Transitivity and valency alternations : studies on Japanese and beyond

Transitivity and valency alternations : studies on Japanese and beyond / edited by Taro Kageyama and 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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Other Authors: Kageyama, Tarō, 1949- (Editor), Jacobsen, Wesley M. (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Berlin : De Gruyter Mouton, 2016.
Series:Trends in linguistics. Studies and monographs ; volume 297.
Subjects:
Japanese language > Transitivity.
Linguistics.
FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY > Miscellaneous.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > Linguistics > Semantics.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > Reference.
FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY > Southeast Asian Languages.
Japanese language
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Table of Contents:
  • 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.
  • 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.

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