An Event-Based Semantics for Japanese Emphatic Particles

要旨

Inspired by Herburger (2000), I will develop an event-based semantics for
\nJapanese emphatic particles which can address the issue of the mechanism of
\nassociation with focus involving the emphatic particles. The proposed semantics
\nmakes use of and modifies Herburger's three key ideas: events as basic entities,
\ndecomposition of predicates into subatomic formulas, and separation of
\nbackgrounded and foregrounded information. I will show the resultant DRS
\nnotation can describe the meaning of the emphatic particles very explicitly in
\nterms of the discourse referents involved in the described and compared events,
\nand also account for the interaction of emphatic particles and semantic particles in
\na perspicuous way

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