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There are quite a few conjunctions in Japanese which have been formed via demonstratives. “Sodemonstratives + auxiliary words”, such as sorega, soremo, sorede, soshite and so on have been studied, but... the constructions soshitara and sorenara have not. On the other hand, there are more conjunctions which contain so-demonstratives than those consisting of ko-demonstratives and a-demonstratives. According to Koujien, there exist lexicalized words like korekara, korekiri, koremade do exist, but there are almost no words which include a-demonstratives. This paper investigates the semantic relation between conditional conjunctions and demonstratives, that is to say, the grammaticalization process of demonstratives (not only so-demonstratives, but also ko-demonstratives and the a-demonstratives) and conditional words (“tara” and “nara”). This paper studies the basic and extended meaning of soshitara and sorenara from the perspective of cognitive linguistics in order to explain how the semantic change occurred, through investigating of dictionaries and analyzing examples from corpus data. Only so-demonstratives have been subject to the grammaticalization process because they lie between ko-demonstratives and a-demonstratives. Soushitara (sou+shi+tara) has underwent the grammaticalization process. The change from soushitara to soshitara results from bleaching, because we can analyze the meaning of soushitara, but not the meaning of soshitara.show more
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