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Author Pardeshi, Prashant

Title Handbook of Japanese Contrastive Linguistics
Published Boston : De Gruyter, Inc., 2016

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Description 1 online resource (768 pages)
Series Handbooks of Japanese Language and Linguistics Ser. ; v. 6
Handbooks of Japanese Language and Linguistics Ser
Contents Intro; Preface; Introduction to the Handbooks of Japanese Language and Linguistics; Contributors; Introduction; I. Verbal constructions and related issues; 1. Transitivity in Japanese from a typological perspective; 2. Non-canonical constructions in Japanese: A crosslinguistic perspective; 3. Voice extension in passives and causatives; 4. Causative constructions in Japanese and Korean; 5. Entailed and intended results in Japanese and Burmese accomplishment verbs; 6. Resultative constructions in Japanese from a typological perspective; 7. Verbâ#x80;#x93;Verb compounding in Japanese and Turkish
8. Ainu complex predicates with reference to Japanese9. Motion event descriptions in Japanese from typological perspectives; 10. Deictic motion constructions in Japanese and Thai; 11. Event integration patterns in Sidaama and Japanese; II. Nominal constructions and related issues; 12. Nominalization in crosslinguistic perspective; 13. Clausal noun-modifying constructions; 14. Noun-modifying constructions in Swahili and Japanese; 15. Quantifier float in Japanese and English; 16. Measure nouns and numerals; 17. Japanese spatial deixis in crosslinguistic perspective
18. â#x80;#x98;Whoâ#x80;#x99;, â#x80;#x98;whatâ#x80;#x99;, and â#x80;#x98;whichâ#x80;#x99; in Japanese and Chinese19. Inalienable possession in Japanese, English, and Warrongo; III. Aspect, modality, and prediction; 20. Continuous aspects in Japanese, Newar and Meche; 21. Modality in Japanese from a crosslinguistic perspective; 22. Modality in Japanese and Spanish; 23. Internal state predicates in Japanese and Thai; 24. Property predication in Koryak viewed from Japanese; 25. Subordination and insubordination in Japanese from a crosslinguistic perspective; Subject index
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Subject Japanese language -- Grammar, Comparative
Contrastive linguistics.
Contrastive linguistics.
Japanese language -- Grammar, Comparative.
Form Electronic book
Author Kageyama, Taro
ISBN 9781614514077
1614514070