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Transitivity and valency alternations : studies on Japanese and beyond /

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.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Kageyama, Tarō, 1949- (Editor ), Jacobsen, Wesley M. (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berlin : De Gruyter Mouton, 2016.
Colección:Trends in linguistics. Studies and monographs ; volume 297.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Table of contents ; Introduction ; I. Standard Japanese ; 1. The semantic basis of Japanese transitiveintransitive derivational patterns ; 2. Phonological and semantic subregularities in noncausative-causative verb pairs in Japanese.
  • 3. Agents in anticausative and decausative compound verbs 4. Valency and case alternations in Japanese ; 5. The role of lexical semantics in the reorganization of the resultative construction ; II. Dialects and Ryukyuan ; 6. Anticausativization in the northern dialects of Japanese.
  • 7. Aspect and non-canonical object marking in the Irabu dialect of Ryukyuan III. History ; 8. Japanese transitivity pairs through time
  • a historical and typological perspective ; 9. The historical source of the bigrade transitivity alternations in Japanese ; IV. Acquisition.
  • 12. The effect of a 'conceptualizable' agent on the use of transitive and intransitive constructions in L2 Japanese V. Beyond Japanese ; 13. "Ambivalent voice": markedness effects in valency change ; 14. Quantitative tests of implicational verb hierarchies.