Locality and information structure : a cartographic approach to Japanese / Yoshio Endo.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Endō, Yoshio, 1960-

Series:

Linguistik aktuell ; Bd. 116.

Linguistik aktuell = Linguistics today, 0166-0829 ; v. 116

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Japanese language--Syntax.

Japanese language.

Physical Description:

ix, 235 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub., [2007]

Summary:

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [222]-232) and index.

ISBN:

9027233802

9789027233806

OCLC:

171049858