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Record Nr.

UNINA9910796572103321

Titolo

Transitivity and valency alternations : studies on Japanese and beyond / / edited by Taro Kageyama and Wesley M. Jacobsen

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin, [Germany] ; ; Boston, [Massachusetts] : , : De Gruyter Mouton, , 2016

©2016

ISBN

3-11-061069-8

3-11-047530-8

3-11-047715-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (506 pages)

Collana

Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs, , 1861-4302 ; ; Volume 297

Disciplina

495.6

Soggetti

Japanese language

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 at the end of each chapters and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Table of contents -- Introduction -- 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 -- 6. Anticausativization in the northern dialects of Japanese -- 7. Aspect and non-canonical object marking in the Irabu dialect of Ryukyuan -- 8. Japanese transitivity pairs through time – a historical and typological perspective -- 9. The historical source of the bigrade transitivity alternations in Japanese -- 10. Children’s ‘erroneous’ intransitives, transitives, and causatives: their implications for syntactic theory -- 11. Children’s use of morphosyntax and argument structure to infer the meaning of novel transitive and intransitive verbs -- 12. The effect of a ‘conceptualizable’ agent on the use of transitive and intransitive constructions in L2 Japanese -- 13. “Ambivalent voice”: markedness effects in valency change -- 14. Quantitative tests of implicational verb hierarchies -- 15. The role of



morphology in valency alternation phenomena -- Appendix A: List of core transitivity pairs in Japanese (by Yo Matsumoto, a revision of Jacobsen (1992)) -- Appendix B: List of additional transitivity pairs in Japanese (by Yo Matsumoto, a revision of Jacobsen (1992)) -- Subject index

Sommario/riassunto

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.