Overview

Over the past twenty years or so, the work on Japanese within generative grammar has shifted from primarily using contemporary theory to describe Japanese to contributing directly to general theory, on top of producing extensive analyses of the language. The Oxford Handbook of Japanese Linguistics captures the excitement that comes from answering the question, ""What can Japanese say about Universal Grammar?"" Each of the eighteen chapters takes up a topic in syntax, morphology, acquisition, processing, phonology, or information structure, and, first of all, lays out the core data, followed by critical discussion of the various approaches found in the literature. Each chapter ends with a section on how the study of the particular phenomenon in Japanese contributes to our knowledge of general linguistic theory. This book will be useful to students and scholars of linguistics who are interested in the latest studies on one of the most extensively studied languages within generative grammar.

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Author:   Shigeru Miyagawa (Professor of Linguistics, Professor of Linguistics, MIT) ,  Mamoru Saito (Linguistics Department, Linguistics Department, Nanzan University, Japan)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press Inc
Imprint:   Oxford University Press Inc
Dimensions:   Width: 24.90cm , Height: 4.30cm , Length: 17.30cm
Weight:   1.148kg
ISBN:  

9780195307344

ISBN 10:   0195307348
Pages:   576
Publication Date:   06 November 2008
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   To order  
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Table of Contents

Shigeru Miyagawa and Mamoru Saito: Introduction 2.: Heidi Harley: On the Causative Construction 3.: Caroline Heycock: Japanese -Wa, -Ga, and Information Structure 4.: Junko Ito and Armin Mester: Lexical Classes in Phonology 5.: Hideki Kishimoto: On Verb Raising 6.: Masatoshi Koizumi: Nominative Object 7.: Haruo Kubozono: Japanese Accent 8.: Hideki Maki and Asko Uchibori: Ga/No Conversion 9.: Edson T. Miyamoto: Processing Sentences in Japanese 10.: Keiko Murasugi and Koji Sugisaki: The Acquisition of Japanese Syntax 11.: Kimiko Nakanishi: The Syntax of Semantics of Floating Numeral Quantifiers 12.: Kunio Nishiyama: V-V Compounds 13.: Norvin Richards: Wh-Questions 14.: Junko Shimoyama: Indeterminate Pronouns 15.: Daiko Takahashi: Noun Phrase Ellipsis 16.: Yuji Takano: Ditransitive Constructions 17.: Jennifer J. Venditti, Kikuo Maekawa, and Mary E. Beckman: Prominence Marking in the Japanese Syntax Intonation System 18.: Akira Watanabe: The Structure of DP Author Index Subject Index

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Shigeru Miyagawa is Professor of Linguistics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Mamoru Saito is Professor of Linguistics, Nanzan University, Nagoya Japan

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