Timeline for で in the copula である
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| Jun 14, 2019 at 8:04 | history | bumped | CommunityBot | This question has answers that may be good or bad; the system has marked it active so that they can be reviewed. | |
| May 15, 2019 at 8:03 | answer | added | katatahito | timeline score: 4 | |
| May 14, 2019 at 19:10 | comment | added | Kaskade | I'm sorry to have caused confusion... To put it clearly: I'm more interested in how it functions currently. However, I wanted to take its history into account as well because I thought that doing so might make today's usage of である easier to understand (by looking at how it came to be). | |
| May 14, 2019 at 18:49 | comment | added | Eiríkr Útlendi | Unfortunately, now I'm more confused: you say, "I was interested in the history", and then you say "So you could say I'm more interested in the current state". Does that mean you're not interested in the history, and you're only interested in the modern language and analyses of how it functions currently? | |
| May 14, 2019 at 18:22 | comment | added | Kaskade | I was interested in the history of である because knowing it will probably make it easier to understand how this construction works nowadays. So you could say I'm more interested in the current state of である. | |
| May 14, 2019 at 17:50 | comment | added | Eiríkr Útlendi | As snailboat mentioned, synchronic ("with the time" → within a single point of time) and diachronic ("through time" → looking at historical development) analyses are very different things. Your question appears to be asking about historical development -- a diachronic view -- whereas Kunio's analysis appears to be looking just at the modern language -- a synchronic view. Could you clarify your question as to whether you're interested more in the history, or the current state? | |
| May 14, 2019 at 15:01 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackJapanese/status/1128314283933274113 | ||
| May 14, 2019 at 12:02 | history | asked | Kaskade | CC BY-SA 4.0 |