Why Do Japanese Hai and Iie Not Behave Like English Yes and No All the Way?: Consequences of the Non-Sentential Operation of the Japanese Negative Morpheme Nai
Japanese Yes-No particles Hai and Iie are halfway equivalent to English Yes and No, respectively. As long as they are used to answer positive Yes-No questions, Hai is used in Japanese when Yes is, in English, and so are Iie and No. However, in the context of negative Yes-No questions, the correlatio...
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University of Kansas, Department of Linguistics
1998-01-01
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| Series: | Kansas Working Papers in Linguistics |
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/1808/342 |