Ga/o kootai no teiryooteki bunseki

Satoshi Nambu; Shin-ichiro Sano

Ga/o kootai no teiryooteki bunseki

Translated title of the contribution: A quantitative study on Ga/o alternation: Quantitative analysis of Nominative/accusative alternation in Japanese

Satoshi Nambu, Shin-ichiro Sano

Japanese Studies

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Abstract

n Modern Japanese, direct objects with certain predicates can take either ‘ga’ or ‘o’ (e.g. Tokieda 1950, Kuno 1973, Shibatani 1978).
(1) a. Ken-wa sushi-ga/o tabeta. ‘Ken can eat sushi.’
b. Ken-wa yakitori-ga/o tabetai. ‘Ken wants to eat yakitori.’
c. Ken-wa namazakana-ga/o taberareru. ‘Ken can eat raw fish.’
Using data obtained from a corpus, this article analyzes this phenomenon (hereafter ‘ga/o’ alternation) quantitatively regarding its use as well as its ongoing change from a perspective of the variation theory/variationist sociolinguistics.

Translated title of the contribution	A quantitative study on Ga/o alternation: Quantitative analysis of Nominative/accusative alternation in Japanese
Original language	Japanese
Title of host publication	Koopasu kara wakaru gengo henka/hen'i to gengo riron 2
Editors	Yoshiki Ogawa
Place of Publication	Tokyo Japan
Publisher	Kaitakusha
Pages	289-304
Number of pages	16
ISBN (Print)	4758922764, 9784758922760
Publication status	Published - 2019

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