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

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910964257803321
• Autore: Endo Yoshio <1960->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, : John Benjamins Pub., c2007
• ISBN: 9786612152603; 9781282152601; 1282152602; 9789027291950; 9027291950
• 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.

Beyond the Postcolonial : World Englishes Literature / / by E. Dawson Varughese

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910965549503321
• Autore: Dawson Varughese Emma
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: London : , : Palgrave Macmillan UK : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2012
• ISBN: 9786613900968; 9781283588515; 128358851X; 9781137265234; 113726523X
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (252 p.)
• Disciplina: 427
• Soggetti: Literature; African literature; Oriental literature; Linguistics; English language; Literature, Modern-20th century; Postcolonial/World Literature; African Literature; Asian Literature; Historical Linguistics; English; Twentieth-Century Literature
• 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: Methodology and overview of findings: stories as data? -- Cameroon: (Fr)Anglophone? -- Nigeria: Generation Y -- Uganda: the power of the pen -- Kenya: rifts apart -- Malaysia: Bahasa Manglish(es) -- Singapore: mad about Singlish -- India: emerging economy, emerging literature.
• Sommario/riassunto: With the backdrop of new global powers, this volume interrogates the state of writing in English. Strongly interdisciplinary, it challenges the prevailing orthodoxy of postcolonial literary theory. An insistence on fieldwork and linguistics makes this book scene-changing in its approach to understanding and reading emerging literature in English.