as English or something are highly pragmatic because, by offering a prototypical exemplar that precedes, the speaker invites the listener to infer the implied vague category. My analysis of tari site in naturally occurring Japanese conversations adds to the existing claim that English fixed expressions are employed to express stances in everyday conversation. Moreover, I found that the play stance marker tari site expresses the speaker’s positive self-presentation, in contrast to one of the previously claimed general extenders’ functions to convey hedges.","PeriodicalId":36519,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Japanese Linguistics","volume":"190 1","pages":"81 - 104"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76100319","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Verb repetition as a template for reactive tokens in Japanese everyday talk","authors":"Ryoko Suzuki, T. Ono, Saori Daiju","doi":"10.1515/jjl-2023-2008","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/jjl-2023-2008","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract A systematic investigation into the first large scale Japanese conversation corpus reveals that repeated verbs (RVs) occurring in the response position tend to involve frequently used verbs such as aru ‘to exist’ and chigau ‘to differ’ (e.g., aru aru aru). Further, longer RVs, those involving more repetition, are even more likely to occur with frequent verbs. In RVs, we find the verb having lost some of its lexical meaning and phonological substance (e.g., chigau > chiga). RVs in fact behave more like pragmatic particles functioning as reactive tokens, i.e., short responses interjected by non-main speakers. RVs as reactive tokens are most clearly observed when they are used together with standard reactive tokens such as hai hai hai hai ‘yes, yes, yes, yes’, so(o) so(o) so(o) ‘yes, yes, yes’, and (i)ya (i)ya (i)ya ‘no, no, no’, which also exhibit repetition and phonological reduction. Verb repetition is thus better understood as a template to turn verbs into reactive tokens.","PeriodicalId":36519,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Japanese Linguistics","volume":"22 1","pages":"105 - 124"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78694502","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Frontmatter","authors":"","doi":"10.1515/jjl-2023-frontmatter1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/jjl-2023-frontmatter1","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":36519,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Japanese Linguistics","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136273494","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Syntactic and lexical -ase- are distinct suffixes","authors":"Brent de Chene","doi":"10.1515/jjl-2022-2058","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/jjl-2022-2058","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract In addition to the syntactic (inflectional) causative suffix -(s)ase-, Japanese displays a lexical (derivational) causative suffix -(a)se- (okur-ase- ‘delay’, no-se- ‘place on’) whose a-zero alternation is general in the stem-level phonology. Because the UR of syntactic -(s)ase- must include the s of its postvocalic alternant, the two suffixes necessarily have distinct phonological forms; there is thus no way to treat them as “high attachment” and “low attachment” versions of a single element. The division of labor between syntactic -(s)ase- and lexical -(a)se- invites the conclusion that no causative suffix is syntactic in some cases and lexical in others; if so, causatives pose no challenge to the position that while Japanese inflectional morphology is the phonological realization of syntactic representations, derivational morphology involves lexical listing of stems. The conclusion that there is no causative suffix that spans the syntactic/lexical boundary is validated by showing that forms that have been taken in the literature as exemplifying lexical -(s)ase- are in fact either lexical -(a)se- or syntactic -(s)ase-. As part of this demonstration, it is shown that, with minor exceptions, verb stems in -ase- have arisen as variants of pre-existing stems in -as-, and an explanation for this ongoing process of replacement is proposed.","PeriodicalId":36519,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Japanese Linguistics","volume":"20 1","pages":"193 - 230"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-09-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81105500","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"To think that constructions and Japanese towa/nante constructions","authors":"Yuji Hatakeyama, K. Honda, Kosuke Tanaka","doi":"10.1515/jjl-2022-2059","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/jjl-2022-2059","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract English has what is called ‘the to think that construction’, in which the subordinate clause (the to-infinitive clause) is used as if it were an independent clause (e.g., To think that she could be so ruthless!). This paper shows that the to think that construction can be divided into two types depending on the contents of the that clauses: one is the “recall” type, in which the that clauses represent a speaker’s knowledge (i.e., his/her past event or experience); and the other is the “surprise” type, in which the that clauses describe an event at the speech time which the speaker regards as unbelievable. This paper further shows that the “surprise” type of the to think that construction corresponds to the Japanese exclamatory sentence, or the towa/nante construction such as Kodomo-ni anna koto-o iw-are-ru {towa/nante}! ‘(Lit.) That my child should say such a thing!’.","PeriodicalId":36519,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Japanese Linguistics","volume":"59 1","pages":"231 - 248"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-09-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78261748","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Kiyoko Toratani (ed.): The Language of Food in Japanese: Cognitive Perspectives and Beyond","authors":"Y. Hasegawa","doi":"10.1515/jjl-2022-2065","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/jjl-2022-2065","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":36519,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Japanese Linguistics","volume":"52 1","pages":"299 - 303"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-09-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80161416","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Taro Kageyama: Ten to sen no gengogaku: Gengo-ruikē-gaku kara mieta Nihongo no honshitsu [Individuals and Links in Language Typology]","authors":"Yoko Sugioka","doi":"10.1515/jjl-2022-2062","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/jjl-2022-2062","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":36519,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Japanese Linguistics","volume":"313 1","pages":"283 - 289"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-09-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76350149","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The nominative-to-accusative shift in Japanese: diachronic and synchronic considerations","authors":"S. Nambu, David Y. Oshima, Shin-ichiro Sano","doi":"10.1515/jjl-2022-2057","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/jjl-2022-2057","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Some Japanese predicates allow their object to be marked either with the accusative particle o, the canonical marker of an object, or with the nominative particle ga, the canonical marker of a subject. This work reports and discusses the results of corpus-based surveys on the patterns and recent trends in nominative-marking on objects. It will be demonstrated: (i) that there has been an increase in the proportion of accusative-marking over nominative-marking in recent times, (ii) that accusative-marking is more likely to be chosen in certain types of subordinate clauses than in matrix clauses, and (iii) that at least with some types of predicates, accusative-marking on the object is more likely when its referent is animate rather than inanimate. It will be argued that the effects of clause type and animacy have to do with the functional motivation to mitigate processing load and the risk of misinterpretation incurred by nominative-marking on objects.","PeriodicalId":36519,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Japanese Linguistics","volume":"6 1","pages":"161 - 191"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-09-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80076016","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}