通時的構文文法から見た譲歩命令構文「もせよ」の成立 : チャンク化と語彙史の接点

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This paper investigates the constructional expansion of the concessive imperative, or the emergence of the type involving the verb suru 'do' in Late Middle Japanese (13C-16C) in the framework of Diachronic Construction Grammar. The proposal is built on the combination of in-depth morphological analyses of the constituents and the theoretical concept of chunking. The key to elucidating the process resides in the multiplicity of the profile of the sequence mo-seyo; The same syntagmatic sequence may be of different grammatical characters, in terms of the type of suru and the degree of chunking. It is claimed that the increased use of mo-seyo of the type attached to a noun or a Sino-Japanese word (kango) facilitated the chunking, leading to the constructional expansion. The analysis also suggests possible interactions between constructionalization and sociolinguistically-induced changes in the vocabulary of LMJ.

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