Attribution and Clausal Nominalization in Japanese - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Attribution and Clausal Nominalization in Japanese write by Justin Boffemmyer. This book was released on 2013. Attribution and Clausal Nominalization in Japanese available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Japanese employs different strategies for expressing relative clauses and complement clauses. The relative clause constructions are generally described as Externally Headed Relative Clauses (EHRCs), which are the closest analogue to English relative clauses, and Headless Relative Clauses (HRCs) (also called Internally Headed Relative Clauses) which have no analogue in English. The Complement Clauses (COMPCs) constructions all involve an embedded clause followed by either an abstract nominal such as 'koto' or the particle 'no'. There is also the 'no da' construction, which, like the HRC construction, has no analogue in English. There is disagreement in the literature as to the syntax, semantics, and pragmatics of these clausal constructions. Additionally, the status and use of the particle 'no' across the different constructions it occurs in is highly contentious. This study examines the nature of these clausal constructions and demonstrates that they are all nominalizations, and that the particle 'no' is a nominalization marker that is required when the fact of nominalization is ambiguous. It also argues that the underlying semantics of 'koto' and 'mono', and the fact of nominalization marked by 'no', account for their pragmatic differences, and align with the notions of experiential judgements, which are based on a speaker's analysis of a given event, and perceptual judgements, which lack the speaker's analysis and instead present the event as directly witnessed by the speaker. Specifically, 'koto' COMPCs align with experiential judgement, while 'no' COMPCs and the 'no da' construction align with perceptual judgement.
Nominalization in Asian Languages
Nominalization in Asian Languages - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Nominalization in Asian Languages write by Foong Ha Yap. This book was released on 2011-06-29. Nominalization in Asian Languages available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Research on nominalization, a process that gives rise to referring expressions, has always played a central role in linguistic investigations. Over the years there has also been growing evidence that nominalization constructions often extend to non-referential domains. They participate in noun-modifying expressions (e.g. genitive and relative clauses), subordinate clauses and topic constructions, finite structures with the nominalizers reanalyzed as TAM markers, and stance constructions with evaluative, attitudinal, evidential and epistemic overtones. This volume brings together historical and crosslinguistic evidence from more than 20 different languages representing six different language families spanning the Asian continent and the Pacific and Indian oceans to elucidate the strategies and grammaticalization pathways that give rise to both referential and non-referential uses of nominalization constructions. This collection highlights the diversity of strategies and at the same time the robust cyclical nature of change within and across languages. The combined diachronic and typological analyses in this volume are particularly valuable for linguistic research on diachronic morphosyntax and linguistic ‘universals’, and are also an important supplementary cross-referencing tool for linguistic investigations of versatile and ubiquitous morphemes in under-documented languages.
Historical Linguistics, 1993
Historical Linguistics, 1993 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Historical Linguistics, 1993 write by Henning Andersen. This book was released on 1995-01-01. Historical Linguistics, 1993 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This volume contains a selection of 34 of the 96 papers presented at ICHL 1993, including several of the contributions to the workshop on Parameters and Typology organized jointly by Henning Andersen and David W. Lightfoot. Major topics represented are grammaticalization and functional renewal (illustrated with changes in romance, French, Pennsylvania German, Afrikaans, English, Finnish), changes in syntax (Indo-European, Indo-Aryan, Ancient Greek, Romanian, Spanish, Portuguese, French, Japanese, Dutch, English) and discourse structure (Old Russian, Old French), morphology (German, Turkic), phonology (Romance, Italian, French, German, Old English, English). Several papers include sociolinguistic, areal, and typological perspectives on change; a few are specifically concerned with reconstruction or with the principles of reconstruction, and several demonstrate the continued importance of the philological methods in the study of texts.
Noun-modifying Constructions in Japanese
Noun-modifying Constructions in Japanese - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Noun-modifying Constructions in Japanese write by Yoshiko Matsumoto. This book was released on 1997-01-01. Noun-modifying Constructions in Japanese available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This study examines the clausal noun-modifying construction (NMC) in Japanese, a much-discussed construction that embraces what have usually been called relative clause and noun complement constructions. Drawing upon a broad range of naturally-occurring NMCs, including types that fall outside the domains of relative clause and noun complement constructions, Yoshiko Matsumoto argues for an analysis of NMCs that gives an important role to semantics and pragmatics. The framework in which this approach is presented draws from, and further refines, concepts of frame semantics. By using a frame semantic definition of semantic integration, the author reveals the commonality of diverse types of NMCs in Japanese, and posits a tripartite classification of NMCs which is both more comprehensive and more revealing than the traditional dichotomy between relative clause and noun complement constructions. As the first comprehensive and systematic study in English of Japanese NMCs with diverse lexical heads, this work is further notable for its detailed discussion of the dependence of NMCs on both linguistic and extra-linguistic context.
Some Aspects of Japanese Nominalizations
Some Aspects of Japanese Nominalizations - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Some Aspects of Japanese Nominalizations write by Seiichi Makino. This book was released on 1969. Some Aspects of Japanese Nominalizations available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
