Japanese Morphography
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Author | : Gordian Schreiber |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 281 |
Release | : 2022-12-28 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9004504931 |
In Japanese Morphography, Gordian Schreiber takes an in-depth look at texts from pre-modern Japan written exclusively in Chinese characters as morphograms and demonstrates why the language behind the script is, in fact, to be identified as Japanese rather than Chinese.
Author | : Gordian Schreiber |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2023-01-05 |
Genre | : Chinese characters |
ISBN | : 9789004503892 |
In Japanese Morphography, Gordian Schreiber takes an in-depth look at texts from pre-modern Japan written exclusively in Chinese characters as morphograms and demonstrates why the language behind the script is, in fact, to be identified as Japanese rather than Chinese.
Author | : Martine Robbeets |
Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Total Pages | : 568 |
Release | : 2015-07-24 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 3110399946 |
This book deals with shared verb morphology in Japanese and other languages that have been identified as Transeurasian (traditionally: “Altaic”) in previous research. It analyzes shared etymologies and reconstructed grammaticalizations with the goal to provide evidence for the genealogical relatedness of these languages.
Author | : Yoko Sugioka |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 258 |
Release | : 2018-11-05 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 0429684185 |
Originally published in 1986, this book discusses how the proper boundary between the lexicon and syntax should be defined and examines various word formation processes in Japanese and English which involve some interaction of morphology and syntax. It also questions the plausibility of the lexicalist hypothesis as a theory of universal grammar. It proposes a rule typology approach to the syntax/lexicon dichotomy and looks at deverbal nominals and compounds in English and Japanese and discusses their similarities and differences. In particular the important role argument structure plays in morphological derivations is analysed.
Author | : Martine Robbeets |
Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter |
Total Pages | : 544 |
Release | : 2015-06 |
Genre | : Grammar, Comparative and general |
ISBN | : 9783110399950 |
This book deals with shared verb morphology in Japanese and other languages that have been identified as Transeurasian (traditionally: Altaic ) in previous research. It analyzes shared etymologies and reconstructed grammaticalizations with the goal to provide evidence for the genealogical relatedness of these languages."
Author | : Jeroen Weijer |
Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter |
Total Pages | : 412 |
Release | : 2013-12-02 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 3110885980 |
The book contains a number of studies in Japanese phonology and morphology, all analyses by leading scholars in the field. It presents an overview of the work that has been done in Japan and other countries and offers new solutions to long-standing problems. In the phonology chapters, it focuses on segmental as well as suprasegmental issues, including voicing and tone, approaching these issues from a variety of perspectives, including Optimality Theory and Government Phonology. In the morphology chapters, attention is given to truncation patterns and the possibilities for compound formation.
Author | : Mark Joseph Volpe |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 119 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Japanese language |
ISBN | : 9781109853063 |
DISTRIBUTED MORPHOLOGY (DM) (Halle and Marantz, 1993) is a research program in morphology which abandons the traditional generative Lexicon (Chomsky, 1965 and 1995, among many). Recent work argues that all generative processes, including derivational morphology, can be accomplished syntactically, the SINGLE ENGINE HYPOTHESIS (Marantz, 2001). In Chapter 1, I introduce the most recent work within DM which adopts and adapts Chomsky'S DERIVATION BY PHASE HYPOTHESIS to lexical-category formation. I then reanalyze some important and well-known data of Aronoff (1976) in order to show that the single engine hypothesis is motivated and explanatory. Chapter 2 proposes an analysis of two types of common deverbals nominalizations in Japanese. I argue that, actually, only one of the two types is deverbal; the other type is root-derived. Those root-derived nominalizations that contain apparent verbal transitivity markers, the focus of this chapter, raise a paradox for the single engine hypothesis because of their non-compositional semantics. I resolve it by adopting a proposal of den Dikken (1995)'s: anomalous transitivity markers are AFFIXAL PARTICLES. Chapter 3 concentrates on lexical causatives in Japanese. There is a widely-held view among linguists (Harley, 1995, 1996, Levin and Rappaport Hovav, 1995, Pinker, 1989, among many), that a lexical causative cannot be derived from a verb which has an agentive subject. Using observations of Matsumoto (1996) and data from idioms in Japanese I argue that no such semantic criterion applies in Japanese. Given the proper pragmatic reading, all verbs with agentive subject can have a mono-clausal causative partner. To put it another way, all verbs, regardless of their lexical semantics have lexical causatives in Japanese. This seemingly unique characteristic of Japanese is argued to be directly related to the fact that apparent transitivity markers in Japanese are affixal particles as argued in Chapter 2. Chapter 4 concludes with a comparison of transitivity marking in Turkish and Korean with Japanese. I argue differences support the affixal particle analysis for Japanese. The proposed analysis, under standard historical assumptions about Japanese, raises an issue about the diachronic direction of grammaticalizations. With Roberts and Roussou (2003)'s work on grammaticalizations as background, this issue is briefly discussed.
Author | : Taro Kageyama |
Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Total Pages | : 747 |
Release | : 2016-01-29 |
Genre | : Foreign Language Study |
ISBN | : 1501500813 |
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.
Author | : Kazuhiko Fukushima |
Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | : 257 |
Release | : 2022-11-30 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 1498588115 |
In Bracketing Paradox and Direct Compositionality: Montagovian Morphology for Bound Morphemes, Kazuhiko Fukushima resolves bracketing paradoxes in Japanese—morphological vs. semantic incongruity, which supposedly pose insurmountable obstacles to traditional and simple-minded morphology—within morphology (the lexicon) proper. This resolution is achieved through formal semantic apparatus developed by Richard Montague and his followers, hence the label Montagovian Morphology. More generally and theoretically, this book addresses the issue of the optimal interface between morphology, which deals with minimal units of meaning and their combination within a word, and semantics, which handles increasingly larger units of meaning in the sentence. Fukushima argues that the nature of the interface is directly compositional, requiring no complex syntactic supposition or manipulation other than putting words together as is. The author concludes that a semantically reinforced morphological—that is, lexical—approach is superior to a syntactic one for characterizing the mapping between morphological and semantic domains, and that syntax per se cannot supersede morphology.
Author | : Shigeru Miyagawa |
Publisher | : OUP USA |
Total Pages | : 566 |
Release | : 2008-11-03 |
Genre | : Foreign Language Study |
ISBN | : 0195307348 |
The core data is laid out, followed by critical discussion of the various approaches found in the literature. Each chapter ends with a section on how the study of the particular phenomenon in Japanese contributes to our knowledge of general linguistic theory.