Object's details: Casting a new ‘eye’ on an elusive suffix: The use and origin(s) of Japanese dialectal suffix ‘-me’

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Title:
Casting a new ‘eye’ on an elusive suffix: The use and origin(s) of Japanese dialectal suffix ‘-me’
Creator:
Baudel, Étienne
Description:
In several regions of Japan, various dialects exhibit a peculiar suffix -me, which mostly attaches to animal names, and seems to carry out various functions. The exact nature of its use is, to some extent, still unclear, since this -me is alternatively described as expressing endearment, familiarity or smallness, or, on the contrary, depreciation, fear or distance (which lead to some authors regarding it as two different homophonous suffixes). On a more grammatical scale, its relationships with definiteness, with plural and collective number and with animacy have also been questioned. Thus, this article aims at examining the different uses of -me in Japanese dialects, and its possible connection with other suffixes, in order to tackle the question of its origin(s).
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free access
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Prawa autorskie (c) 2025 Étienne Baudel;
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/4.0/
Date:
2025.07.18
Type:
info:eu-repo/semantics/article;
info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
Language:
English
Source:
Lingua Posnaniensis; Vol. 66 No. 2 (2024); 7-31;
Lingua Posnaniensis; Tom 66 Nr 2 (2024); 7-31;
2083-6090;
0079-4740
Format:
application/pdf
Publisher:
Adam Mickiewicz University Poznan
Relation: http://pressto.amu.edu.pl/index.php/linpo/article/view/49069/39848
Subject:
Japanese;
dialectology;
lexicology;
suffixation;
lexical semantics
Identifier: http://pressto.amu.edu.pl/index.php/linpo/article/view/49069
Data provider:
Platforma Otwartych Czasopism Naukowych UAM

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