Exclamatory Sentence

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  • 感情表出文
  • カンジョウ ヒョウシュツブン

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This paper attempts to elucidate the nature of ‘emotive sentences’ like Maa, ureshii! ‘Wow, how happy (Iam)!’ in which the speaker involuntarily expresses his emotion, with special focus on the manifestation of experiencer subjects.<BR>The grammatical person of the experiencer subject that an emotive predicate takes is constrained by the mood of the sentence in which it appears. On the one hand, if an emotive predicate appears in a sentence in ‘the mood of the speaker's statement’, the person of its subject is only pragmatically controlled. While the first person is most often found, other persons are also allowed in certain pragmatic contexts. On the other hand, the first person is the only possibility in sentences in ‘the mood of involuntary expression of an emotion’.<BR>Furthermore, several syntactic tests reveal that predicates of sentences in the latter mood do not syntactically manifest either the experiencer or the source of an emotion. In other words, emotive predicates solely constitute sentences in this particular grammatical mood.<BR>Put differently, since neither the experiencer nor the source of an emotion is realized in a one-word emotive sentence, the values of these implied arguments must be inferred from the context of utterance of that sentence.Consequently, the experiencer is automatically understood as the speaker, and the source as a concurring event in the same context.

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