Semantic Shift from Conjunction/Causal to Conditional
Yurie Hara
April 2022
 

This paper analyzes the diachronic semantic shift from temporal to conditional via causal in Japanese and German. The core semantics of the V-e-ba or wande/wann/wenn is a conditional in the sense of the suppositional view of conditionals. The temporal and causal meanings in Early Middle Japanese and Early New High German are pragmatically obtained as I-implicatures, while the reason why only the conditional meaning in Present-day Japanese and New High German is available is explained in terms of Q-implicatures.
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Reference: lingbuzz/005925
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keywords: japanese, german, conditional, causal, conjunction, implicatures, semantics
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