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The passive in Japanese : a cartographic minimalist approach /
This book describes and analyzes the passive voice system in Japanese within the framework of generative grammar. By unifying different types of passives conventionally distinguished within the literature, the book advances a simple minimalist account where various passive characteristics emerge fro...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam ; Philadelphia :
John Benjamins Pub. Co.,
2012.
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| Colección: | Linguistik aktuell ;
Bd. 192. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- The Passive in Japanese; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Table of contents; List of tables; Abbreviations; A modular analysis of the passive in Japanese; Acknowledgments; Towards a unified theory of Japanese passives; 1.1. The general research program; 1.2. Modularity of grammar; 1.3. The passive voice system in Japanese; 1.3.1. The traditional dichotomy; 1.4. Coalescing the two types of passives; 1.4.1. The polysemy of -rare; 1.4.2. Distributional differences between -rare and -sase; 1.4.3. Indirect passives are pseudo- and genitive passives; 1.5. Research questions.
- 1.6. Framework and theoretical tools1.6.1. The principles and parameters treatment of English passives; 1.6.2. Collins' (2005) smuggling analysis; 1.7. The proposed analysis; 1.7.1. Lexical properties of -rare; 1.7.2. General properties interacting with -rare; 1.7.3. What -rare does not do; 1.8. The data: Grammaticality judgment surveys; 1.9. Outline of the book; The passive morpheme -rare; 2.1. The distribution of -rare; 2.2. The passive -rare is always a functional element; 2.3.-rare as a voice head; 2.3.1. Establishing a pattern with long passivization; 2.3.2.-rare instantiates voice.
- 2.4. Lexical properties of -rare2.4.1. Complementation properties of -rare; 2.4.2. The EPP feature of -rare; 2.4.3. Introducing a dative projection; 2.5. Subject honorifics; 2.6. Summary of the chapter; The derived subject in the passive; 3.1. General properties of Japanese; 3.1.1. The absence of an expletive; 3.1.2. Movement and case; 3.2. The accusative passive; 3.3. Dative and source passives derived from ditransitive verbs; 3.3.1. Addressee of v̀erbs of speaking'; 3.3.2. Theme-raising of the passivized ditransitive verb; 3.3.3. The source passive; 3.4. Passivization of causatives.
- 3.5. Pseudo-passives: Passives with intransitives3.5.1. English pseudo-passives; 3.5.2. Japanese passives derived from obliques; 3.5.3. Postpositional objects incompatible with pseudo-passives; 3.6. The genitive passive; 3.6.1. Genitive passives disguised: Passives requiring context; 3.7. Extra-thematic nominative DPs; 3.8. Summary of the chapter; Ni-passives, ni-yotte-passives, and short passives; 4.1. The ni-phrase; 4.2. The kara-phrase; 4.3. Short passives and ni-yotte passives; 4.3.1. Short passives; 4.3.2. Ni-yotte passives; Revisiting the literature; 5.1. The traditional classification.
- 5.2. Traditional analyses5.2.1. The standard analysis of indirect passives; 5.2.2. Standard analyses of direct passives; 5.2.3. Standard analyses of possessive passives; 5.3. Are indirect passives special?; 5.3.1. Numeral Quantifier Floating; 5.3.2. The distribution of ni-phrases; 5.4. Summary of the chapter; Further support for movement; 6.1. The gap is a trace; 6.1.1. Is the gap a pro?; 6.2. Reconstruction effects; 6.2.1. Scope interactions; 6.2.2. Idiom reconstruction; 6.2.3. The distributive morpheme zutu; 6.3. A- vs. A-movement; 6.3.1. Reanalyzing long-distance passivization.