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Publication details [#30060]

Shinzato, Rumiko. 2002. Cognition, epistemic scale, and functions of the Old Japanese question particle ka. Linguistics 40 (3) : 553–578.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

cognition | epistemology | function | meaning | particle

Language as a subject

Japanese, Old

Place, Publisher

De Gruyter Mouton

ISBN

0024-3949

Journal WWW

www.degruyter.com/journal/key/LING/html

Annotation

This paper examines seemingly diverse and unrelated meanings of the question particle KA: in Old Japanese and argues that all these meanings can be explained in a unified way by a single principle, speaker attitude, which seems deeply connected with human cognitive processes.