Shared grammaticalization : with special focus on the transeurasian languages / edited by Martine Robbeets, Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz ; Hubert Cuyckens, University of Leuven
Published
Amsterdam : Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2013
pt. I. Shared grammaticalization : typological and theoretical aspects -- pt. II. Shared grammaticalization in the Transeurasian languages -- pt. III. Shared grammaticalization in the Altaic languages -- pt. IV. Shared grammaticalization in Japanese and Korean
Summary
Double-negative periphrastic litotes have been for nearly three centuries the usual way to express necessitive predicates in Japanese and Korean. These constructions do not, however, go back to the earliest stages of these languages and should not be invoked as evidence of a possible common origin. But Korean also has a double-affirmative periphrastic necessitive construction. Premodern Japanese has no overt counterpart to it, but it does have an auxiliary adjective that expresses necessity. I argue that this auxiliary was a grammaticalization of a periphrastic analogous in form and meaning to
