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Record Nr.

UNINA9910975336903321

Titolo

Perspectives on topicalization : the case of Japanese Wa / / editors, John Hinds, Senko K. Maynard, Shoichi Iwasaki

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, : J. Benjamins Pub. Co., 1987

ISBN

1-283-31382-0

9786613313829

90-272-7881-4

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (319 pages) : illustrations

Collana

Typological studies in language, , 0167-7373 ; ; v. 14

Altri autori (Persone)

HindsJohn

MaynardSenko K

IwasakiShōichi

Disciplina

495.6/2

Soggetti

Wa (The Japanese word)

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.

Nota di contenuto

pt. 1. Wa in narrative and expository discourse -- pt. 2. Wa and other syntactic phenomena -- pt. 3. Historical perspectives on Wa -- pt. 4. Pragmatic perspectives on Wa.

Sommario/riassunto

Within the field of Japanese linguistics, few areas have generated as much controversy as the morpheme wa; traditionally described as a marker of old or contrasted information, its function as a discourse marker has also been studied. This work aims to deepen the understanding of wa through careful examination of the particle at both sentence and discourse levels in old Japanese as well as present-day Japanese. Previous studies have concentrated on syntactic analyses of wa. The contributors to this volume challenge the old approach and uncover new properties of wa.