Transitivity and Valency Alternations : : Studies on Japanese and Beyond / / ed. by Taro Kageyama, Wesley M. Jacobsen.
This collection of papers is the first book ever published in English that presents detailed analyses of valency and transitivity alternations in Japanese from multifaceted standpoints: morphology, semantics, syntax, dialects, history, acquisition, and language typology.
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Place / Publishing House: | Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2016] ©2016 |
Year of Publication: | 2016 |
Language: | English |
Series: | Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM] ,
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (VI, 499 p.) |
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Other title: | Frontmatter -- Table of contents -- Introduction -- I. Standard Japanese -- 1 The semantic basis of Japanese transitiveintransitive derivational patterns -- 2. Phonological and semantic subregularities in noncausative-causative verb pairs in Japanese -- 3. Agents in anticausative and decausative compound verbs -- 4. Valency and case alternations in Japanese -- 5. The role of lexical semantics in the reorganization of the resultative construction -- II. Dialects and Ryukyuan -- 6. Anticausativization in the northern dialects of Japanese -- 7. Aspect and non-canonical object marking in the Irabu dialect of Ryukyuan -- III. History -- 8. Japanese transitivity pairs through time – a historical and typological perspective -- 9. The historical source of the bigrade transitivity alternations in Japanese -- IV. Acquisition -- 10. Children’s ‘erroneous’ intransitives, transitives, and causatives: their implications for syntactic theory -- 11. Children’s use of morphosyntax and argument structure to infer the meaning of novel transitive and intransitive verbs -- 12. The effect of a ‘conceptualizable’ agent on the use of transitive and intransitive constructions in L2 Japanese -- V. Beyond Japanese -- 13. “Ambivalent voice”: markedness effects in valency change -- 14. Quantitative tests of implicational verb hierarchies -- 15. The role of morphology in valency alternation phenomena -- Appendix A: List of core transitivity pairs in Japanese (by Yo Matsumoto, a revision of Jacobsen (1992)) -- Appendix B: List of additional transitivity pairs in Japanese (by Yo Matsumoto, a revision of Jacobsen (1992)) -- Subject index |
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Summary: | This collection of papers is the first book ever published in English that presents detailed analyses of valency and transitivity alternations in Japanese from multifaceted standpoints: morphology, semantics, syntax, dialects, history, acquisition, and language typology. |
Format: | Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. |
ISBN: | 9783110477153 9783110762501 9783110701005 9783110742978 9783110485103 9783110485257 |
ISSN: | 1861-4302 ; |
DOI: | 10.1515/9783110477153 |
Access: | restricted access |
Hierarchical level: | Monograph |
Statement of Responsibility: | ed. by Taro Kageyama, Wesley M. Jacobsen. |