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

• Autore: Endo Yoshio <1960->
• Pubblicazione: Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, : John Benjamins Pub., c2007
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (248 p.)
• Disciplina: 495.6/5
• Soggetto topico: Japanese language - Syntax
• 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Locality and information structure
• ISBN: 1-282-15260-2; 9786612152603; 90-272-9195-0
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910810191703321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Linguistik aktuell ; ; Bd. 116.