Yurie Hara

Expressives and Identity Conditions

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Dake-wa: exhaustifying assertions

This paper shows that the use of the Japanese exhaustive particle dake ‘only’ in a Contrastive-marked sentence results in exhaustification over potential literal acts of assertion in the sense of [1], rather than exhaustification over propositions. Also, the data supports the idea that the exceptive meaning denoted by dake contributes to an expressive level of meaning.

Evidentiality of Discourse Items and Because-Clauses

There is a parallelism between contrastive marking and evidential marking with respect to their distribution among adjunct clauses. I take this fact to show that both contrastive marking and evidential marking express some attitude towards a closed proposition, following Johnstons (1994) analysis that the semantics of temporal and if-clauses involve event quantification while that of because-clauses is a relation between two particular events. Furthermore, this association between the implicature and the attitude-holder cannot be established in certain constructions, namely adjunct clauses and relative clauses. Hence, I argue that the computation of contrastive marking involves an island-sensitive movement of an operator.