「ノダ」をもたない方言の諸相

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Noda is a very important element in contemporary Standard Japanese. It is widely accepted as having derived from the combination of no, the nominalizing particle, and da, the so-called auxiliary of assertion. Some of its many usages are best understood in terms of this origin, while others are more naturally explained if noda is regarded as an unanalyzable unit. In this article, several dialects which lack a form directly corresponding to noda are discussed. It is claimed that some of these dialects retain the NP-modifying form (rentaikei) which existed in earlier forms of Japanese, while other dialects, including Standard Japanese, have lost it. It is also shown that independently from this classification, Japanese dialects fall into two groups, one in which the expression of uncertainty is directly descended from that in earlier Japanese, and one in which the expression of uncertainty has formally merged with the auxiliary of assertion as a result of reanalysis.
2005-03-15