Handbook of Japanese lexicon and word formation / / edited by Taro Kageyama, Hideki Kishimoto

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910821617903321
• Autore: Kageyama Tarō <1949->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Boston : , : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2016]; ©2016
• ISBN: 1-5015-0081-3; 1-61451-209-4
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (748 p.)
• Collana: Handbook of Japanese Language and Linguistics ; ; 3
• Disciplina: 495.65/92
• Soggetti: Japanese language - Word formation; Japanese language - Lexicology
• 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: Front matter -- Preface -- Introduction to the Handbooks of Japanese Language and Linguistics -- Table of contents -- Contributors -- Introduction -- 1. Vocabulary strata and word formation processes -- 2. Lexical categories -- 3. Sino-Japanese words -- 4. Mimetics -- 5. The morphology of English loanwords -- 6. Word structure and headedness -- 7. Noun-compounding and noun-incorporation -- 8. Verb-compounding and verb-incorporation -- 9. Conversion and deverbal compound nouns -- 10. Derivational affixation in the lexicon and syntax -- 11. Complex predicates with -te gerundive verbs -- 12. Light verb constructions with verbal nouns -- 13. Inflection -- 14. Lexical integrity and the morphology syntax interface -- 15. Lexical meaning and temporal aspect -- 16. Stative and existential/possessive predicates -- 17. Agent nominals -- 18. Complement-taking nouns -- 19. Idioms -- Subject index
• Sommario/riassunto: This volume presents a comprehensive survey of the lexicon and word formation processes in contemporary Japanese, with particular emphasis on their typologically characteristic features and their interactions with syntax and semantics. Through contacts with a variety of languages over more than two thousand years of history, Japanese has developed a complex vocabulary system that is composed of four ; lexical strata: (i) native Japanese, (ii) mimetic, (iii) Sino-Japanese, and (iv) foreign (especially English). This hybrid composition of the lexicon, coupled with the agglutinative character of the language by which morphology is closely associated with syntax, gives rise to theoretically intriguing interactions with word formation processes that are not easily found with inflectional, isolate, or polysynthetic types of languages.