A Collostructional Analysis of Japanese Kara Passive
This research focuses on a special kind of passive in Japanese—the kara passive,in which agent is marked by the source marker kara rather than the normally used agent marker ni.In order to answer the question of when and why the kara passive is used,collostructional analysis is applied to find out the interaction between verb and construction,and is taken as a clue to figure out the prototypical semantic features of the kara passive,which is to describe a"delivery-reception"event from the perspective of a recipient.Due to such semantic feature,the kara passive has to meet the following two requirements:1)The recipient focuses on the source of the mover;2)The sender indirectly affects the recipient.
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