The passive in Japanese [[electronic resource] ] : a cartographic minimalist approach / / Tomoko Ishizuka

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910465759503321
• Autore: Ishizuka Tomoko <1968->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, : John Benjamins, 2012
• ISBN: 1-283-59428-5; 9786613906731; 90-272-7348-0
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (265 p.)
• Collana: Linguistik aktuell/linguistics today (LA) ; ; v. 192
• Disciplina: 495.6/56
• Soggetti: Japanese language - Voice; Japanese language - Passive voice; Japanese language - Grammar; Japanese language - Syntax; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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 tools 1.6.1. 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 -rare 2.4.1. 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 `verbs 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 analyses 5.2.1. 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; 6.4. Does -rare select for an argument?