Presentation 2019-07-27
Evidentiality, Modality and Causality
Yurie Hara, Naho Orita, Deng Ying, Takeshi Koshizuka, Hiromu Sakai,
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Abstract(in English) Davis&Hara (2014) and Hara (2017) argue that: 1. The Japanese sentence final auxiliary yooda ‘it seems’ as in (1) is a morpheme of evidentiality which is distinct fromcanonical modal auxiliaries like daroo ‘I bet’ in (2) defined in (3). 2. The semantics of yooda re lies on the notion of causality as informally defined in (4). (1) Ame ga futta yooda. (rain NOM fell EVID) ‘It seems that it rained.’(2) Michi ga nureteru daroo. (road NOM wet I bet) ‘ The streets are wet, I bet.’(3) Daroo(p) is true at f,g,w iff Must(p) is true at f,g, (4) Yooda(p) is defined iff q such that p normally causes q. (presupposition) If defined, Yooda(p) is true at w iff the speakerperceives q at w. (assertion) Corpus and EEG studies were conducted to reveal behavioral and neurological d differences between processing of modals and evidentials.
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Keyword(in English) EvidentialityModalityCausalitycorpusNPMIEEGERPneurolinguistic
Paper # TL2019-13
Date of Issue 2019-07-20 (TL)

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Committee TL
Conference Date 2019/7/27(2days)
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Place (in English) Hirao Seminar House, Konan University
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Topics (in English) Human Language Processing and Learning
Chair Hiroshi Sano(Tokyo Univ. of Foreign Studies)
Vice Chair Tadahisa Kondo(Kogakuin Univ.) / Kazuhiro Takeuchi(Osaka Electro-Comm. Univ.)
Secretary Tadahisa Kondo(Kobe Gakuin Univ.) / Kazuhiro Takeuchi(Kyoto Inst. of Tech.)
Assistant Nobuyuki Jincho(Miidas Co. Ltd.) / Akinori Takada(Ferris Univ.) / Akio Ishikawa(KDDI Research)

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Language ENG
Title (in Japanese) (See Japanese page)
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Title (in English) Evidentiality, Modality and Causality
Sub Title (in English) corpus and neurolinguistic studies
Keyword(1) EvidentialityModalityCausalitycorpusNPMIEEGERPneurolinguistic
1st Author's Name Yurie Hara
1st Author's Affiliation Waseda University(WU)
2nd Author's Name Naho Orita
2nd Author's Affiliation Tokyo University of Science(Tokyo University of Science)
3rd Author's Name Deng Ying
3rd Author's Affiliation The University of Tokyo(UT)
4th Author's Name Takeshi Koshizuka
4th Author's Affiliation okyo University of Science(okyo University of Science)
5th Author's Name Hiromu Sakai
5th Author's Affiliation Waseda University(WU)
Date 2019-07-27
Paper # TL2019-13
Volume (vol) vol.119
Number (no) TL-151
Page pp.pp.15-15(TL),
#Pages 1
Date of Issue 2019-07-20 (TL)