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The Handbook of Japanese Contrastive Linguistics is a unique
publication that brings together insights from three
traditions-Japanese linguistics, linguistic typology and
contrastive linguistics-and makes important contributions to
deepening our understanding of various phenomena in Japanese as
well other languages of the globe. Its primary goal is to uncover
principled similarities and differences between Japanese and other
languages of the globe and thereby shed new light on the universal
as well as language-particular properties of Japanese. The issues
addressed by the papers in this volume cover a wide spectrum of
phenomena ranging from lexical to syntactic and discourse levels.
The authors of the chapters, leading scholars in their respective
field of research, present the state-of-the-art research from their
respected field.
This volume presents a comprehensive survey of the lexicon and word
formation processes in contemporary Japanese, with particular
emphasis on their typologically characteristic features and their
interactions with syntax and semantics. Through contacts with a
variety of languages over more than two thousand years of history,
Japanese has developed a complex vocabulary system that is composed
of four lexical strata: (i) native Japanese, (ii) mimetic, (iii)
Sino-Japanese, and (iv) foreign (especially English). This hybrid
composition of the lexicon, coupled with the agglutinative
character of the language by which morphology is closely associated
with syntax, gives rise to theoretically intriguing interactions
with word formation processes that are not easily found with
inflectional, isolate, or polysynthetic types of languages.
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.
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.
This volume is the first to present a detailed survey of the
systems of verb-verb complexes in Asian languages from both a
synchronic and diachronic perspective. Many Asian languages share,
to a greater or lesser extent, a unique class of compound verbs
consisting of a main verb and a quasi-auxiliary verb known as a
'vector' or 'explicator'. These quasi-auxiliary verbs exhibit
unique grammatical behaviour that suggests that they have an
intermediate status between full lexical verbs and wholly reduced
auxiliaries. They are also semantically unique, in that when they
are combined with main verbs, they can convey a rich variety of
functional meanings beyond the traditional notions of tense,
aspect, and modality, such as manner and intensity of action,
benefaction for speaker or hearer, and polite or derogatory styles
in speech. In this book, leading specialists in a range of Asian
languages offer an in-depth analysis of the long-standing questions
relating to the diachrony and geographical distribution of
verb-verb complexes. The findings have implications for the general
understanding of the grammaticalization of verb categories, complex
predicate formation, aktionsart and event semantics, the
morphology-syntax-semantics interface, areal linguistics, and
typology.
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