Grammar in use across time and space : deconstructing the Japanese 'dative subject' construction
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Grammar in use across time and space : deconstructing the Japanese 'dative subject' construction
(Studies in discourse and grammar / editors, Sandra A. Thompson, Paul J. Hopper, v. 20)
John Benjamins, c2007
Available at 24 libraries
  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
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Note
Bibliography: p. [189]-203
Includes indexes
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This monograph contains the first systematic investigation of the Japanese 'dative subject' construction across time and space. It demonstrates that, in order to capture what speakers/writers know about how to put an utterance or a clause together, it is necessary to pay attention to what they do in actual language use and in different discourse types. The work also shows the importance of diachronic perspectives to help us better understand the ways in which a particular grammatical structure is represented synchronically. By utilizing modern Japanese conversation, contemporary Japanese novels, and a pre-modern and modern Japanese literature corpus, the study highlights the role of 'dative subjects' at the semantic and discourse-pragmatic levels. Specifically, it demonstrates that what has been considered to be a most 'grammatical' aspect of Japanese actually turns out to be rather pragmatically oriented.
Table of Contents
- 1. List of tables
- 2. List of figures
- 3. Acknowledgments
- 4. Chapter 1. Introduction
- 5. 1.1. Overview
- 6. 1.2. Previous approaches
- 7. 1.3. Theoretical approach
- 8. 1.4. Goals
- 9. 1.5. Organization
- 10. Chapter 2. Data and methodology
- 11. 2.1. Introduction
- 12. 2.2. Spoken versus written
- 13. 2.3. Modern Japanese discourse data
- 14. 2.4. Criteria for selecting the dative subject construction in discourse
- 15. 2.5. Examples of coding clauses
- 16. 2.6 Summary
- 17. Chapter 3. The dative subject construction in naturally occurring conversation
- 18. 3.1. Introduction
- 19. 3.2. Overall distribution
- 20. 3.3. Clauses with or without overt core argument NPs
- 21. 3.4. Clauses with no overt core argument NPs
- 22. 3.5. Clauses with one overt core argument NP
- 23. 3.6. Marking of NPs
- 24. 3.7. The characteristics of "dative subjects" in naturally occurring conversation
- 25. 3.8 Summary
- 26. Chapter 4. The dative subject construction in contemporary Japanese novels
- 27. 4.1. Introduction
- 28. 4.2. Overall distribution
- 29. 4.3. Clauses with or without overt core argument NPs
- 30. 4.4. Clauses with one overt core argument NP
- 31. 4.5. Clauses with no overt core argument NPs
- 32. 4.6. Marking of NPs
- 33. 4.7. The characteristics of "dative subjects" in contemporary Japanese novels
- 34. 4.8 Summary
- 35. Chapter 5. "Dative subjects" across time: An examination of pre-modern and modern Japanese texts
- 36. 5.1. Introduction
- 37. 5.2. The history of the Japanese language: The divergence and convergence of spoken and written Japanese
- 38. 5.3. Data
- 39. 5.4. Ni-marked NP1s in pre-modern and modern Japanese texts
- 40. 5.5 Summary
- 41. Chapter 6. Conclusion
- 42. 6.1. Introduction
- 43. 6.2. Summary
- 44. 6.3. The semantic and pragmatic enrichment of ni-marked NP1s
- 45. 6.4. Implications
- 46. 6.5. Suggestions for further studies
- 47. Appendix A: List of abbreviations
- 48. Appendix B: Transcription symbols
- 49. References
- 50. Author index
- 51. Subject index
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