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Author Kikuta, Chiharu Uda

Title Complex Predicates in Japanese
Published Milton : Routledge, 2019

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Description 1 online resource (375 pages)
Series Routledge Library Editions: Japanese Linguistics Ser. ; v. 4
Routledge Library Editions: Japanese Linguistics Ser
Contents Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Original Title Page; Original Copyright Page; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; List of Abbreviations and Symbols; Chapter 1: Introduction; Chapter 2: Theoretical Framework; 2.1 Overview of Head-driven Phrase Structure Grammar; 2.1.1 Linguistic Expression as Sign; 2.1.2 Immediate Dominance Schemata; 2.1.3 Lexical Rules; 2.1.4 Control Structures; 2.2 Semantic Roles and Thematic Role Types; 2.2.1 Significance of Thematic Roles to Syntactic Issues; 2.2.2 Problems with the Discrete Thematic Role Approachand the Relative Position Approach
2.2.3 Proto-Role Approach2.3 Basic Sentence Structures and Configurationality of Japanese; 2.4 Case Marking in Japanese; 2.4.1 Case Marking Schemata in Japanese; 2.5 Reflexive Binding in Japanese; 2.5.1 Obliqueness Binding; 2.5.2 Zibun Binding in Japanese; 2.5.3 Obliqueness Binding for Japanese Reflexives; 2.5.4 Thematic Binding for Japanese Reflexives; Chapter 3: Passive Constructions; 3.1 Introduction; 3.2 Three Types of Passive in Japanese; 3.2.1 Direct Passives and Indirect Passives; 3.2.2 Possessive Passives; 3.3 Previous Analyses of Passives in Japanese
3.3.1 Transformational Approaches3.3.2 Lexicalist Approaches; 3.3.3 Movement Approaches: Without Verb Incorporation; 3.3.4 Movement Approaches: With Verb Incorporation; 3.3.5 Phrase Structure Approaches; 3.3.6 Summary of Previous Studies; 3.4 Lexical Passives and Syntactic Passives; 3.4.1 Direct Passives as Lexical Passives; 3.4.2 Indirect Passives as Syntactic Passives; 3.4.3 Evidence for the Present Approach; 3.5 Possessive Passives as Lexical Passives; 3.5.1 Evidence Against NP Movement in PossessivePassives; 3.5.2 The Lexical Rule for Possessive Passives; 3.6 Double Passivization
3.7 On Case Distribution3.8 Conclusion; 3.8.1 Independence and Interdependence of Morphology and Syntax; 3.8.2 Suppression of an Argument; 3.8.3 Uniformity in Content; Chapter 4: Benefactive Constructions; 4.1 Introduction; 4.2 Syntactic Parallels between Passives and Benefactives; 4.2.1 Three Types of Te-Moraw Benefactives; 4.2.2 Do-Support Phenomena; 4.3 Previous Analyses of Te-Moraw Benefactives; 4.4 Analysis of Te-Moraw Benefactives Paralleling Passives; 4.5 Evidence against the Parallelism; 4.5.1 Morpheme Order in Subject Honorification; 4.5.2 Semantic Properties of the Matrix Subject
4.5.3 Implications of the Semantic Underspecification4.6 Three Types of Japanese Benefactives; 4.7 Conclusion; Chapter 5: Causative Constructions; 5.1 Introduction; 5.2 Two Types of Causatives in Japanese; 5.2.1 Intransitive-Based Causatives; 5.2.2 Transitive-Based Causatives; 5.2.3 Wa-Causatives and Ni-Causatives; 5.3 Previous Analyses of Japanese Causatives; 5.3.1 Transformational Approaches; 5.3.2 Lexicalist Approaches; 5.3.3 Movement Approaches; 5.3.4 Argument Structure Merger Approaches; 5.3.5 Phrase Structure Approaches; 5.4 Lexical Causatives and Syntactic Causatives
Notes 5.4.1 Wa-Causatives as Lexical Causatives
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Subject Japanese language -- Verb phrase
Japanese language -- Passive voice
Japanese language -- Causative
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Linguistics -- General.
case marking.
complex predicate constructions Japanese.
Japanese language.
reflexive binding.
Japanese language -- Causative
Japanese language -- Passive voice
Japanese language -- Verb phrase
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780429401312
9780429685453
0429685459
9780429685446
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9780429685439
0429685432
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