Japanese syntax and semantics : collected papers
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Japanese syntax and semantics : collected papers
（Studies in natural language and linguistic theory, v. 27）
Kluwer Academic Publishers, c1992
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National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics
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Originally presented as the author's thesis (doctoral)--MIT, 1965
Includes bibliographical references (p. 358-366) and indexes
Description and Table of Contents
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: hb ISBN 9780792313908
Description
1. Two main themes connect the papers on Japanese syntax collected in this volume: movements of noun phrases and case marking, although each in turn relates to other issues in syntax and semantics. These two themes can be traced back to my 1965 MIT dissertation. The problem of the so-called topic marker wa is a perennial problem in Japanese linguistics. I devoted Chapter 2 of my dissertation to the problem of wa. My primary concern there was transformational genera tive syntax. I was interested in the light that Chomsky'S new theory could shed on the understanding of Japanese sentence structure. I generalized the problem of deriving wa-phrases to the problem of deriving phrases accompanied by the quantifier-like particles mo, demo, sae as well as wa. These particles, mo, demo and sae may roughly be equated with a/so, or something like it and even, respectively, and are grouped together with wa under the name of huku-zyosi as a subcategory of particles in Kokugogaku, Japanese scholarship on Japanese grammar. This taxonomy itself is a straightforward consequence of distributional analysis, and does not require the mechanisms of transformational grammar. My transformational analysis of wa, and by extension, that of the other huku zyosi, consisted in formally relating the function of the post-nominal use of wa to that of the post-predicative use by means of what I called an attachment transformation.
Table of Contents
Introduction. 1. Judgment Forms and Sentence Forms. 2. Remarks on the Notion of Subject, etc. 3. Pivot-Independent Relative Clauses. 4. A Remark on Certain Constructions with the Word naka. 5. On Passives. 6. Case-Marking, Counter-Equi, and Canonical Sentence Patterns. 7. What can Japanese say about Government and Binding. 8. Movement of Noun Phrases. 9. After Movement in La Jolla. 10. Whether we Agree or Not. Index.
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: pbk ISBN 9780792313915
Description
This volume is a collection of articles the author has written over the last 20 years on a wide-ranging number of issues in Japanese syntax and semantics. Many of the papers challenged prevailing opinions, and some in fact were instrumental in changing perspectives within the broader linguistic community. Some of the papers address particular structures in Japanese, such as passives, relative clauses, and double-subject constructions. All the papers, however, go beyond the description to place those constructions in an interesting theoretical context.The volume will be of interest both to students of Japanese linguistics and to specialists in general syntactic theory and semantics.
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