Semantic Analysis of the Wa Tautology in Subordinate Clauses with Minimal Independence Degree

Liu Yu; Zhao Junhuai

doi:10.21307/ijanmc-2018-028

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Semantic Analysis of the Wa Tautology in Subordinate Clauses with Minimal Independence Degree

International Journal of Advanced Network, Monitoring and Controls

Volume 3 (2018): Issue 2 (January 2018)

By: Liu Yu and Zhao Junhuai

Open Access

|May 2018

Abstract

Japanese boasts a great variety of tautological expressions, by which these tautologies fall into three categories indicated by particles, namely, ハ (pronounced wa), ガ (pronounced ga) and モ (pronounced mo). Some of which carry certain unusual semantic features when these tautologies are employed in clauses. This paper aims at analyzing the ハ (pronounced wa) tautology in subordinate clauses with minimal independence degree, and exploring the semantic properties of this category.

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