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Title Handbook of Japanese syntax / edited by Masayoshi Shibatani, Shigeru Miyagawa, Hisashi Noda
Published Boston : De Gruyter, 2017
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Description 1 online resource (xli, 851 pages) : map
Series Handbooks of Japanese Language and Linguistics ; v. 4
Handbooks of Japanese language and linguistics.
Contents Basic sentence structure and grammatical categories / Yoshio Nitta -- Transitivity / Wesley M. Jacobsen -- Topic and subject / Takashi Masuoka -- Toritate: focusing and defocusing of words, phrases, and clauses / Hisashi Noda -- The layered structure of the sentence / Isao Iori -- Functional syntax / Ken-ichi Takami and Susumu Kun -- Locative alternation / Seizi Iwata -- Nominalization / Masayoshi Shibatani -- The morphosyntax of grammaticalization in Japanese / Heiko Narrog -- Modality / Nobuku Hasegawa -- The passive voice / Tomoko Ishizuka -- Case marking / Hideki Kishimoto -- Interfacing syntax with sounds and meanings / Yoshihisa Kitagawa -- Subject / Masatoshi Koizumi -- Numeral quantifiers / Shigeru MIyagawa -- Relative clauses / Yoichi Miyamoto -- Expressions that contain negation / Nobuaki Nishioka -- Ga/no conversion / Masao Ochi -- Ellipsis / Mamoru Saito -- Syntax and argument structure / Natsuko Tsujimura -- Attributive modification / Akira Watanabe -- Scrambling / Noriko Yoshimura
Summary Studies of Japanese syntax have played a central role in the long history of Japanese linguistics spanning more than 250 years in Japan and abroad. More recently, Japanese has been among the languages most intensely studied within modern linguistic theories such as Generative Grammar and Cognitive/Functional Linguistics over the past fifty years. This volume presents a comprehensive survey of Japanese syntax from these three research strands, namely studies based on the traditional research methods developed in Japan, those from broader functional perspectives, and those couched in the generative linguistics framework. The twenty-four studies contained in this volume are characterized by a detailed analysis of a grammatical phenomenon with broader implications to general linguistics, making the volume attractive to both specialists of Japanese and those interested in learning about the impact of Japanese syntax to the general study of language. Each chapter is authored by a leading authority on the topic. Broad issues covered include sentence types (declarative, imperative, etc.) and their interactions with grammatical verbal categories (modality, polarity, politeness, etc.), grammatical relations (topic, subject, etc.), transitivity, nominalizations, grammaticalization, word order (subject, scrambling, numeral quantifier, configurationality), case marking (ga/no conversion, morphology and syntax), modification (adjectives, relative clause), and structure and interpretation (modality, negation, prosody, ellipsis)
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Japanese language -- Sentences
Japanese language -- Syntax
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General.
Japanese language -- Sentences
Japanese language -- Syntax
Form Electronic book
Author Shibatani, Masayoshi, editor
Miyagawa, Shigeru, editor
Noda, Hisashi, editor
ISBN 9781614516613
1614516618
1614517673
9781614517672