Japanese conditionals and constructions containing conditional forms

• Thesis title in Czech: Japonské kondicionály a konstrukce, které je obsahují
• Thesis title in English: Japanese conditionals and constructions containing conditional forms
• Key words: Japonské podmienkové konštrukcie|kognitívna gramatika|konštrukčná gramatika|teória Mental Spaces|sémantická analýza|polysémia podmienkových konštrukcií|sémantické prekryvy
• English key words: Japanese conditional constructions|cognitive grammar|construction grammar|Mental Spaces Theory|semantic analysis|polysemy of conditional constructions|semantic overlaps
• Academic year of topic announcement: 2022/2023
• Thesis type: Bachelor's thesis
• Thesis language: angličtina
• Department: Institute of Asian Studies (21-UAS)
• Supervisor: Mgr. Petra Kanasugi, Ph.D.
• Author: hidden - assigned and confirmed by the Study Dept.
• Date of registration: 05.03.2023
• Date of assignment: 06.03.2023
• Administrator's approval: approved
• Confirmed by Study dept. on: 13.03.2023
• Date and time of defence: 12.09.2023 09:00
• Date of electronic submission: 26.07.2023
• Date of proceeded defence: 12.09.2023
• Submitted/finalized: committed by student and finalized
• Opponents: Mgr. Martin Tirala, Ph.D.
• Award: Thesis was put forward for an award

Guidelines

The Japanese language has many varied forms of conditionalwhich have been treated in meticulously in previous research (Masuoka 1993,NihongoKijutsubunpoKenkyukai2011etc.). There are morphologically marked conditionals such asV-tara, V-ba, V-to; conditionals expressed by auxiliary nouns such asbaaior by larger constructions such asV-te waetc. These formsapart from expressing various types of condition such aspredictive, epistemic, counterfactual,arealsopart of numerous constructions. These typicallypartially overlapin their meaning and use but also have their specific traits.
The presentthesis,methodologically anchored in the theory of construction grammar(Langacker 2008), aims to produce a structured survey of these constructions, with the emphasiz on the semantic intersections and nuances that distinguish constructions containing various conditionals.
The resulting model will be supported by examples excerpetd from balanced corpora built by National Institute of Japanese Language and Linguistics.

References

Akatsuka, N. (1985).Conditionalsandepistemicscale.Language61. 625–39.
Arita, S. (2007).Nihongojōkenbuntojiseisetsusei[Japaneseconditionalsandsettledness].Tokyo:KurosioPublishers..
Arita, S. (Ed.)(2017).Nihongojōkenbunnoshosō[AspectsofJapaneseConditionals:GeographicalVariationsandHistoricalShifts].Tokyo:KurosioPublishers.
DirvenR.,AthanasiadouA. (1997). OnConditionalsAgain. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: JohnBenjaminsPublishingCo.
Fujii, S. (2018).Conditionals. In Y.Hasegawa(Ed.),TheCambridge HandbookofJapaneseLinguistics(CambridgeHandbooksinLanguageandLinguistics, pp. 557-584). Cambridge: Cambridge UniversityPress.
Fauconnier, G. (1985).MentalSpaces. Chicago: UniversityofChicagoPress.Reprintedasthe2ndeditionin 1994fromCambridge UniversityPress.
Langacker, RonaldW.(2008)Cognitivegrammar- A BasicIntroduction. New York: Oxford UniversityPress, Inc.
Masuoka,Y.(1993).Nihongonojōkenhyōgen.Tokyo:KurosioPublisher
Masuoka, Y.,ed. (2006).Jōkenhyōgennotaishō.Tokyo:KurosioPublisher
NihongoKijutsubunpoKenkyukai(2011).GendaiNihongoBunpo6.Tokyo:KurosioPublisher
Takubo, Y.ConditionalsinJapanese.In:Jacobsen, Wesley M. andTakubo,Y.(2020), HandbookofJapaneseSemanticsandPragmatics,Berlin, Boston: DeGruyterMouton
Taylor John R. 1995.LinguisticCategorization:PrototypesinLinguisticTheory. 2nded. OxfordEngland:ClarendonPress.