Transitivity and valency alternations : studies on Japanese and beyond / edited by Taro Kageyama and Wesley M. Jacobsen.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Kageyama, Tarō, 1949- editor.

Jacobsen, Wesley M., editor.

Series:

Trends in linguistics.Studies and monographs ; Volume 297.

Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs, 1861-4302 ; Volume 297

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Japanese language.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (506 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berlin, [Germany] ; Boston, [Massachusetts] : De Gruyter Mouton, 2016.

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

This collection of papers is the first book ever published in English that presents detailed analyses of valency and transitivity alternations in Japanese from multifaceted standpoints: morphology, semantics, syntax, dialects, history, acquisition, and language typology.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Table of contents

Introduction

1 The semantic basis of Japanese transitiveintransitive derivational patterns

2. Phonological and semantic subregularities in noncausative-causative verb pairs in Japanese

3. Agents in anticausative and decausative compound verbs

4. Valency and case alternations in Japanese

5. The role of lexical semantics in the reorganization of the resultative construction

6. Anticausativization in the northern dialects of Japanese

7. Aspect and non-canonical object marking in the Irabu dialect of Ryukyuan

8. Japanese transitivity pairs through time – a historical and typological perspective

9. The historical source of the bigrade transitivity alternations in Japanese

10. Children’s ‘erroneous’ intransitives, transitives, and causatives: their implications for syntactic theory

11. Children’s use of morphosyntax and argument structure to infer the meaning of novel transitive and intransitive verbs

12. The effect of a ‘conceptualizable’ agent on the use of transitive and intransitive constructions in L2 Japanese

13. “Ambivalent voice”: markedness effects in valency change

14. Quantitative tests of implicational verb hierarchies

15. The role of morphology in valency alternation phenomena

Appendix A: List of core transitivity pairs in Japanese (by Yo Matsumoto, a revision of Jacobsen (1992))

Appendix B: List of additional transitivity pairs in Japanese (by Yo Matsumoto, a revision of Jacobsen (1992))

Subject index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed August 26, 2016).

ISBN:

9783110610697

3110610698

9783110475302

3110475308

9783110477153

3110477157

OCLC:

954671578