Japanese Generative Grammar
Syntax and Semantics
- 1st Edition - January 1, 1976
- Imprint: Academic Press
- Editor: Masayoshi Shibatani
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 1 - 4 8 3 2 - 0 7 5 6 - 8
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 1 - 4 8 3 2 - 2 0 9 9 - 4
Syntax and Semantics, Volume 5: Japanese Generative Grammar focuses on the systematic application of the theory of generative grammar to the Japanese language. The phenomenon of… Read more
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Request a sales quoteSyntax and Semantics, Volume 5: Japanese Generative Grammar focuses on the systematic application of the theory of generative grammar to the Japanese language. The phenomenon of reflexivization and its relationship to grammatical constructions, and how various grammatical constructions are systematically related to each other, are examined. The theoretical aspects of various grammatical structures of the Japanese language are also discussed. Comprised of 12 chapters, this volume begins with an introduction to the concept of subject in grammar, followed by an analysis of subject raising as a syntactic device in Japanese and other subject–object–verb (SOV) languages. Subsequent chapters explore the syntax and semantics of Japanese reflexivization, passivization, and causativization, along with relativization, complementation, and negation. Tense, aspect, and modality are also considered, along with the semantics of nominal compounds. The book concludes with an assessment of honorification as a salient feature of the Japanese language and the grammatical system of honorifics. This monograph will be of interest to grammarians and linguists.
List of Contributors
Preface
Contents of Previous Volumes
Subject
The Concept of Subject in Grammar
"Nominative" in the Port-Royal Grammar
Subject Raising
Introduction
Subject Raising in Japanese
Subject Raising and Passivization
Reflexivization : A Transformational Approach
Introduction
Basic Conditions on Reflexivization
Emotive Causatives and Backward Reflexivization
Nonagentive Causatives and Backward Reflexivization
Conclusion
Reflexivization: An Interpretive Approach
Introduction
Summary of Past Works on the Reflexive Zibun
The Cyclic Principle and Reflexivization as a Transformation
Interpretation Rules of Japanese Reflexives
Assignment of Preferred Readings
Passivization
Introduction
Background
Evidence for and Against the Nonuniform Theory
An Alternative Analysis of Zibun
Summary and Conclusions
Causativization
Introduction
Morphology
Syntax
Semantics
Integration of Syntax and Semantics
Concluding Remarks
Relativization
Introduction
Conditions on Relativization
'Range Topic' and 'Instance Topic'
Complementation
Background and Scope of this Chapter
Noun versus Predicate Complementation
The Nominalizers Koto and No
The Syntactic Status of Tokoro Complements
Previous Analyses of To Yuu
Survey of Predicate Complementation
Negation
Introduction
Naide Versus Nakute
The Inherent Negative Mai
Neg Raising
The Particle Wa and the Scope of Negation
Negative Polarity Items
Tense, Aspect, and Modality
Introduction
Tense and Aspect in Independent Clauses
Tense and Aspect in Subordinate Clauses
Tense and Aspect in Spatial, Relative, and Verb Complement Clauses
Modality in Independent and Dependent Clauses
Nominal Compounds
Introduction
Compound Types
Arguments against Transformational Analysis
Semantics of Compounds
Conclusion
Honorifics
Introduction
Classification of the Honorifics
Morphology
Titles and Personal (Pro)Nouns
Justification of the Transformational Analysis of Honorification
Subject Honorification
Object Honorification
Honorification in Noun Phrases
Honorification in Complement Constructions
Remarks on Performative Honorifics
Final Remarks
Bibliography
Index
- Edition: 1
- Published: January 1, 1976
- Imprint: Academic Press
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN: 9781483207568
- eBook ISBN: 9781483220994