Handbook of Japanese contrastive linguistics / edited by Prashant Pardeshi, Taro Kageyama.
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- 9781501501210 (electronic bk.)
- 1501501216 (electronic bk.)
- 495.65 23
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Preface / Masayoshi Shibatani and Taro Kageyama -- Introduction to the Handbooks of Japanese Language and Linguistics / Masayoshi Shibatani and Taro Kageyama -- Contributors -- Introduction / Prashant Pardeshi and Taro Kageyama -- Part 1. Verbal constructions and related issues -- Transitivity in Japanese from a typological perspective / Prashant Pardeshi -- Non-canonical constructions in Japanese: A crosslinguistic perspective / Masayoshi Shibatani and Prashant Pardeshi -- Voice extension in passives and causatives / Ryuichi Washio -- Causative constructions in Japanese and Korean / Sung-Yeo Chung and Masayoshi Shibatani -- Entailed and intended results in Japanese and Burmese accomplishment verbs / Atsuhiko Kato -- Resultative constructions in Japanese from a typological perspective / Taro Kageyama and Li Shen -- Verb-Verb compounding in Japanese and Turkish / Yuu Kuribayashi -- Ainu complex predicates with reference to Japanese / Anna Bugaeva -- Motion event descriptions in Japanese from typological perspectives / Yo Matsumoto -- Deictic motion constructions in Japanese and Thai / Kiyoko Takahashi -- Event integration patterns in Sidaama and Japanese / Kazuhiro Kawachi -- Part 2. Nominal constructions and related issues -- Nominalization in crosslinguistic perspective / Masayoshi Shibatani -- Clausal noun-modifying constructions / Yoshiko Matsumoto and Bernard Comrie -- Noun-modifying constructions in Swahili and Japanese / Nobuko Yoneda -- Quantifier float in Japanese and English / Ken-ichi Takami -- Measure nouns and numerals / Akira Watanabe -- Japanese spatial deixis in crosslinguistic perspective / Shingo Imai -- 'Who', 'what', and 'which' in Japanese and Chinese / Hideki Kimura -- Inalienable possession in Japanese, English, and Warrongo / Tasaku Tsunoda -- Part 3. Aspect, modality, and predication -- Continuous aspects in Japanese, Newar and Meche / Kazuyuki Kiryu -- Modality in Japanese from a cross-linguistic perspective / Heiko Narrog -- Modality in Japanese and Spanish / Noritaka Fukushima -- Internal state predicates in Japanese and Thai / Satoshi Uehara and Kingkarn Thepkanjana -- Property predication in Koryak viewed from Japanese / Megumi Kurebito -- Subordination and insubordination in Japanese from a crosslinguistic perspective / Kaoru Horie.
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