The Light Verb Constructions In Japanese
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Author | : Tadao Miyamoto |
Publisher | : John Benjamins Publishing |
Total Pages | : 249 |
Release | : 2000-02-15 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9027294917 |
This study deals with the so-called Light Verb Construction in Japanese, which consists of the verb “suru” ‘do’ and an accusative (“o”) marked verbal noun (VN). There have been unresolved debates on the role of “suru”: whether “suru” in “VN-o suru” functions as a light or heavy verb. The previous studies attempt to disambiguate “VN-o suru” formations by relying solely on examining whether “suru” can be thematically light or not. This study argues that the ambiguity does not stem from the ‘weight’ of “suru” but from its accusative phrase: whether it is headed by a thematic (complex event) VN or non-thematic (simple event) VN. Using a principles and parameters approach and employing ideas from conceptual semantics and theories of aspect, this study demonstrates that the characterization of “VN-o suru” formations arises not from the dichotic behavior of “suru” but from the dichotic behavior of the accusative phrase.
Author | : Tsutomu Fujinami |
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Total Pages | : 37 |
Release | : 1998 |
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Author | : Tadao Miyamoto |
Publisher | : John Benjamins Publishing |
Total Pages | : 258 |
Release | : 1999-01-01 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9789027227508 |
This study deals with the so-called Light Verb Construction in Japanese, which consists of the verb suru 'do' and an accusative (o) marked verbal noun (VN). There have been unresolved debates on the role of suru: whether suru in VN-o suru functions as a light or heavy verb. The previous studies attempt to disambiguate VN-o suru formations by relying solely on examining whether suru can be thematically light or not. This study argues that the ambiguity does not stem from the 'weight' of suru but from its accusative phrase: whether it is headed by a thematic (complex event) VN or non-thematic (simple event) VN. Using a principles and parameters approach and employing ideas from conceptual semantics and theories of aspect, this study demonstrates that the characterization of VN-o suru formations arises not from the dichotic behavior of suru but from the dichotic behavior of the accusative phrase.
Author | : Heizo Nakajima |
Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter |
Total Pages | : 545 |
Release | : 2011-07-13 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 311085421X |
Author | : Ane Berro |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 362 |
Release | : 2019-05-07 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9004395393 |
This is a collection of articles describing and analyzing several of the most important morphosyntactic features for which the formal comparison between Basque and its surrounding Romance languages is relevant, such as word order, inflection, case, argument structure and causatives. In the context of a language virtually all of whose speakers are bilingual in either Spanish or French, the theoretically informed in-depth description offered in this volume focuses on the fine grain of linguistic structures from languages typologically quite apart but coexisting and probably interacting in the minds of speakers. It therefore aims at shedding some light on the types of interactions between different systems and on the systems themselves.
Author | : Ji Young Shim |
Publisher | : Language Science Press |
Total Pages | : 174 |
Release | : 2021-03-11 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 396110302X |
This monograph is intended as a contribution to the field of bilingualism from a generative syntax perspective at a variety of levels. It investigates code-switching between Korean and English and also between Japanese and English, which exhibit several interesting features. Due to their canonical word order differences, Korean and Japanese being SOV (Subject-Object-Verb) and English SVO (Subject-Verb-Object), a code-switched sentence between Korean/Japanese and English can take, in principle, either OV or VO order, to which little attention has been paid in the literature. On the contrary, word order is one of the most extensively discussed topics in generative syntax, especially in the Principles and Parameter’s approach (P&P) where various proposals have been made to account of various order patterns of different languages. By taking the generative view that linguistic variation is due to variation in the domain of functional categories rather than lexical roots (e.g. Borer 1984; Chomsky 1995), this monograph investigates word order variation in Korean-English and Japanese-English code-switching, with particular attention to the relative placement of the predicate (verb) and its complement (object) in two contrasting word orders, OV and VO, which was tested against Korean-English and Japanese-English bilingual speakers’ introspective judgments. The results provide strong evidence indicating that the distinction between functional and lexical verbs plays a major role in deriving different word orders (OV and VO, respectively) in Korean-English and Japanese-English code-switching, which supports the hypothesis that parametric variation is attributed to differences in the features of a functional category in the lexicon, as assumed in minimalist syntax. In particular, the explanation pursued in this monograph is based on feature inheritance, a syntactic derivational process, which was proposed in recent developments the Minimalist Program. The monograph shows that by studying diverse and creative word order patterns of code-switching, we are at a better disposal to understand how languages are parameterized similarly or differently in a given domain, which is the very topic that generative linguists have pursued for a long time.
