Yasuhiro Fujinawa

List of John Benjamins publications for which Yasuhiro Fujinawa plays a role.

Title

Thetics and Categoricals

Edited by Werner Abraham, Elisabeth Leiss and Yasuhiro Fujinawa

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 262] 2020. vii, 390 pp.
Subjects Semantics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics

Article

Fujinawa, Yasuhiro 2020 Pseudocategorical or purely thetic? A contrastive case study of how thetic statements are expressed in Japanese, English, and GermanThetics and Categoricals, Abraham, Werner, Elisabeth Leiss and Yasuhiro Fujinawa (eds.), pp. 283–310 | Chapter
According to Marty (1918), thetic statements differ from categorical ones in making a simple existential recognition or rejection rather than a predication. In Japanese, where two subject particles, ga and wa, are presumably available for this differentiation (Kuroda 1972), the point can be… read more