From its usage as a topic marker to its usage as a sentence-ending particle, I described how the various uses of the postpositional particle “ttara” overlap and expand. First of all, I showed that “ttara” went from being the contracted form of “toittara”, to acquiring an independent meaning that cannot be expressed by “toittara” and, doing so, started to be used as a topic marker, which is its main usage. Furthermore, I showed that, while conserving its evaluative properties, alongside the loss of the predicate, it is being used to “present” or “call again”, and through this is in the process of turning into a sentence-ending particle. Regarding its usage as a sentence-ending particle, adding to its usage as a “re-presentative”, which has already been described in the past, another usage as a marker of “intensity” is also presented in this manuscript. The topic marker “ttara” can be understood in two different ways. On one hand, it is a “re-presentative”, on the other hand, I shed light upon its continuity in relation to “intensity”.
한국일본언어문화학회 [Japanese Language & Culture Association of Korea]
설립연도
2001
분야
인문학>일본어와문학
소개
본 학회는 일본어학 및 일본문학은 물론, 일본의 정치, 경제, 문화, 사회 등의 일본학 전반에 걸친 연구 및 일본의 언어, 문화를 매체로 한 한국과의 비교 연구를 대상으로 하고 있다. 본 학회는 회원들에게 연구 발표 및 정보 교환의 기회를 부여하고 나아가 한국에서의 바람직한 일본 연구 자세를 확립하는 것을 주된 목표로 하고 있다.