Cover not available
Part of
Insubordination
Edited by Nicholas Evans and Honoré Watanabe
[Typological Studies in Language 115] 2016
► pp. 247–282

Chapter 10. Insubordination in Japanese diachronically

| Tohoku University

This chapter is designed to give an overview of insubordination in documented Japanese language history, that is, not including pre-history and reconstruction. While doing so, a number of important issues concerning insubordination are discussed, including borderline cases between insubordination and grammaticalization, types of subordinate clauses particularly prone to insubordination, the relationship between insubordination and inversion, the relationship between insubordination and register, and structural and semantic correlates of insubordination. I further propose to categorize insubordinate constructions in Japanese into ‘open insubordinates’, which invite very broad inference with respect to the information conveyed in the deleted main clause, and ‘closed insubordinates’, which have a fixed interpretation, and can be understood as conveying a conventional implicature.

Published online: 18 November 2016
DOI logo
https://doi.org/10.1075/tsl.115.10nar
References
Evans, Nicholas
2007 Insubordination and its uses. In Finiteness: Theoretical and Empirical Foundations, Irina Nikolaeva (ed.), 366–431. Oxford: OUP.Google Scholar
Fujii, Seiko
2004 Lexically (un)filled constructional schemes and construction types: The case of Japanese modal conditional constructions. In Construction Grammar in a Cross-language Perspective [Constructional Approaches to Language 2], Mirjam Fried & Jan-Ola Östman (eds), 121–155. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. DOI logoGoogle Scholar
Hanazono, Satoru
1999 Jōkenkei fukugō yōgen keishiki no nintei (The recognition of complex conditional verb forms). Kokugogaku 197: 39–53.Google Scholar
Heine, Bernd
2002 On the role of context in grammaticalization. In New Reflections on Grammaticalization [Typological Studies in Language 49], Ilse Wischer & Gabriele Diewald (eds) 83–101. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. DOI logoGoogle Scholar
Higashiizumi, Yuko
2006 From a Subordinate Clause to an Independent Clause. A History of English because-clause and Japanese kara-clause. Tokyo: Hituzi.Google Scholar
Huang, Yan
2007 Pragmatics. Oxford: OUP.Google Scholar
Itoi, Michiharu
2001 Mono wo [mono=wo]. Nihongo bunpō daijiten, Akiho Yamaguchi & Morihide Akimoto (eds), 798–799. Tokyo: Meiji Shoin.Google Scholar
Iwai, Yoshio
1970 Nihon gohōshi. Nara, Heian jidai-hen (The history of Japanese grammar: The Nara and the Heian period). Tokyo: Kasama Shoin.Google Scholar
1971 Nihon gohōshi. Kamakura-jidai-hen (The history of Japanese grammar: The Kamakura period). Tokyo: Kasama Shoin.Google Scholar
1973 Nihon gohōshi. Muromachi-jidai-hen (The history of Japanese grammar: The Edo period). Tokyo: Kasama Shoin.Google Scholar
1976 Genji Monogatari gohōkō (Thoughts on the grammar of the Genji Monogatari). Tokyo: Kasama Shoin.Google Scholar
Kokuritsu Kokugo Kenkyūjo
1960 Hanashi-kotoba no bunkei (1) – Taiwa shiryō ni yoru kenkyū (Patterns of spoken language (1): Research based on conversational materials). Tokyo: Shūei Shuppan.Google Scholar
Martin, Samuel
1975 A Reference Grammar of Japanese. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press.Google Scholar
Matsumoto, Yoshiko
2012 Japanese relative clauses that stand alone. Abstract of presentation at the 22nd Japanese-Korean Linguistics Conference , Tokyo 13th~14thOctober.
Matsumura, Akira
(ed.) 1971 Nihon bunpō daijiten. Tokyo: Meiji Shoin.Google Scholar
Minami, Fujio
1974 Gendai Nihongo no kōzō (Structure of Modern Japanese). Tokyo: Taishūkan.Google Scholar
1997 Gendai Nihongo kenkyū (Research on Modern Japanese grammar). Tokyo: Sanseidō.Google Scholar
Mithun, Marianne
2008 The extension of dependency beyond the sentence. Language 84(1): 69–119. DOI logoGoogle Scholar
NKD: Nihon Kokugo Daijiten Henshū Iinkai
(eds) 2000–2001 Nihon Kokugo daijiten (Great dictionary of the Japanese language), 2nd edn, 14 Vols. Tokyo: Shōgakkan.Google Scholar
Narrog, Heiko
1999 Japanische Verbflexive und flektierbare Verbalsuffixe. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz.Google Scholar
Forthcoming. The morphosyntax of grammaticalization in Japanese. In Syntax [Handbooks of Japanese Language and Linguistics Series], Masayoshi Shibatani (ed.) Berlin Mouton de Gruyter
Narrog, Heiko & Ohori, Toshio
2011 Grammaticalization in Japanese. In The Oxford Handbook of Grammaticalization, Heiko Narrog & Bernd Heine (eds), 775–785. Oxford: OUP. DOI logoGoogle Scholar
Nomura, Takashi
2011 Hanashi-kotoba no Nihonshi (A history of the Japanese spoken language). Tokyo: Yoshikawa Kobunkan.Google Scholar
Ohori, Toshio
1995 Remarks on suspended clauses. In Essays in Semantics and Pragmatics. In Honour of Charles J. Fillmore [Pragmatics & Beyond New Series 32], Masayoshi Shibatani & Sandra A. Thompson (eds), 201–218. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. DOI logoGoogle Scholar
2001 Framing effects in Japanese non-final clauses: Toward an optimal grammar-pragmatics interface. In Proceedings of the 23rd annual meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society February 14–17, 1997, 471–480. Berkeley, CA: Berkeley Linguistics Society.
Quinn, Charles J. Jr
1999 On the origins of Japanese sentence particles ka and zo . In Japanese/Korean Linguistics 6, Ho-Min Sohn & John Haig (eds), 61–89. Stanford, CA: CSLI.Google Scholar
Schwenter, Scott
2001 Sobre la sintaxis de una construcción colloquial: Oraciones independientes con si . Annuari de Filologia 21: 87–100.Google Scholar
Shinzato, Rumiko & Suzuki, Satoko
2007 From quotative conditionals to emotive topic markers: A case of tteba and ttara in Japanese. In Japanese/Korean Linguistics 15, Naomi Hanaoka McGloin & Junko Mori (eds), 173–183. Stanford, CA: CSLI.Google Scholar
Shirakawa, Hiroyuki
2009 Iisashibun no kenkyū (Research on indicating clauses). Tokyo: Kuroshio.Google Scholar
Yamaguchi, Akiho
1971 Nomi [nomi]. Nihon Bunpō daijiten, Matsumura (ed.), 663–664.Google Scholar
Yamaguchi, Akiho & Akimoto, Morihide
2001 Nihongo Bunpō daijiten (Great dictionary of Japanese grammar). Tokyo: Meiji Shoin.Google Scholar
Yamaguchi, Shōji
1998 Chūkogo –te ren’yōku to sono shūhen (Adverbial clauses on –te and related phenomena). Chūkogo no kenkyū, Kiyoji Satō (ed.), 213–247. Tokyo: Meiji Shoin.Google Scholar
Yoshimoto, Kei
2000 Tense and Aspect in Japanese and English, 2nd, revised edn. Bern: Peter Lang.Google Scholar
Yuzawa, Kōkichirō
1936 Tokugawa Jidai gengo no kenkyū – Kamigata-hen. Research on the Tokugawa period language [Kamigata]). Tokyo: Tōkō Shoin.Google Scholar
1957 Zōtei Edo Kotoba no kenkyū (Research on the Edo Language [expanded and revised version]). Tokyo: Meiji Shoin.Google Scholar
1958 Muromachi Jidai gengo no kenkyū (Research on the language of the Muromachi period). Tokyo: Meiji Shoin.Google Scholar

