Ellipsis and wa-marking in Japanese Conversation (Hardcover)

This book investigates the operation of two linguistic mechanisms, ellipsis and wa-marking, in a corpus of colloquial Japanese speech. Its data set is the CallHome Japanese (CHJ) corpus, a collection of transcripts and digitized speech data for 120 telephone conversations between native speakers of Japanese. To make the CHJ data useful for linguistic research, John Fry annotates the original transcripts with a comprehensive set of acoustic, phonetic, syntactic and semantic tags.
John Fry demonstrates that Japanese conversation obeys certain principles of argument ellipsis that appear to be language universal: namely, the tendency to omit transitive and human subjects and the tendency to express no more than one argument per clause. Analyzing the CHJ data further, Fry investigates the use and function of the topic-marking particle wa.

General

Imprint:	Routledge
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Outstanding Dissertations in Linguistics
Release date:	May 2003
First published:	2003
Authors:	John Fry
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 13mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	220
ISBN-13:	978-0-415-96764-8
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Language & linguistics > Semantics (meaning) > General Books > Language & Literature > Language & linguistics > Grammar, syntax, linguistic structure > General
LSN:	0-415-96764-3
Barcode:	9780415967648

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