Handbook of Japanese Lexicon and Word Formation / / ed. by Taro Kageyama, Hideki Kishimoto.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Asian Studies Contemporary Collection eBook Package
• MitwirkendeR: Akita, Kimi,; Irwin, Mark,; Ito, Takane,; Jacobsen, Wesley M.,; Kageyama, Taro,; Kishimoto, Hideki,; Kobayashi, Hideki,; Miyamoto, Tadao,; Nakatani, Kentaro,; Namiki, Takayasu,; Nishiyama, Yuji,; Ono, Naoyuki,; Saito, Michiaki,; Shibatani, Masayoshi,; Sugioka, Yoko,; Takezawa, Koichi,; Tsujimura, Natsuko,; Uehara, Satoshi,; Yamashita, Kiyo,; Yumoto, Yoko,
• HerausgeberIn: Kageyama, Taro,; Kishimoto, Hideki,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2016]; ©2016
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Language: English
• Series: Handbooks of Japanese Language and Linguistics [HJLL] , 3
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (XL, 707 p.)

This volume presents a comprehensive survey of the lexicon and word formation processes in contemporary Japanese, with particular emphasis on their typologically characteristic features and their interactions with syntax and semantics. Through contacts with a variety of languages over more than two thousand years of history, Japanese has developed a complex vocabulary system that is composed of four lexical strata: (i) native Japanese, (ii) mimetic, (iii) Sino-Japanese, and (iv) foreign (especially English). This hybrid composition of the lexicon, coupled with the agglutinative character of the language by which morphology is closely associated with syntax, gives rise to theoretically intriguing interactions with word formation processes that are not easily found with inflectional, isolate, or polysynthetic types of languages.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Preface -- Introduction to the Handbooks of Japanese Language and Linguistics -- Table of contents -- Contributors -- Introduction -- I. Lexicon and vocabulary items -- 1. Vocabulary strata and word formation processes -- 2. Lexical categories -- 3. Sino-Japanese words -- 4. Mimetics -- 5. The morphology of English loanwords -- II. Morphology and word formation -- 6. Word structure and headedness -- 7. Noun-compounding and noun-incorporation -- 8. Verb-compounding and verb-incorporation -- 9. Conversion and deverbal compound nouns -- 10. Derivational affixation in the lexicon and syntax -- 11. Complex predicates with -te gerundive verbs -- 12. Light verb constructions with verbal nouns -- 13. Inflection -- 14. Lexical integrity and the morphologysyntax interface -- III. Word classes and syntactic behavior -- 15. Lexical meaning and temporal aspect -- 16. Stative and existential/possessive predicates -- 17. Agent nominals -- 18. Complement-taking nouns -- 19. Idioms -- Subject index