情景描写テキストにおける時制辞の機能

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This paper investigates cognitive functions the Japanese tense markers bear in simplex sentences in scenedepicting text. The predicate classes are defined as the action, transition, and state predicates, where, within a certain span of time in the past, the first and second are time-dependent, and the last time-invariant. After an analysis of the text by various contemporary writers, the findings are that the combination of action/transition predicates and the past tense marker creates a time flow by activating scenes. In the mean time, spatial elaboration is taken care of by state predicates using both the present and past tense markers. While the present tense as a whole renders spatial description of the scene activated by the past tense of the preceding action/transition predicate, the state predicate plus a past tense marker seems to signal the change in the focus of attention in the situation in the particular time frame.
一般社団法人情報処理学会の論文
1994-10-21