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Japanese Syntax and Semantics
Author | : S.-Y. Kuroda |
Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages | : 382 |
Release | : 2012-12-06 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9401127891 |
1. Two main themes connect the papers on Japanese syntax collected in this volume: movements of noun phrases and case marking, although each in turn relates to other issues in syntax and semantics. These two themes can be traced back to my 1965 MIT dissertation. The problem of the so-called topic marker wa is a perennial problem in Japanese linguistics. I devoted Chapter 2 of my dissertation to the problem of wa. My primary concern there was transformational genera tive syntax. I was interested in the light that Chomsky'S new theory could shed on the understanding of Japanese sentence structure. I generalized the problem of deriving wa-phrases to the problem of deriving phrases accompanied by the quantifier-like particles mo, demo, sae as well as wa. These particles, mo, demo and sae may roughly be equated with a/so, or something like it and even, respectively, and are grouped together with wa under the name of huku-zyosi as a subcategory of particles in Kokugogaku, Japanese scholarship on Japanese grammar. This taxonomy itself is a straightforward consequence of distributional analysis, and does not require the mechanisms of transformational grammar. My transformational analysis of wa, and by extension, that of the other huku zyosi, consisted in formally relating the function of the post-nominal use of wa to that of the post-predicative use by means of what I called an attachment transformation.
Handbook of Japanese Semantics and Pragmatics
Author | : Wesley M. Jacobsen |
Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Total Pages | : 1183 |
Release | : 2020-10-12 |
Genre | : Foreign Language Study |
ISBN | : 1501501054 |
The volume on Semantics and Pragmatics presents a collection of studies on linguistic meaning in Japanese, either as conventionally encoded in linguistic form (the field of semantics) or as generated by the interaction of form with context (the field of pragmatics), representing a range of ideas and approaches that are currently most influentialin these fields. The studies are organized around a model that has long currency in traditional Japanese grammar, whereby the linguistic clause consists of a multiply nested structure centered in a propositional core of objective meaning around which forms are deployed that express progressively more subjective meaning as one moves away from the core toward the periphery of the clause. The volume seeks to achieve a balance in highlighting both insights that semantic and pragmatic theory has to offer to the study of Japanese as a particular language and, conversely, contributions that Japanese has to make to semantic and pragmatic theory in areas of meaning that are either uniquely encoded, or encoded to a higher degree of specificity, in Japanese by comparison to other languages, such as conditional forms, forms expressing varying types of speaker modality, and social deixis.
Handbook of Japanese Contrastive Linguistics
Author | : Prashant Pardeshi |
Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Total Pages | : 814 |
Release | : 2018-02-19 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 1501501216 |
The Handbook of Japanese Contrastive Linguistics is a unique publication that brings together insights from three traditions—Japanese linguistics, linguistic typology and contrastive linguistics—and makes important contributions to deepening our understanding of various phenomena in Japanese as well other languages of the globe. Its primary goal is to uncover principled similarities and differences between Japanese and other languages of the globe and thereby shed new light on the universal as well as language-particular properties of Japanese. The issues addressed by the papers in this volume cover a wide spectrum of phenomena ranging from lexical to syntactic and discourse levels. The authors of the chapters, leading scholars in their respective field of research, present the state-of-the-art research from their respected field.
Sequential Voicing in Japanese
Author | : Timothy J. Vance |
Publisher | : John Benjamins Publishing Company |
Total Pages | : 279 |
Release | : 2016-06-14 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 902726709X |
The papers in this tightly focused collection all report recent research on aspects of rendaku (‘sequential voicing’), the well-known morphophonemic phenomenon in Japanese that affects initial consonants of non-initial elements in complex words (mostly compounds). The papers include broad surveys of theoretical analyses and of psycholinguistic studies, meticulous assessments (some relying on a new database) of many of the factors that putatively inhibit or promote rendaku, an investigation of how learners of Japanese as foreign language deal with rendaku, in-depth examinations of rendaku in a divergent dialect of Japanese and in a Ryukyuan language, and a cross-linguistic exploration of rendaku-like compound markers in unrelated languages. Since rendaku is ubiquitous but recalcitrantly irregular, it provides a challenge for any general theory of morphophonology. This collection should serve both to restrain oversimplified accounts of rendaku and to inspire to further research.
Formal approaches to Japanese linguistics 4 : proceedings of the Fourth Conference on Formal Approaches to Japanese Linguistics
Author | : Yoichi Miyamoto |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 276 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Japanese language |
ISBN | : |
Handbook of Japanese Contrastive Linguistics
Author | : Prashant Pardeshi |
Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Total Pages | : 768 |
Release | : 2018-02-19 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 1614514070 |
The Handbook of Japanese Contrastive Linguistics is a unique publication that brings together insights from three traditions—Japanese linguistics, linguistic typology and contrastive linguistics—and makes important contributions to deepening our understanding of various phenomena in Japanese as well other languages of the globe. Its primary goal is to uncover principled similarities and differences between Japanese and other languages of the globe and thereby shed new light on the universal as well as language-particular properties of Japanese. The issues addressed by the papers in this volume cover a wide spectrum of phenomena ranging from lexical to syntactic and discourse levels. The authors of the chapters, leading scholars in their respective field of research, present the state-of-the-art research from their respected field.
Japanese Linguistics and Language Teaching
Author | : Hawaii Association of Teachers of Japanese |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 1977 |
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