title: Semantics of Japanese Benefactive Constructions: A Corpus-based Research
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metadata.value: Solomkina, Nataliya A.
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metadata.value: 2022-11-14T16:27:33Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.available
metadata.value: 2022-11-14T16:27:33Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2022-09
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metadata.value: Solomkina N. A. Semantics of Japanese Benefactive Constructions: A Corpus-based Research. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. Asian and African Studies, 2022, vol. 14, issue 3, pp. 469– 487. https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu13.2022.306 (In Russian)
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metadata.value: https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu13.2022.306
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/38557
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metadata.value: As benefactives in other languages of the world, Japanese benefactive constructions can be
  used in various meanings apart from the core benefactive meaning. In previous research their
  semantics is normally described separately for each of the auxiliary verbs, and the research itself
  is based either on introspection or working with sporadic texts and native-speakers. In this
  article we present a qualitative and quantitative analysis of corpora dataset with three groups
  of Japanese benefactive auxiliaries: yaru and ageru, kureru and kudasaru, morau and itadaku.
  For this purpose we propose a set of three semantic features: speaker’s attitude, volitivity of a
  logical subgect and presence of a sentient beneficiary. Combinations of these features underlie
  the definitions of six main meanings we mark out: core benefactive, etiquettical, positive emotivity,
  monstrative, intensification and malefactive. In constructions with yaru auxiliary all of
  the above mentioned meanings are possible except for the positive emotivity. With ageru we
  encounter core benefactive and monstrative and intensification meanings. With kureru auxiliary
  core benefactive, malefactive and positive emotivity meanings turn out to be possible.
  With kudasaru we encounter only core benefactive usage. For morau and itadaku auxiliaries
  we register core benefactive and etiquettical usage. Proposed features, meanings and analysed
  data are applicable for comparative studies of benefactives in other languages as well as for
  further development of semantic description of Japanese benefactives.
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metadata.name: dc.description.sponsorship
metadata.value: The research was funded by the Russian Science Foundation grant no. 22-18-00120 “Polypredication
  in sign and spoken languages: grammar, prosody, discourse”.
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.language.iso
metadata.value: ru
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metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
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metadata.name: dc.relation.ispartofseries
metadata.value: Vestnik of St Petersburg University. Asian and African Studies;Volume 14; Issue 3
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Japanese
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: benefactive constructions
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: directionality verbs
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: benefaction
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: malefaction
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: politeness
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: Semantics of Japanese Benefactive Constructions: A Corpus-based Research
metadata.lang: en_GB
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metadata.value: Article
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