Transitivity and valency alternations : studies on Japanese and beyond / / edited by Taro Kageyama and Wesley M. Jacobsen

• Pubblicazione: Berlin, [Germany] ; ; Boston, [Massachusetts] : , : De Gruyter Mouton, , 2016; ©2016
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (506 pages)
• Disciplina: 495.6
• Soggetto topico: Japanese language
• Soggetto non controllato: Japanese; Language Typology; Valency
• Persona (resp. second.): KageyamaTaro; JacobsenWesley M.
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Frontmatter -- Table of contents -- Introduction -- 1 The semantic basis of Japanese transitiveintransitive derivational patterns -- 2. Phonological and semantic subregularities in noncausative-causative verb pairs in Japanese -- 3. Agents in anticausative and decausative compound verbs -- 4. Valency and case alternations in Japanese -- 5. The role of lexical semantics in the reorganization of the resultative construction -- 6. Anticausativization in the northern dialects of Japanese -- 7. Aspect and non-canonical object marking in the Irabu dialect of Ryukyuan -- 8. Japanese transitivity pairs through time – a historical and typological perspective -- 9. The historical source of the bigrade transitivity alternations in Japanese -- 10. Children’s ‘erroneous’ intransitives, transitives, and causatives: their implications for syntactic theory -- 11. Children’s use of morphosyntax and argument structure to infer the meaning of novel transitive and intransitive verbs -- 12. The effect of a ‘conceptualizable’ agent on the use of transitive and intransitive constructions in L2 Japanese -- 13. “Ambivalent voice”: markedness effects in valency change -- 14. Quantitative tests of implicational verb hierarchies -- 15. The role of morphology in valency alternation phenomena -- Appendix A: List of core transitivity pairs in Japanese (by Yo Matsumoto, a revision of Jacobsen (1992)) -- Appendix B: List of additional transitivity pairs in Japanese (by Yo Matsumoto, a revision of Jacobsen (1992)) -- Subject index
• Sommario/riassunto: This collection of papers is the first book ever published in English that presents detailed analyses of valency and transitivity alternations in Japanese from multifaceted standpoints: morphology, semantics, syntax, dialects, history, acquisition, and language typology.
• Titolo autorizzato: Transitivity and valency alternations
• ISBN: 3-11-061069-8; 3-11-047530-8; 3-11-047715-7
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910796572103321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Trends in linguistics.Studies and monographs ; ; Volume 297.