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Topics in Theoretical Asian Linguistics: Studies in honor of John B. Whitman
Edited by Kunio Nishiyama, Hideki Kishimoto and Edith Aldridge
[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today 250] 2018
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Chapter 6
On the distribution of the discourse particles -yo in Korean and -ne in Japanese

| Chung-Ang University | Niigata University
| Chung-Ang University | Niigata University

The purpose of this paper is to provide a preliminary comparative study of the discourse particles -yo in Korean and -ne in Japanese, both of which show up fairly ubiquitously in sentence-medial positions. They appear to have very similar distributions, but a closer look at them reveals that they are systematically different. Elaborating on Yim and Dobashi’s (2015, 2016) prosodic analysis of -yo in Korean, we give a novel account of the distributional differences between -yo and -ne. We propose that -yo and -ne are attached to a phonological phrase and a prosodic word, respectively, in the course of syntax-phonology mapping that proceeds derivationally, and that they are realized as intonational phrases as a result of this derivational procedure.

Keywords: syntax-phonology interface, prosodic domains, sentence-medial discourse particles, Korean, Japanese
Article outline
  • 1.Introduction
  • 2.Basic data
  • 3.An analysis
  • 4.Consequences
  • 5.Conclusion
  • Acknowledgments
  • Notes
  • References
Published online: 12 December 2018
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