Japanese / Shoichi Iwasaki.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Iwasaki, Shōichi.

Series:

London Oriental and African language library ; 5.

London Oriental and African language library, 1382-3485 ; v. 5

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Japanese language--Grammar.

Japanese language.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xviii, 360 pages) : map

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam : Philadelphia : J. Benjamins Pub. Co., 2002.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Japanese ranks as the sixth language of the world with more than 125 million speakers in the island state of Japan. Its genetic relation has been a topic of heated discussion, but Altaic and Austronesian languages appear to have contributed to the early formation of this language. It has a long written tradition, which goes back to texts from the eighth century AD. The modern writing system employs a mixture of Chinese characters and two sets of syllabary developed from the Chinese characters.

Contents:

JAPANESE

Editorial page

Title page

Copyright page

Table of contents

PREFACE

ROMANIZATION AND TEXT PRESENTATION

LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS

Chapter 1. OVERVIEW

1. Geographical and historical background of the language

2. Preliminary remarks on the grammar of the language

Chapter 2. WRITING SYSTEM

Chapter 3. SOUNDS

1. The inventory of sounds

1.1. Vowels

1.2. Glides (semi-vowels

1.3. Consonants

2. Phonological rules

2.1. High vowel devoicing

2.2. Nasal assimilation

2.3. Sequential voicing (rendaku)

3. Mora and syllable

4. Accent

Chapter 4. WORDS

1. Vocabulary strata

2. Word classes

2.1. Major word classes

2.1.1. Nouns

2.1.2. Adjectives

2.1.3. Nominal adjectives

2.1.4. Verbs

2.2. Minor word classes

2.2.1. Adverbs

2.2.2. Conjunctives

2.2.3. Adnouns

2.2.4. Auxiliaries

2.2.5. Copula

2.2.6. Particles

2.2.7. Affixes

2.2.8. Interjection

3. Some notable word classes

3.1. Sound-symbolic words

3.2. Numerals and numeral-classifiers

3.2.1. Numerals

3.2.2. Numeral classifiers and numeric phrases

Chapter 5. MORPHOLOGY

1. Morphology of the inflectional category

1.1. Verb morphology

1.1.1. Derivational suffixes

1.1.2. Inflectional suffixes

1.1.3. "Onbin" (Sandhi)

1.1.4. Transitive-intransitive opposition

1.2. Adjective morphology

1.3. Copula morphology

1.4. Polite register inflection paradigms

2. Word-formation processes

2.1 Noun equivalents

2.2. Affixation

2.3. Compounding

2.4. Reduplication

2.5. Clipping

Chapter 6. ARGUMENT STRUCTURES

1. Argument structure types

1.1. Argument structures with stative predicates

1.2. Argument structures with eventive predicates

1.3. Argument structure for the reportative verbs

2. Adjunct noun phrases

3. Syntactic roles.

4. Noncanonical argument structures

Chapter 7. TENSE AND ASPECT

1. Tense

2. Aspect

2.1.The perfect: -ta

2.2. The progressive and resultative aspects:-te-iru and -te-aru

2.3. The completive aspect: -te-shimau

2.4. The inchoative aspect: (a) (ni/-ku) naru

(b) -te-kuru and -te-iku

Chapter 8. GRAMMATICAL CONSTRUCTIONS

1. Passive construction

1.1. Eventive passives

1.1.1. Direct passives : -(r)are- as a "voice converter

1.1.2. Indirect passives: -(r)are- as a "valence increaser

1.2. Stative Passives: -(r)are- as a "stativizer

2. Spontaneous construction

3. Potential construction

4. Causative construction

4.1. Lexical causatives

4.2. Morphological causatives

4.2.1. Intransitive-based morphological causatives

4.2.2. Transitive-based morphological causatives

4.3. Periphrastic causatives

4.4. Causative-passives

5. Benefactive construction

5.1. Basic structure

5.2. "Malefactive" interpretation

5.3. Causative-benefactives and passive-benefactives

6. Reciprocal construction

6.1. Lexical reciprocals

6.2. Morphological reciprocals

6.3. Periphrastic reciprocals

7. Numeric phrases

Chapter 9. NOUN PHRASE STRUCTURES

1. Genitive and associative phrases

2. Simple attributive phrases

3. Clausal noun modification

3.1. "Cased head'' type (Relative clause)

3.2. "Adverbial head " type

3.3. "Relational head" type

3.4. "Content label head" type ("Appositive clause ")

4. Some syntactic characteristics

Chapter 10. EMBEDDING

1. Quotation: Quoted speech and thought

2. Complementation

2.1. The object complement

2.2. The subject complement

3. Internally headed relative clauses (IHRs)

4. Integrated adverbial clauses

5. Summary

Chapter 11. INFORMATION STRUCTURE AND THE SENTENCE FORM

1. The declarative sentence.

1.1. The topic-comment sentence

1.1.1 Specific and generic sentences

1.1.2. The "eel" sentence

1.1.3. The "-wa -ga" sentence structure

1.2. The topic-less sentence

1.2.1. The exclamatory sentence

1.2.2. The presentational sentence

1.3. The mixed-type sentence

1.4. Summary

2. Information structure

2.1. Topicalization

2.2. The focus structure

2.3. The cleft argument focus construction

2.4. The contrastive structure

Chapter 12. DISCOURSE AND GRAMMAR

1. Clause combining

1.1. Conjoining

1.1.1. Coupling

1.1.2. Contrast

1.2. Adverbial subordination

1.2.1. Temporal clauses

1.2.2 Conditionals

1.2.3. Cause/reason

1.2.4. Concessive

1.2.5. Purpose

1.2.6. Circumstantials

1.3. Clause chaining and continuity marking

1.4. The "open " clausal structure and discourse organization

2. Referent tracking (Anaphora)

2.1 Personal pronouns, reflexive pronouns, and logophoric pronouns

2.2. Zero anaphora

2.3. Demonstratives as discourse deixis

2.3.1. Nominal reference

2.3.2. Discourse reference

Chapter 13. PRAGMATICS AND GRAMMAR

1. Modality

1.1. Speech-act related modality

1.2. Agent-oriented modality

1.3. Epistemic modality

1.3.1. Judgments

1.3.2. Evidentials

2. Information status and the interaction process

2.1 Markers of information status

2.2. Markers of the communication process

3. Subjectivity effects

3.1. Expressions of evaluation

3.2. Expressions of internal states

3.3 Deictic expressions

3.3.1. Demonstratives

3.3.2. Movements and giving

4. Speech levels and honorifics

4.1 Speech levels

4.2. Honorifics

4.2.1. Addressee honorifics

4.2.2. Referent honorifics

5. Male/female speech

6. Speech register

Chapter 14. SAMPLE TEXTS

1. Newspaper article

2. Folk tale

3. First person narrative ("Air Raid").

4. Conversation (1): "The Northridge earthquake

5. Conversation (2): "Australia

NOTES

REFERENCES

INDEX

The series London Oriental and African Language Library.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-283-09248-4

9786613092489

90-272-8543-8

OCLC:

713026457