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The Meanings and the Uses of the English and the Japanese Present-Time Adverbs
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Journal Title
Bulletin of the Faculty of Education, Wakayama University. Humanities science
Publisher
和歌山大学教育学部
ISSN
1342582X
NCID
AN00257999
Volume
73
Start Page
35
End Page
39
Order
05
Published Date
2023-02-08
Language
jpn
Abstract Alternative
The English adverb now and the Japanese adverb ima (ʻnowʼ) refer to utterance time in their deictic uses, indicate reference time in a narrative context, and mark a topic shift or discontinuity at the beginning of an utterance. This paper focuses on their deictic uses, where they seem to differ in their temporal coverage of meaning. The deictic use of now does not occur in past-tense sentences, but ima does. This paper analyzes their meanings in a unified way to capture both deictic and anaphoric uses of now and ima.
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Departmental Bulletin Paper
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