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Publication details [#16827]
Onishi, Masayuki. 1997. The Grammar of Mental Predicates in Japanese. Language Sciences 19 (3) : 219–233. ![DOI logo](https://benjamins.com/logos/doi-logo.svg)
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
Language as a subject
Place, Publisher
Elsevier
ISBN
0388-0001
Journal WWW
Annotation
The current NSM theory regards six mental predicates-- and --as indefinable semantic universals. This paper examines the syntax of their Japanese exponents (omou, sit-te iru, -tai/hosii, miru, kiku and kimoti).
Special attention is paid to the syntax and semantics of major complementation types (S no, S koto and S to) found with the majority of these predicates. It is shown that each primitive predicate has a specific set of syntactic frames in which the primitive meaning is expressed, and that the extended meanings which may be expressed in other syntactic environments are specifiable by reductive paraphrase explications.