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Title Transitivity and valency alternations : studies on Japanese and beyond / edited by Taro Kageyama and Wesley M. Jacobsen
Published Berlin : De Gruyter Mouton, 2016

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Series Trends in linguistics studies and monographs ; volume 297
Trends in linguistics. Studies and monographs ; volume 297.
Contents Table of contents ; Introduction ; I. Standard Japanese ; 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 ; II. Dialects and Ryukyuan ; 6. Anticausativization in the northern dialects of Japanese
7. Aspect and non-canonical object marking in the Irabu dialect of Ryukyuan III. History ; 8. Japanese transitivity pairs through time -- a historical and typological perspective ; 9. The historical source of the bigrade transitivity alternations in Japanese ; IV. Acquisition
12. The effect of a 'conceptualizable' agent on the use of transitive and intransitive constructions in L2 Japanese V. Beyond Japanese ; 13. "Ambivalent voice": markedness effects in valency change ; 14. Quantitative tests of implicational verb hierarchies
Summary 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
Analysis Japanese
Language Typology
Valency
Notes Includes index
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes In English
Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed September 30, 2016)
In OAPEN (Open Access Publishing in European Networks). OAPEN
Subject Japanese language -- Transitivity
Linguistics.
FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY -- Miscellaneous.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Linguistics -- Semantics.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Reference.
FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY -- Southeast Asian Languages.
Japanese language
Form Electronic book
Author Kageyama, Tarō, 1949- editor.
Jacobsen, Wesley M., editor.
LC no. 2016030250
ISBN 9783110475302
3110475308
9783110477153
3110477157
9783110610697
3110610698