Japanese /
"Japanese ranks as the ninth most widely spoken language of the world with more than 127 million speakers in the island state of Japan. Its genetic relation has been a topic of heated discussion, but Altaic and Austronesian languages appear to have contributed to the early formation of this lan...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés Japonés |
Publicado: |
Amsterdam ; Philadelphia :
John Benjamins,
2013.
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Edición: | Revised edition |
Colección: | London Oriental and African language library ;
v. 17. |
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Japanese; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Dedication page; Table of Contents; Preface; Romanization and text presentation; Chapter 1. Overview; 1. Language varieties; 2. Genetic relationships with other languages; 3. Historical periods and important changes in the language; 4. Typological features of Japanese; Chapter 2. Writing system; 1. Early history; 2. The current system; 3. Kanji: Chinese characters; 4. Kana; Appendix A (Hiragana chart); Appendix B (Katakana chart); Chapter 3. Sounds; 1. The inventory of sounds; 1.1 Vowels; 1.2 Consonants; 1.2.1 Phonetic inventory
- 3.2 Numerals and numeral-classifiers 3.2.1 Numerals; 3.2.2 Numeral classifiers and numeric phrases; Morphology; 1. Morphology of the inflectional category; 1.1 Verb morphology; 1.1.1 Verb types; 1.1.2 Onbin (sandhi); 1.1.3 Transitive-intransitive opposition; 1.2 Adjective morphology; 1.3 Copula morphology; 1.4 Polite register inflection paradigms; 2. Word-formation processes; 2.1 Noun equivalents (Lexical nominalization); 2.2 Affixation; 2.3 Compounding; 2.4 Reduplication; 2.5 Clipping and blending; Chapter 6. Argument structures; 1. Argument structure types
- 1.1 Argument structures with stative predicates 1.2 Argument structures with dynamic predicates; 1.3 Argument structure for the reportative verbs; 2. Adjunct noun phrases; 3. Syntactic roles and clausal structures; 3.1 Subjects; 3.2 Objects; Tense and aspect; 1. Tense; 2. Aspect; 2.1 Perfect (anterior) aspect: -ta; 2.2 Perfective aspect; 2.3 Imperfective aspect: Progressive and resultative; 2.3.1 -te-iru; 2.3.1.1 Canonical cases. The -te-iru construction shares great deal of similarities with the English be V-ing construction as the table below shows.
- 2.3.1.2. Extended uses. In the previous section, the unmarked meanings of the -te-iru form with different types of verbs were presented. However, marked, extended meanings may also emerge when a specific context is provided. This includes the resultative 2.3.2 -te-aru; 2.3.3 Summary; 2.4 Marked aspects; 2.4.1 Completive aspect; 2.4.1.1 [VerbINF]-owaru / oeru. The "completive" aspect is expressed by -owaru and -oeru following the infinitive form. These auxiliary verbs have derived from the main verbs, owaru (intransitive) and oeru (transitive), both of which mean 'finish, end.' C