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:

1 online resource (248 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub., c2007.

Language Note:

English

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.

Contents:

Locality and Information Structure

Editorial page

Title page

LCC data

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Preface

LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS

1. Introduction

2. Evolution of Relativized Minimality

3. Topic and Quantifier-Induced Blocking Effects

4. Are Topics Special?

5. Focus and Case

6. Focus and Nominative Adverbials

7. Ditransitives

8. On the Nature of the Subject Position

9. Informant Surveys

10. Concluding Remarks

REFERENCES

Subject Index

The series Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

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

ISBN:

9786612152603

9781282152601

1282152602

9789027291950

9027291950

OCLC:

647673109