Timeline for What does 行っている mean?
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| Mar 21 at 3:21 | comment | added | naruto | @Zorf It means both; the interpretation depends on whether the context is "Where is he now?" or "Has he ever been in Japan?". | |
| Mar 21 at 2:38 | comment | added | Zorf | Does the same apply to “来ている” as in, can “東京に来ている” also mean that someone went to Tokyo and then returned, or only that someone is currently in Tokyo? | |
| Jan 13, 2021 at 1:54 | comment | added | Healer | Thanks for your patience with me. I appreciate very much the help you have afforded me. | |
| Jan 11, 2021 at 3:39 | comment | added | naruto | @Healer You're right, it has little to do with the interpretation of 行っている. But as I said, there was no reason to use such a nuanced particle in your simple example just to complicate things. The default particle is は, and I did not want to use "It is Taro who..." many times in my answer. I can't "close" this question, so please read this. | |
| Jan 11, 2021 at 1:25 | comment | added | Healer | Thanks for your explanation but whether it is が or は it doesn’t affect the grammatical structure I ask about of the sentence in question, does it? Anyway I have taken a lot of your time. Thanks a lot. I take the answer to my question all depends on the context. So you can close this question now. | |
| Jan 9, 2021 at 3:20 | comment | added | naruto | @Healer Exhaustive-ga requires a previous context. For example 太郎が学生です sounds very strange when presented on its own (in English, who says "Taro is the one who is the student" without context?). See this, too. | |
| Jan 9, 2021 at 2:03 | comment | added | Healer | I have read japanese.stackexchange.com/questions/24324/… and I can't see the necessity of changing が to は for the grammar structure I have in question. Perhaps I still miss something. | |
| Jan 8, 2021 at 2:37 | comment | added | Healer | Thanks for your comment again! I had realized that ことがある has only one function and the one in question is not and that's where my question is. I don't understand why you said "Let me use は instead of exhaustive-listing-が to make things simpler." How does it affect the grammar in this context? Thanks! | |
| Jan 5, 2021 at 2:16 | comment | added | naruto | @Healer ことがある has only one function, to neutrally describe one's past experience. ている can describe a similar thing, but it implies that experience is somehow important in the situation at hand. For example ハムレットを読んだことがありますか is just "Have you ever read Hamlet?", but ハムレットを読んでいますか sounds like it's a prerequisite of today's lecture. Some academic books use が more often than usual because it's simpler from a linguistic point of view, but in real natural sentences, は is used unless you really want the exhaustive-listing-が. As I said, (22)b is ambiguous. | |
| Jan 5, 2021 at 1:57 | comment | added | Healer | You suggested that it could depend on context. However where I got this example sentence, faculty.washington.edu/ogihara/papers/Ogihara_handbook.pdf (22) b. & d., seems to be definite with what it means. I wouldn’t say I fully understand everything written there, especially in terms of aspect. That’s probably why and where I’ve got lost. | |
| Jan 5, 2021 at 1:57 | comment | added | Healer | I’m not sure how replacing が with は affects the meaning of the sentences. I had learnt that ~行っている means either someone has arrived and is still around as well as for any repetitive or habitual action like what any ~ている verb does. So are 来ている and 帰っている as I came across the latter in the recommended thread. However I have never learnt any ~ている verb that refers to something that one has had experience of. If that is possible, how would it compare to ことがある then? | |
| Dec 31, 2020 at 5:42 | history | answered | naruto | CC BY-SA 4.0 |