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Over the years, a major strand of Miyagawa's research has been to
study how syntax, case marking, and argument structure interact. In
particular, Miyagawa's work addresses the nature of the
relationship between syntax and argument structure, and how case
marking and other phenomena help to elucidate this relationship. In
this collection of new and revised pieces, Miyagawa expands and
develops new analyses for numeral quantifier stranding,
ditransitive constructions, nominative/genitive alternation,
"syntactic" analysis of lexical and syntactic causatives, and
historical change in the accusative case marking from Old Japanese
to Modern Japanese. All of these analyses demonstrate an intimate
relation among case marking, argument structure, and word order.
Over the years, a major strand of Miyagawa's research has been
to study how syntax, case marking, and argument structure interact.
In particular, Miyagawa's work addresses the nature of the
relationship between syntax and argument structure, and how case
marking and other phenomena help to elucidate this relationship. In
this collection of new and revised pieces, Miyagawa expands and
develops new analyses for numeral quantifier stranding,
ditransitive constructions, nominative/genitive alternation,
"syntactic" analysis of lexical and syntactic causatives, and
historical change in the accusative case marking from Old Japanese
to Modern Japanese. All of these analyses demonstrate an intimate
relation among case marking, argument structure, and word
order.
Studies of Japanese syntax have played a central role in the long
history of Japanese linguistics spanning more than 250 years in
Japan and abroad. More recently, Japanese has been among the
languages most intensely studied within modern linguistic theories
such as Generative Grammar and Cognitive/Functional Linguistics
over the past fifty years. This volume presents a comprehensive
survey of Japanese syntax from these three research strands, namely
studies based on the traditional research methods developed in
Japan, those from broader functional perspectives, and those
couched in the generative linguistics framework. The twenty-four
studies contained in this volume are characterized by a detailed
analysis of a grammatical phenomenon with broader implications to
general linguistics, making the volume attractive to both
specialists of Japanese and those interested in learning about the
impact of Japanese syntax to the general study of language. Each
chapter is authored by a leading authority on the topic. Broad
issues covered include sentence types (declarative, imperative,
etc.) and their interactions with grammatical verbal categories
(modality, polarity, politeness, etc.), grammatical relations
(topic, subject, etc.), transitivity, nominalizations,
grammaticalization, word order (subject, scrambling, numeral
quantifier, configurationality), case marking (ga/no conversion,
morphology and syntax), modification (adjectives, relative clause),
and structure and interpretation (modality, negation, prosody,
ellipsis). Chapter titles Introduction Chapter 1. Basic structures
of sentences and grammatical categories, Yoshio Nitta, Kansai
University of Foreign Studies Chapter 2: Transitivity, Wesley
Jacobsen, Harvard University Chapter 3: Topic and subject, Takashi
Masuoka, Kobe City University of Foreign Studies Chapter 4:
Toritate: Focusing and defocusing of words, phrases, and clauses,
Hisashi Noda, National Institute for Japanese Language and
Linguistics Chapter 5: The layered structure of the sentence, Isao
Iori, Hitotsubashi University Chapter 6. Functional syntax,
Ken-Ichi Takami, Gakushuin University; and Susumu Kuno, Harvard
University Chapter 7: Locative alternation, Seizi Iwata, Osaka City
University Chapter 8: Nominalizations, Masayoshi Shibatani, Rice
University Chapter 9: The morphosyntax of grammaticalization, Heiko
Narrog, Tohoku University Chapter 10: Modality, Nobuko Hasegawa,
Kanda University of International Studies Chapter 11: The passive
voice, Tomoko Ishizuka, Tama University Chapter 12: Case marking,
Hideki Kishimoto, Kobe University Chapter 13: Interfacing syntax
with sounds and meanings, Yoshihisa Kitagawa, Indiana University
Chapter 14: Subject, Masatoshi Koizumi, Tohoku University Chapter
15: Numeral quantifiers, Shigeru Miyagawa, MIT Chapter 16: Relative
clauses, Yoichi Miyamoto, Osaka University Chapter 17: Expressions
that contain negation, Nobuaki Nishioka, Kyushu University Chapter
18: Ga/No conversion, Masao Ochi, Osaka University Chapter 19:
Ellipsis, Mamoru Saito, Nanzan University Chapter 20: Syntax and
argument structure, Natsuko Tsujimura, Indiana University Chapter
21: Attributive modification, Akira Watanabe, University of Tokyo
Chapter 22: Scrambling, Noriko Yoshimura, Shizuoka Prefectural
University
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.
An argument that agreement and agreementless languages are unified
under an expanded view of grammatical features including both
phi-features and certain discourse configurational features. Much
attention in theoretical linguistics in the generative and
Minimalist traditions is concerned with issues directly or
indirectly related to movement. The EPP (extended projection
principle), introduced by Chomsky in 1981, appeared to coincide
with morphological agreement, and agreement came to play a central
role as the driver of movement and other narrow-syntax operations.
In this book, Shigeru Miyagawa continues his investigation into a
computational equivalent for agreement in agreementless languages
such as Japanese. Miyagawa extends his theory of Strong Uniformity,
introduced in his earlier book, Why Agree? Why Move? Unifying
Agreement-Based and Discourse-Configurational Languages (MIT
Press). He argues that agreement and agreementless languages are
unified under an expanded view of grammatical features including
both phi-features and discourse configurational features of topic
and focus. He looks at various combinations of these two
grammatical features across a number of languages and phenomena,
including allocutive agreement, root phenomena, topicalization,
"why" questions, and case alternation.
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