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

Publication Info. Berlin : De Gruyter Mouton, 2016.

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Description 1 online resource.
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Series Trends in linguistics studies and monographs ; volume 297
Trends in linguistics. Studies and monographs ; volume 297.
Note Includes index.
Contents Table of contents ; Introduction ; I. Standard Japanese ; 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 ; II. Dialects and Ryukyuan ; 6. Anticausativization in the northern dialects of Japanese.
7. Aspect and non-canonical object marking in the Irabu dialect of Ryukyuan III. History ; 8. Japanese transitivity pairs through time -- a historical and typological perspective ; 9. The historical source of the bigrade transitivity alternations in Japanese ; IV. Acquisition.
12. The effect of a 'conceptualizable' agent on the use of transitive and intransitive constructions in L2 Japanese V. Beyond Japanese ; 13. "Ambivalent voice": markedness effects in valency change ; 14. Quantitative tests of implicational verb hierarchies.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Local Note eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America
Language In English.
Subject Japanese language -- Transitivity.
Japanese language.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author Kageyama, Tarō, 1949- editor.
Jacobsen, Wesley M., editor.
Other Form: Print version: Transitivity and valency alternations. Berlin : De Gruyter Mouton, 2016 3110475243 9783110475241 (OCoLC)940520725
ISBN 9783110475302 (electronic book)
3110475308 (electronic book)
9783110477153 (electronic book)
3110477157 (electronic book)
9783110610697
3110610698
9783110475241
3110475243
9783110475153 (PDF)
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