Handbook of Japanese Lexicon and Word Formation /

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

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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...

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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
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Physical Description:1 online resource (XL, 707 p.)
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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

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