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Record Nr.

UNINA9910810191703321

Autore

Endo Yoshio <1960->

Titolo

Locality and information structure : a cartographic approach to Japanese / / Yoshio Endo

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, : John Benjamins Pub., c2007

ISBN

1-282-15260-2

9786612152603

90-272-9195-0

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (248 p.)

Collana

Linguistik aktuell = Linguistics today, , 0166-0829 ; ; v. 116

Disciplina

495.6/5

Soggetti

Japanese language - Syntax

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [222]-232) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Locality and Information Structure -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC data -- TABLE OF CONTENTS -- Preface -- LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Evolution of Relativized Minimality -- 3. Topic and Quantifier-Induced Blocking Effects -- 4. Are Topics Special? -- 5. Focus and Case -- 6. Focus and Nominative Adverbials -- 7. Ditransitives -- 8. On the Nature of the Subject Position -- 9. Informant Surveys -- 10. Concluding Remarks -- REFERENCES -- Subject Index -- The series Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today.

Sommario/riassunto

This monograph presents a systematic exploration of Japanese syntax within the cartographic approach, paying special attention to the locality effects induced by discourse-based features such as topic and focus. Although the main focus is on Japanese syntax, implications of the analyses developed are investigated from a broader comparative perspective. Unlike previous works on Japanese generative syntax, this book is based partially on informant surveys, including the distribution of adverbials and the categorical status of nominative-Case-marked adverbials, as well as an exhaustive survey of ditransitive predicates in terms of word formation and idioms in Koujien, one of the most comprehensive Japanese dictionaries. A systematic syntactic study of the nature of clause-final particles in Japanese, an area previously only explored in the framework of discourse analysis, is also presented. It is



shown that the EPP may be satisfied by such discourse-related elements as topic and focus and by these sentence final particles.