tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6081182719533619529.post1786722667633271521..comments2024-03-23T03:05:00.635-07:00Comments on Japanese with Anime: ~i ~い CopulaUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6081182719533619529.post-76404599615379360672022-11-23T20:56:50.732-08:002022-11-23T20:56:50.732-08:00Please allow me one last comment.
I appreciate th...Please allow me one last comment. <br />I appreciate this unpopular and by many learners dismissed point of view because it brings clarity. <br />I sent you the paper because I wanted to share with you a viewpoint that differs from yours. Therefore I am thankful for your share of knowledge and linking of the paper you talked about, and your time. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6081182719533619529.post-7030498476464142612022-11-23T20:24:20.934-08:002022-11-23T20:24:20.934-08:00https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Fuzhen-Si-2/p...https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Fuzhen-Si-2/publication/340022794_2017-Si_Fuzhen-Studies_on_Syntactic_Cartography-full_text/links/5e7323f4299bf1571848c5f1/2017-Si-Fuzhen-Studies-on-Syntactic-Cartography-full-text.pdf#page=378<br /><br />Their paper starts at page 371.<br /><br />From the paper you linked, page 43, it reads:<br /><br />Notice that the morphemes occurring in (3a) (and (1)) Leohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05886352405447366876noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6081182719533619529.post-42621957076383198792022-11-23T15:58:20.779-08:002022-11-23T15:58:20.779-08:00Hello Leo, thank you for your answer. May I ask wh...Hello Leo, thank you for your answer. May I ask where you found "Masaharu Shimada in Apparent Omission of Inflectional Endings in Japanese Adjectives"? My internet searches have not been very rewarding. <br />I found a list of his research here at researchmap.jp, however, none of the publications is the one in question. <br /><br />Anyways, I found this thesis here: <br />https://Jonesnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6081182719533619529.post-8212678923518088252022-11-23T03:11:19.294-08:002022-11-23T03:11:19.294-08:00Hello. Whether you classify it as a copula or not ...Hello. Whether you classify it as a copula or not isn't very important, so sources that classify ~i as a copula generally won't claim "it is a copula" literally. Instead, they'll just use "COP" (for copula) to label the morpheme's function in analysis, e.g.<br /><br />utsukushi.i becomes beautiful.COP because ~i stands for COPula and the stem utsukushi~ stands Leohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05886352405447366876noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6081182719533619529.post-42707178095999545132022-11-22T18:01:12.700-08:002022-11-22T18:01:12.700-08:00Do your three sources mention "Copula"? ...Do your three sources mention "Copula"? Because people online seem to disagree with the idea of the i suffix being anything close to a copula or even copulative. I burn for an answer, I would love to hear from you. Jonesnoreply@blogger.com