Shigeru Miyagawa

Case, Argument Structure, and Word Order

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Produktbeschreibung

Over the years, a major strand of Miyagawa's research has been to study how syntax, case marking, and argument structure interact. In particular, Miyagawa's work addresses the nature of the relationship between syntax and argument structure, and how case marking and other phenomena help to elucidate this relationship. In this collection of new and revised pieces, Miyagawa expands and develops new analyses for numeral quantifier stranding, ditransitive constructions, nominative/genitive alternation, "syntactic" analysis of lexical and syntactic causatives, and historical change in the accusative case marking from Old Japanese to Modern Japanese. All of these analyses demonstrate an intimate relation among case marking, argument structure, and word order.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Februar 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 621g
• ISBN-13: 9780415878593
• ISBN-10: 0415878594
• Artikelnr.: 32919535

Autorenporträt

Shigeru Miyagawa is Professor of Linguistics and Kochi-Manjiro Professor of Japanese Language and Culture, Head, Foreign Languaages and Literatures, MIT. He works on issues of syntax and morphology using a variety of languages including those in the Altaic family and particularly Japanese.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction 1. Numeral quantifiers and thematic relations 2. Telicity,
stranded numeral quantifiers, and quantifier scope 3. Argument structure
and ditransitive verbs in Japanese with Takae Tsujioka 4. Nominalization
and argument structure: Evidence for the dual-base analysis of ditransitive
constructions in Japanese Appendix to chapter 4: Challenges to the
dual-base analysis of ditransitives 5. Genitive subjects in Altaic and
specification of phase 6. The genitive of dependent tense in Japanese and
its correlation with the genitive of negation in Slavic 7. Blocking and
Japanese causatives 8. Blocking and causatives revisited: Unexpected
competition across derivations 9. Historical development of the accusative
case marker 10. The Old Japanese accusative revisited: Realizing all the
universal options Notes References Index