Locality and Information Structure: A cartographic approach to Japanese: 116 (Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today) - Hardcover

Endo, Yoshio

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 9027233802 ISBN 13: 9789027233806

Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Co, 2007

Synopsis

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.

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ENDO, Y. LOCALITY AND INFORMATION STRUCTURE. A CARTOGRAPHIC APPROACH TO JAPANESE[HARDBACK]. AMSTERDAM, 2007, x 235 p.,. Encuadernacion original. Nuevo.

Synopsis

Charting new paths in the cartographic approach to studying Japanese syntax, Endo pays special attention to the locality effects induced by discourse-based features such as topic and focus. He also looks at the nature of clause-final particles, which has previously only been explored in the framework of discourse analysis. His research into Japanes

Edition details

• Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Co
• Publication date: 2007
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9027233802
• ISBN 13: 9789027233806
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 248