基本説明
New in paperback. Hardcover was published in 2008. The Oxford Handbook of Japanese Linguistics captures the excitement that comes from answering the question, "What can Japanese say about Universal Grammar?" Each of the eighteen chapters takes up a topic in syntax, morphology, acquisition, processing, phonology, or information structure, and, first of all, lays out the core data, 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.
Full Description
Over the past twenty years or so, the work on Japanese within generative grammar has shifted from primarily using contemporary theory to describe Japanese to contributing directly to general theory, on top of producing extensive analyses of the language. The Oxford Handbook of Japanese Linguistics captures the excitement that comes from answering the question, "What can Japanese say about Universal Grammar?" Each of the eighteen chapters takes up a topic in syntax, morphology, acquisition, processing, phonology, or information structure, and, first of all, lays out the core data, 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. This book will be useful to students and scholars of linguistics who are interested in the latest studies on one of the most extensively studied languages within generative grammar.
Contents
Introduction ; 2. On the Causative Construction ; 3. Japanese -Wa, -Ga, and Information Structure ; 4. Lexical Classes in Phonology ; 5. On Verb Raising ; 6. Nominative Object ; 7. Japanese Accent ; 8. Ga/No Conversion ; 9. Processing Sentences in Japanese ; 10. The Acquisition of Japanese Syntax ; 11. The Syntax of Semnatics of Floating Numeral Quantifiers ; 12. V-V Compounds ; 13. Wh-Questions ; 14. Indeterminate Pronouns ; 15. Noun Phrase Ellipsis ; 16. Ditransitive Constructions ; 17. Prominence Marking in the Japanese Syntax Intonation System ; 18. The Structure of DP ; Author Index ; Subject Index
