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The Semantics and Syntax of the Japanese Gerundive and Infinitive Conjunctions

This paper deals with the semantics and syntax of the gerundive form and infinitive form of verbs in Japanese. While the English conjunction and can serve to connect sentences as well as NPs, Japanese has distinct lexical items on the surface: to for linking NPs and soslte for conjoining sentences. With regard to sentential conjunction, in addition to the above-mentioned soslte 'and', there is another possible way to conjoin sentences, namely by inflecting verbs, adjectives, and nominal adjectives. I call this type of conjunction as Inflectional conjunctions. For verbs and adjectives, two forms are available, which can serve as conjunctions: the gerundive forms V-te and Adj. -ku-te and the infinitive forms \M and Adj. -Jcu (cf. (1) and (2)), but the gerundive form -jie is the only possible form for nominal adjectives (cf. (3U.1