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Perspectives on topicalization : the case of Japanese Wa / editors, John Hinds, Senko K. Maynard, Shoichi Iwasaki.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Typological studies in language ; 14.
- Typological studies in language, 0167-7373 ; v. 14
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Wa (The Japanese word).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (319 pages) : illustrations
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : J. Benjamins Pub. Co., 1987.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Within the field of Japanese linguistics, few areas have generated as much controversy as the morpheme wa; traditionally described as a marker of old or contrasted information, its function as a discourse marker has also been studied. This work aims to deepen the understanding of wa through careful examination of the particle at both sentence and discourse levels in old Japanese as well as present-day Japanese. Previous studies have concentrated on syntactic analyses of wa. The contributors to this volume challenge the old approach and uncover new properties of wa.
- Contents:
- pt. 1. Wa in narrative and expository discourse
- pt. 2. Wa and other syntactic phenomena
- pt. 3. Historical perspectives on Wa
- pt. 4. Pragmatic perspectives on Wa.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 1-283-31382-0
- 9786613313829
- 90-272-7881-4
- OCLC:
- 297666732
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