直接目的語の指示性 ; The Referentiality of Direct Objects

application/pdf ; The purpose of this article is to elucidate the referentiality of direct objects in Mongolian from the semantic, pragmatic and cognitive viepoints. This language can require an accusative NP or a zero-marked NP in the position of a direct object. The previous studies have explained the occurrence of accusative NPs mainly in terms of semantic properties such as definiteness of specificity. They, however, fail to give us a persuasive explanation of the principles working on the defects, it id demonstrated that the occurrence of accusative NPs follows "the principle of specificity" supported by the identifiability of the speaker/addressee as well as the following types of referentiality: languade-external contextual reference, language-internal contextual reference and cognitively-construed reference. ; 投稿論文 ; departmental bulletin paper