Handbook of Japanese Syntax /

Handbook of Japanese Syntax / / ed. by Masayoshi Shibatani, Shigeru Miyagawa, Hisashi Noda.

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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/F...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Asian Studies Contemporary Collection eBook Package
MitwirkendeR:
Hasegawa, Nobuko,
Iori, Isao,
Ishizuka, Tomoko,
Iwata, Seizi,
Jacobsen, Wesley M.,
Kageyama, Taro,
Kishimoto, Hideki,
Kitagawa, Yoshihisa,
Koizumi, Masatoshi,
Kun, Susumu,
Masuoka, Takashi,
Miyagawa, Shigeru,
Miyamoto, Yoichi,
Narrog, Heiko,
Nishioka, Nobuaki,
Nitta, Yoshio,
Noda, Hisashi,
Ochi, Masao,
Saito, Mamoru,
Shibatani, Masayoshi,
Takami, Ken-ichi,
Tsujimura, Natsuko,
Watanabe, Akira,
Yoshimura, Noriko,
HerausgeberIn:
Miyagawa, Shigeru,
Noda, Hisashi,
Shibatani, Masayoshi,
Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2017]
©2017
Year of Publication:2017
Language:English
Series:Handbooks of Japanese Language and Linguistics [HJLL] , 4
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Physical Description:1 online resource (852 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Preface
  • Introduction to the Handbooks of Japanese Language and Linguistics
  • Table of contents
  • Contributors
  • Introduction
  • 1. Basic sentence structure and grammatical categories
  • 2. Transitivity
  • 3. Topic and subject
  • 4. Toritate: Focusing and defocusing of words, phrases, and clauses
  • 5. The layered structure of the sentence
  • 6. Functional syntax
  • 7. Locative alternation
  • 8. Nominalization
  • 9. The morphosyntax of grammaticalization in Japanese
  • 10. Modality
  • 11. The passive voice
  • 12. Case marking
  • 13. Interfacing syntax with sounds and meanings
  • 14. Subject
  • 15. Numeral quantifiers
  • 16. Relative clauses
  • 17. Expressions that contain negation
  • 18. Ga/no conversion
  • 19. Ellipsis
  • 20. Syntax and argument structure
  • 21. Attributive modification
  • 22. Scrambling
  • Subject index

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