Japanese temporal connectives

Lexical entries for the Japanese temporal connectives mae 'before' and ato 'after'. A mae-clause takes the non-past tense even under a past matrix and an ato-clause the past, the asymmetry that [AK98] and [OST24] analyse.

References

• [Ogi96]
• [AK98]
• [OST24]

def Japanese.TemporalConnectives.mae : Tense.Connective

mae 前 'before', with a non-past complement.

Equations

• Japanese.TemporalConnectives.mae = { form := "mae", relation := Tense.Connective.Relation.before }

def Japanese.TemporalConnectives.ato : Tense.Connective

ato 後 'after', with a past complement.

Equations

• Japanese.TemporalConnectives.ato = { form := "ato", relation := Tense.Connective.Relation.after }