A STUDY OF MIRATIVITY IN JAPANESE AND TURKISH
Abstract
Mirativity is a relatively recent, notable concept in linguistic typology. It is known that expressions of mirativity have no grammatical connection to evidential systems in many languages, while in other languages, person marking systems and aspectual forms can have meanings associated with new, unexpected knowledge and surprise (Aikhenvald, 2012, p. 436). Turkish is one of the languages in which an evidential marker, -mIş, has mirative extensions. Similarly, in Japanese, mirative meanings are conveyed through the grammatical form -ta. In this study, we present the control of exclamatives and contexts on the mirative meanings comparatively in Turkish and Japanese using Aikhenvald’s classification. Our findings indicate that mirativity is a subclass of modality as a separate category from tense and aspect in both Japanese and Turkish, and their miratives are in relation to evidentiality.
Keywords
References
- Aikhenvald, A., Y. (2012). The essence of mirativity. Linguistic Typology, 16, 435-485.
- Aoki, H. (1986). Evidentials in Japanese. In Wallace Chafe & Johanna Nichols (Eds.), Evidentiality: The linguistic coding of epistemology (pp. 223-238). New Jersey: Ablex Publishing Corporation.
- Chung, H., J. (1993). Nihongo ni okeru -ru, -ta kei to Modariti: Bunmatsu Keishiki wo chuushin ni (The forms -ru, -ta and modality in Japanese: focusing on the sentence final form). Kokugogaku kenkyuu to shiryoo 17. Kokugogaku Kenkyuu to Shiryoo no Kai, 24-34.
- Comrie, B. (1976). Aspect. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.
- DeLancey, S. (1997). Mirativity: The grammatical marking of unexpected information. Linguistic Typology 1, 33-52. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.
- Frawley, W. (1992). Linguistic semantics. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.
- Göksel, A. & Kerslake, C. (2005). Turkish: A Comprehensive Grammar. Routledge, New York.
- Hara, Y, (2006). Japanese discourse items at interfaces (Doctoral Dissertation). University of Delaware, Newark, DE.
Details
Primary Language
English
Subjects
-
Journal Section
Research Article
Publication Date
October 22, 2019
Submission Date
July 18, 2019
Acceptance Date
October 7, 2019
Published in Issue
Year 2019 Volume: 6 Number: 2