and account for them within the theory of nominalization recently proposed in Shibatani ( 2017 Shibatani, Masayoshi 2017 “ Nominalizations.” In The Handbook of Japanese Syntax, ed.
We thus assume that the Twitter register constitutes a subvariety of Wakamono Kotoba. Twitter, however, sets a unique environment for the users it allows only 140 Japanese characters per post, and the posts are open to the public (Uno 2015, 106). The age group of twitterers who use - mi is not specified in previous studies, but our data suggest that it largely coincides with the age range for Wakamono Kotoba speakers (i.e. We reveal morphosyntactic and functional properties of the nominalizing suffix - mi attested in the social media Twitter, 1 1.It is widely held that - mi is an item of Wakamono Kotoba. The present inquiry provides another theoretically-informed case study of Japanese youth language. , who describe formal and functional properties of the modality-related, clitic-like item poi, and articulate an account within Evaluative Morphology ( Grandi and Körtvélyessy 2015 Grandi, Nicola and Livia Körtvélyessy (eds) 2015 Edinburgh Handbook of Evaluative Morphology. An exception is Seraku and Akiha (2019) Seraku, Tohru, and Takako Akiha 2019 “ Poi in Japanese Wakamono Kotoba ‘Youth Language’.” Lingua 224: 1–15. Still, its grammatical and functional properties have been largely neglected in theoretical studies. , 14), and it has been hotly debated in sociolinguistics ( Coulmas 2013 Coulmas, Florian 2013 Sociolinguistics, 2nd edn. [A study on language variations and changes in Japanese Wakamono Kotoba Published online: 10 November 2020 Table of contentsĮxtensive work has been carried out for grammatical phenomena in dialectal and diachronic varieties of Japanese, but there is another type of variety which has received little attention in theoretical work: Wakamono Kotoba ‘youth language.’ This nonstandard variety of Japanese is mainly used by the teens and twenties ( Horio 2015 Horio, Kei 2015 Wakamono Kotoba-ni-mirareru Gengo Henka-ni-kansuru Kenkyū This framework leads us to describe further unique properties of mi-nominalization, such as “double nominalization” where an already-nominalized form undergoes a further nominalization process and the “sentential use” of a nominalized structure where a nominalized element functions as a sentence, with which an illocutionary speech act is performed. We claim that these properties of - mi are flexibly captured in the framework of nominalization recently proposed by Masayoshi Shibatani. To mention a few, - mi applies to not only an adjective (stem) but also a verb, a noun, a pronoun, their phrasal counterparts, and even an onomatopoeia. This suffix is also used in youth language, but its productivity has expanded considerably. This article explores grammatical and functional properties of mi-nominalizations in Japanese Wakamono Kotoba ‘youth language.’ In the standard variety, the suffix - mi nominalizes an adjective stem: fuka-mi ‘deep- nmlz’ (= ‘profoundness’).
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