Author | : Andrew Spencer |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press (UK) |
Total Pages | : 474 |
Release | : 2013-09 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 0199679924 |
Andrew Spencer argues that inflection and derivation cannot be properly distinguished and that conventional approaches to morphology are fatally flawed. He uses intermediate types of lexical relatedness in a variety of languages (including Slavic, Australian, Germanic, and Romance) to develop an enriched and morphologically-informed model of the lexical entry. He then uses this to build the foundations for a model of lexical relatedness that is consistent withparadigm-based models. This profound and stimulating book will interest morphologists, lexicographers, and theoretical linguists more generally.
Author | : Martin Everaert |
Publisher | : John Wiley & Sons |
Total Pages | : 3285 |
Release | : 2008-04-15 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 1405178418 |
*** Pre-Order The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Syntax, second edition, publishing December 2017. Find out more at www.companiontosyntax.com *** This long-awaited reference work marks the culmination of numerous years of research and international collaboration by the world’s leading syntacticians. There exists no other comparable collection of research that documents the development of syntax in this way. Under the editorial direction of Martin Everaert and Henk van Riemsdijk, this 5 volume set comprises 70 case studies commissioned specifically for this volume. The 80 contributors are drawn from an international group of prestigious linguists, including Joe Emonds, Sandra Chung, Susan Rothstein, Adriana Belletti, Jim Huang, Howard Lasnik, and Marcel den Dikken, among many others. A unique collection of 70 newly-commissioned case studies, offering access to research completed over the last 40 years. Brings together the world’s leading syntacticians to provide a large and diverse number of case studies in the field. Explores a comprehensive range of syntax topics from an historical perspective. Investigates empirical domains which have been well-documented and which have played a prominent role in theoretical syntax at some stage in the development of generative grammar. Serves as a research tool for not only theoretical linguistics but also the various forms of applied linguistics. Contains an accessible alphabetical structure, with an index integral to each volume featuring keywords and key figures. Each multi-volume set is also accompanied by a CD Rom of the entire Companion. Like the prestigious Blackwell Handbooks in Linguistics series, this multi-volume work, in the new The Wiley Blackwell Companions to Linguistics series, can be relied upon to deliver the quality and expertise with which Blackwell Publishing’s linguistics list is associated.
Author | : Jürgen Bohnemeyer |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 215 |
Release | : 2021-09-27 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9004362622 |
These lectures provide one of the first comprehensive introductions to semantic typology, the study of crosslinguistic variation in how languages represent reality. In addition, they survey research methods for field semantics, the study of linguistic meaning under fieldwork conditions.
Author | : Balk?z Öztürk |
Publisher | : John Benjamins Publishing |
Total Pages | : 292 |
Release | : 2005-01-01 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9789027228017 |
This book proposes that the two independent conditions on argumenthood, namely, case and referentiality, are strongly correlated and have to be associated with each other in syntax as syntactic features. It shows that languages exhibit variation in the way this association is implemented in their syntax, which presents an explanation for the differences observed in their phrase structure in terms of (non-)configurationality. Thus, this book not only presents an innovative overarching theory for case and referentiality, but also aims to bring a new look at the issues of (non-)configurationality. It specifically argues for parameterization of functional categories associated with case and referentiality, which has certain implications not only for the acquisition but also for the diachronic development of functional categories. Providing rich comparative data from typologically different languages such as Turkish, Chinese, Hungarian, English and Japanese, this book is of particular interest to typologists as well.