|
Books > Language & Literature > Language & linguistics > Grammar, syntax, linguistic structure
|
Buy Now
Japanese Syntax and Semantics - Collected Papers (Hardcover, 1992 ed.)
Loot Price: R7,752
Discovery Miles 77 520
|
|
|
Japanese Syntax and Semantics - Collected Papers (Hardcover, 1992 ed.)
Series: Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory, 27
Expected to ship within 12 - 19 working days
|
1. Two main themes connect the papers on Japanese syntax collected
in this volume: movements of noun phrases and case marking,
although each in turn relates to other issues in syntax and
semantics. These two themes can be traced back to my 1965 MIT
dissertation. The problem of the so-called topic marker wa is a
perennial problem in Japanese linguistics. I devoted Chapter 2 of
my dissertation to the problem of wa. My primary concern there was
transformational genera tive syntax. I was interested in the light
that Chomsky'S new theory could shed on the understanding of
Japanese sentence structure. I generalized the problem of deriving
wa-phrases to the problem of deriving phrases accompanied by the
quantifier-like particles mo, demo, sae as well as wa. These
particles, mo, demo and sae may roughly be equated with a/so, or
something like it and even, respectively, and are grouped together
with wa under the name of huku-zyosi as a subcategory of particles
in Kokugogaku, Japanese scholarship on Japanese grammar. This
taxonomy itself is a straightforward consequence of distributional
analysis, and does not require the mechanisms of transformational
grammar. My transformational analysis of wa, and by extension, that
of the other huku zyosi, consisted in formally relating the
function of the post-nominal use of wa to that of the
post-predicative use by means of what I called an attachment
transformation."
General
Is the information for this product incomplete, wrong or inappropriate?
Let us know about it.
Does this product have an incorrect or missing image?
Send us a new image.
Is this product missing categories?
Add more categories.
Review This Product
No reviews yet - be the first to create one!
|
You might also like..
|
Email address subscribed successfully.
A activation email has been sent to you.
Please click the link in that email to activate your subscription.
Welcome to Loot.co.za!
Sign in / Register |Wishlists & Gift Vouchers |Help | Advanced search
