Locality and information structure : a cartographic approach to Japanese
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Locality and information structure : a cartographic approach to Japanese
（Linguistik aktuell, v. 116）
J. Benjamins, c2007
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [222]-232) and index
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Description
This monograph presents a systematic exploration of Japanese syntax within the cartographic approach, paying special attention to the locality effects induced by discourse-based features such as topic and focus. Although the main focus is on Japanese syntax, implications of the analyses developed are investigated from a broader comparative perspective. Unlike previous works on Japanese generative syntax, this book is based partially on informant surveys, including the distribution of adverbials and the categorical status of nominative-Case-marked adverbials, as well as an exhaustive survey of ditransitive predicates in terms of word formation and idioms in Koujien, one of the most comprehensive Japanese dictionaries. A systematic syntactic study of the nature of clause-final particles in Japanese, an area previously only explored in the framework of discourse analysis, is also presented. It is shown that the EPP may be satisfied by such discourse-related elements as topic and focus and by these sentence final particles.
Table of Contents
- 1. Preface
- 2. List of abbreviations
- 3. Chapter 1: Introduction
- 4. Chapter 2: Evolution of relativized minimality
- 5. Chapter 3: Topic and quantifier-induced blocking effects
- 6. Chapter 4: Are topics special?
- 7. Chapter 5: Focus and case
- 8. Chapter 6: Focus and nominative adverbials
- 9. Chapter 7: Ditransitives
- 10. Chapter 8: On the nature of the subject position
- 11. Chapter 9: Informant surveys
- 12. Chapter 10: Concluding remarks
- 13. References
- 14. Subject index
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