Essays about: "deictic projection"

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  1. 1. The perfective imperative in Japanese: A further analysis

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Japanska; Lunds universitet/Masterprogram: Språk och språkvetenskap

    Author : Axel Svahn; [2010]
    Keywords : deictic projection; imperative; Japanese; past tense; perfective aspect; -ta; -tari; Aspect; Languages and Literatures;

    Abstract : The present thesis is concerned with a descriptive analysis of a phenomenon in the Japanese language, the use as an imperative of two suffixes of tense and aspect, -ta and -tari. The use of the past tense form (or ta-form) as an imperative in modern Japanese has been touched upon by various scholars, but a detailed account of the construction, its diachrony, and its place in a cross-linguistic context has not previously been performed. READ MORE