Usage-based approaches to Japanese grammar : towards the understanding of human language / / edited by Kaori Kabata, Tsuyoshi Ono

• Pubblicazione: Amsterdam, Netherlands ; ; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania : , : John Benjamins B.V, , 2014; ©2014
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (318 p.)
• Disciplina: 495.65
• Soggetto topico: Japanese language - Usage; Japanese language - Spoken Japanese; Japanese language - Writing
• Persona (resp. second.): KabataKaori; OnoTsuyoshi
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Usage-based Approaches to Japanese Grammar; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Table of contents; Acknowledgement; List of contributors; Situating usage-based (Japanese) linguistics; 1. Introduction; 2. Themes in usage-based linguistics; 2.1 Universals and cross-linguistic orientation; 2.2 External factors and interdisciplinary orientation; 2.3 Parting from intuition; 2.4 Non-discrete nature of linguistic categories; 2.5 No division between synchrony and diachrony; 3. Preview of the articles; References; Part 1.Cognition and language use; Subordination and information status ; 1. Introduction 2. Foreground vs. background information; 3. Degree of subordination; 4. Object complement clause in Japanese; 4.1 Overview; 4.2 To vs. Koto: Syntactic differences and degree of subordination; 4.3 To vs. Koto: Functional differences; 5. Conclusion; List of abbreviations; References; On state of mind and grammatical forms from functional perspectives; 1. Introduction; 2. Grammar and usage of garu and te-iru; 2.1 Garu; 2.2 Te-iru; 2.3 The commonality of garu and te-iru; 3. Theoretical justification; 4. Concluding remarks; Appendix; Samples; References ; Grammar of the internal expressive sentences in Japanese 1. Japanese scholarship on the internal expressive sentence; 2. The nature of the internal expressive sentence; 2.1 Expressive and descriptive sentences; 2.2 Three semantic primitives of an expressive sentence; 2.3 Interim summary; 3. Grammar of internal expressive sentences and the neurological processes; 3.1 Reflex expression; 3.2 One-term expressions; 3.3 Two-term expressions; 4. External descriptive sentences - revisited; 5. Summary; 6. Discussion and conclusion; References; Subjectivity, intersubjectivity and Japanese grammar ; 1. Introduction 2. Subjectivity vs. intersubjectivity; 2.1 Predicate order; 2.2 Mental vs. speech act verb dichotomy; 2.3 Unidirectionality in grammaticalization; 3. On the fundamentality of subjectivity and intersubjectivity; 4. Conclusion; Abbreviations; References; What typology reveals about modality in Japanese; 1. Introduction; 2. Revisiting the semantic and formal categories of modality in Japanese: A cross-linguistic assessment; 2.1 Modality and its formal coding in linguistic typology; 2.2 Modality and its formal coding in Japanese ; 3. Modality and its formal coding in Japanese, Korean, English, and German 3.1 Modal systems in Japanese, Korean, English, and German; 3.2 Mood in Japanese, Korean, German, and English; 3.3 Discourse systems in Japanese, Korean, English, and German; 4. Why does Japanese have the distribution of modality categories it has? A communicative-discursive perspective; 5. Conc lusion and implications for grammar; Abbreviations; References; Part 2.Frequency, interaction and language use; If rendaku isn't a rule, what in the world is it?; 1. Introduction; 2. Fundamental irregularity; 3. Lyman's Law ; 4. Direct object + verb stem
• Sommario/riassunto: It is often said that language standardization has been steadily advancing in modern Japan and that speakers in regional Japan are now bi-dialectal and code-switch between "Standard" and "regional" Japanese. The notion of code-switching, however, assumes the existence of varieties, or well-defined linguistic systems, that are distinct from each other. In this study, I examine the use of "Standard Japanese" and "regional dialects" and argue that it is much more complex and dynamic than what can be possibly accounted for in terms of the notion of code-switching involving two distinct varieties.
• Titolo autorizzato: Usage-based approaches to Japanese grammar
• ISBN: 90-272-7031-7
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910823856703321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Studies in Language Companion Series