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Predicate Morphology and Narrative Structure in Early Heian Japanese Buddhist Texts: A Case Study of the Saidaiji Golden Light Sutra
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Please remind me: A history of the Japanese particle of recollection kke
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In: Proceedings of the Linguistic Society of America; Vol 6, No 1 (2021): Proceedings of the Linguistic Society of America; 421–432 ; 2473-8689 (2021)
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The Japanese sentence-final particle kke is a marker of epistemic modality with evidential and mirative overtones. Its most common application is indexing the uncertainty of one’s recollection in interrogative sentences, but in declarative sentences it indexes a reaffirmation of the certainty of the utterance. This study traces the grammatical development of kke from the older Japanese perfect auxiliary -kyeri, citing examples from 8th-century Japanese through today. Through examining kke’s diachrony, it provides evidence that modal sentence-final particles can develop from auxiliaries when the contexts in which they are used become restricted over time.
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degrammaticalization; epistemic modality; Historical Linguistics; Japanese; sentence-final particles
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URL: https://doi.org/10.3765/plsa.v6i1.4978
http://journals.linguisticsociety.org/proceedings/index.php/PLSA/article/view/4978
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