Topic: HUMAN SEMANTICS
Two Japanese Adverbials and Expressive Content
by Eric McCready
Source: Semantics Archive
This paper considers the semantics and pragmatics of two Japanese adverbial expressions, yoku and yokumo, instances of which are shown in (1) and (2).
The purpose of the present paper is to describe the meaning, distribution, and felicity conditions of these adverbials, and to provide a formal account of them within a version of dynamic semantics.
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Updated: Wednesday, 15 September 2004 00:17 BST
