Topics in theoretical Asian linguistics : studies in honor of John B. Whitman / / edited by Kunio Nishiyama, Hideki Kishimoto, Edith Aldridge

• Pubblicazione: Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia : , : John Benjamins Publishing Company, , [2018]; ©2018
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (412 pages)
• Disciplina: 495
• Soggetto geografico: Asia Languages
• Persona (resp. second.): NishiyamaKunio; KishimotoHideki; AldridgeEdith
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: On complement selection in Spanish and Japanese / Tomoyuki Yoshida -- The syntactic status of by-phrases in Korean and Japanese / Sang Doh Park -- Displaced modification: picture noun constructions in Marathi and Japanese / Hideki Kishimoto, Peter Hook and Prashant Pardeshi -- Some asymmetries of long distance scope assignment in Sinhala / Hideki Kishimoto -- Autosegmental evaluative morphology in Japanese: augmentative and diminutive mimetics / Takashi Toyoshima -- On the distribution of the discourse particles -yo in Korean and -ne in Japanese / Changguk Yim and Yoshihito Dobashi -- Wh-indefinites in East Asian languages / Jiwon Yun -- Resultative and termination: a unified analysis of Middle Chinese VP-Yi / Edith Aldridge and Barbara Meisterernst -- Differential argument marking and object movement in old Japanese: a typological perspective / Yuko Yanagida -- Possessive nominal phrases in Lamaholot / Kunio Nishiyama -- Experimental study of the children's comprehension of lexical and productive causatives in Japanese / Kyoko Yamakoshi, Kaori Miura, Hanako Jorinbo, Kayoko Angata and Kaori Yamasaki -- Parsing Chinese relative clauses with structural and non-structural cues / Zhong Chen and John Hale -- The inexorable spread of in romanized Japanese / Timothy J. Vance -- Loanword accent of Kyungsang Korean: a moraic account / Haruo Kubozono -- The role of perceived similarity and contrast: English loanwords into Korean and Japanese / Hyun Kyung Hwang -- The status of schwa in Indonesian: evidence from a naturalistic corpus / Abigail C. Cohn and Ferdinan Okki Kurniawan -- Quantitative and qualitative restrictions on the distribution of lexical tones in Thai: a diachronic study / Pittayawat Pittayaporn.
• Sommario/riassunto: "Dedicated to John B. Whitman, this collection of seventeen articles provides a forum for cutting-edge theoretical research on a wide range of linguistic phenomena in a wide variety of Asian languages, including Japanese, Korean, Chinese, Austronesian, Indo-Aryan, and Thai. Ranging from syntax and morphology to semantics, acquisition, processing and phonology, from synchronic and/or diachronic perspectives, this collection reflects the breadth of the honoree's research interests, which span multiple research subfields in numerous Asian languages"--
• Titolo autorizzato: Topics in theoretical Asian linguistics
• ISBN: 90-272-6329-9
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910793350803321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Linguistik aktuell ; ; Volume 250. . 0166-0829