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On “Substance-Like” Situations: A Contrastive Study Of Noun-Verb Analogy In Russian And Japanese

Author(s): Yurico Kaneko
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Theoretical Linguistics, Comparative Linguistics
Published by: Пловдивски университет »Паисий Хилендарски«
Keywords: numeral classifier; verb classifier; aspect; Japanese; Russian
Summary/Abstract: This paper explores the traits of noun-verb analogy within aspectual categories in Japanese, a numeral classifier language, and Russian, a grammatical number language. According to the Verb Classifier Hypothesis in Slavic languages, Janda (2022:167) metaphorically characterizes perfective aspect as a “discrete solid object” and imperfective aspect as a “fluid substance”. Building on this framework, I argue that the homogeneous, part-whole structure underlying Japanese nouns – and, by extension, bare verbs – enables multiple aspectual interpretations of a situation, resulting in a broader semantic range than that of Russian imperfective verbs. In contrast, in Russian, the aspectual pairing of imperfective and perfective verbs generates heterogeneity within a situation, a property fundamentally linked to the conceptualization of countable objects.

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