THE SEMANTIC NATURE OF TENSE AMBIGUITY: RESOLVING TENSE AND ASPECT IN JAPANESE PHRASAL CONSTRUCTIONS

The nature of tense in classical Japanese is vague and uncertain, sometimes appearing to be interpretable by combinations of particular verbs with specific verbal auxiliaries and sometimes appearing to be absent altogether. The present study introduces a series of these so-called tense-bearing auxil...

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Main Author: Bruno, Annabelle T.
Format: Others
Published: UKnowledge 2017
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Online Access:http://uknowledge.uky.edu/ltt_etds/24
http://uknowledge.uky.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1021&context=ltt_etds