Browsing Conference of the Australian Linguistics Society 2004 by subject "Japanese"
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Setting the Scene: A Comparative Study of the '-te aru' Construction and the Attributive Passive in Japanese
Published 2005-10-10Broadly speaking, the ‘-te aru’ construction and the ‘attributive passive’ construction in Japanese are both de-transitivized, stative constructions that serve to set the scene for the ongoing discourse. In many cases, the ...Conference paper