Primary Texts

Genji monogatari vols. 1–6, Nihon Koten Bungaku Zenshū 12–17
with commentaries and a translation into Modern Japanese by Abe Asao, Akiyama Ken und Imai Gen’e, 1970–1976. Tokyo: Shōgakkan.
Heike monogatari, vols. 1–2, Nihon Koten Bungaku Zenshū 29–30
; with commentaries and a translation into Modern Japanese by Ichiko Teiji 1973, 1975 Tokyo: Shōgakkan.Google Scholar
Kokin wakashu, Nihon Koten Bungaku Zenshū 7
; with commentaries and a translation into Modern Japanese by Ozawa Masao 1971 Tokyo: Shōgakkan.Google Scholar
Makura no sōshi, Nihon Koten Bungaku Zenshū 11
, with commentaries and a translation into Modern Japanese by Satoshi Matsuo & Kazuko Nagai 1974 Tokyo: Shōgakkan.Google Scholar
Man’yōshū, Nihon Koten Bungaku Zenshū 2–5
; with commentaries and a translation into Modern Japanese by Kojima Noriyuki, Konoshita Masatoshi, Satake Akihiro 1970–1975 Tokyo: Shōgakkan.Google Scholar
Uji shūishū, Nihon Koten Bungaku Zenshū 28
, with commentaries and a translation into Modern Japanese by Chishō Kobayashi 1973 Tokyo: Shōgakkan.Google Scholar
Ugetsu monogatari, Nihon Koten Bungaku Zenshū 48
; with commentaries and a translation into Modern Japanese by Takada Mamoru 1973 Tokyo: Shōgakkan.Google Scholar
Moraimuko
. In Kyōgenshū, Nihon Koten Bungaku Zenshū 35, with commentaries and a translation into Modern Japanese by Tadao Kitagawa & Amara Yasuda 1972 Tokyo: Shōgakkan.Google Scholar