An Introduction to Japanese Linguistics

by Tsujimura, Natsuko

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2nd

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9781405110655

ISBN10:

1405110651

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Paperback

Pub. Date:

9/14/2006

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Wiley-Blackwell

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The new edition of An Introduction to Japanese Linguistics gives an updated, comprehensive account of Japanese linguistics, covering phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, language change, dialect variation, and gender differences. Changes in the new edition include a new chapter on language acquisition, which includes experimental research and its implications for phonological, syntactic, and semantic issues Introduces linguistic notions and terminology and discusses theoretical analyses of linguistic phenomena in the Japanese language Focuses primarily on phonology and syntax, and adopts a generative grammar framework Includes exercises exploring descriptive and theoretical issues and reading lists which introduce students to the research literature.

Author Biography

Natsuko Tsujimura is Professor of Japanese Linguistics at Indiana University. Her publications include The Handbook of Japanese Linguistics (Blackwell, 1999), and she has published extensively on various aspects of lexical semantics.

List of Figures, Tables, and Maps	p. xii
Preface to the Second Edition	p. xiii
Acknowledgments	p. xv
Introduction	p. 1
Suggested Readings	p. 3
Phonetics	p. 5
Phonetic Inventory	p. 7
Place/Manner of Articulation and Voicing	p. 7
Phonetic Inventory of English - Consonants	p. 8
Stops	p. 8
Fricatives	p. 9
Affricates	p. 10
Approximants	p. 10
Nasals	p. 10
Phonetic Inventory of Japanese - Consonants	p. 11
Stops	p. 11
Fricatives	p. 11
Affricates	p. 13
Approximants	p. 13
Nasals	p. 14
Phonetic Inventory of English - Vowels	p. 15
Phonetic Inventory of Japanese - Vowels	p. 17
Notes	p. 18
Suggested Readings	p. 19
Exercises	p. 20
Phonology	p. 22
Phonological Rules in Japanese	p. 23
Devoicing of High Vowels	p. 23
Nasal Assimilation	p. 27
Alveolar Alternations	p. 30
[h]/[[Phi]]/[c] Alternations	p. 34
Digression on the Phoneme Status of [t[superscript s], c, s, j, [Phi], c]	p. 35
Verbal Conjugation Rules	p. 37
Rule Ordering	p. 46
Sequential Voicing - "Rendaku"	p. 50
Mora vs. Syllable	p. 58
Speech Errors	p. 61
English	p. 61
Japanese	p. 63
Language Games: "Babibu" Language	p. 64
Accentuation in Japanese	p. 66
Stress vs. Pitch	p. 66
Accentuation in Japanese	p. 67
Mora vs. Syllable	p. 71
Accentuation of Long Nominal Compounds	p. 73
Accentuation of Short Nominal Compounds	p. 79
Accentual Variation among Endings	p. 82
Mimetics	p. 85
Loan Words	p. 89
Casual Speech and Fast Speech	p. 92
Length Requirements	p. 94
Notes	p. 104
Suggested Readings	p. 106
Exercises	p. 107
Morphology	p. 114
Parts of Speech Categories	p. 115
Nouns	p. 115
Verbs	p. 116
Adjectives	p. 119
Adverbs	p. 120
Postpositions	p. 121
Case Particles	p. 122
Adjectival Nouns	p. 125
Verbal Nouns	p. 127
Morpheme Types	p. 129
Word Formation	p. 137
Affixation	p. 137
Compounding	p. 138
Reduplication	p. 140
Clipping	p. 141
Borrowing	p. 141
Head	p. 143
Issues in Japanese Morphology (1): Transitive and Intransitive Verb Pairs	p. 153
Issues in Japanese Morphology (2): Nominalization	p. 153
Issues in Japanese Morphology (3): Compounding	p. 160
Background	p. 160
N-V Compounds	p. 164
V-V Compounds	p. 169
Lexical vs. Syntactic V-V Compounds	p. 169
Lexical V-V Compounds: Semantic Relations	p. 179
Lexical V-V Compounds: Transitivity and Argument Structure	p. 184
Transitive and Intransitive Compound Verb Pairs	p. 188
Compound Verbs and Nominalization	p. 196
Notes	p. 198
Suggested Readings	p. 200
Exercises	p. 201
Syntax	p. 206
Syntactic Structures	p. 207
Syntactic Constituency	p. 207
Phrase Structures	p. 208
Phrase Structure Rules	p. 211
The Notion of Head	p. 219
Subcategorization	p. 220
Structural Relations	p. 223
Transformational Rules	p. 224
Yes-No Question	p. 224
WH-Movement	p. 226
Word Order and Scrambling	p. 229
Scrambling Phenomenon	p. 229
Configurationality	p. 231
Evidence for the Movement Analysis	p. 235
Numeral Quantifiers	p. 236
Pronominal Reference	p. 242
Some Restrictions on Scrambling	p. 248
Null Anaphora	p. 254
Syntactic Representation of Null Anaphora	p. 255
Interpretation of Null Anaphora	p. 257
Reflexives	p. 257
Zibun	p. 258
Zibun-Zisin	p. 267
The Notion of Subject	p. 269
Reflexivization	p. 271
Subject Honorification	p. 272
Passives	p. 273
Direct Passives	p. 274
Indirect Passives (Adversative Passives)	p. 278
Ni Yotte-Passives	p. 281
Causatives	p. 287
O-Causatives and Ni-Causatives	p. 287
The Double-O Constraint	p. 289
The Structure of Causatives	p. 294
Causative Passives	p. 297
Adversative Causatives	p. 298
Lexical Causatives	p. 298
Relative Clauses (Sentence Modifiers)	p. 301
The Ga/No Conversion	p. 302
Relative Clauses without Gaps	p. 303
Internally Headed Relative Clauses	p. 306
Unaccusativity	p. 307
The Light Verb Construction	p. 313
Further Issues on Phrase Structure	p. 316
X[prime]-Theory	p. 316
Application to Japanese	p. 324
Notes	p. 328
Suggested Readings	p. 331
Exercises	p. 333
Semantics	p. 340
Word Meaning and Sentence Meaning	p. 341
Word/Phrase Meaning and Types of Relationships	p. 341
Sentence Meaning	p. 344
Metaphors and Idioms	p. 347
Deixis	p. 349
Mimetics	p. 360
Tense and Aspect	p. 364
Tense	p. 364
Aspect	p. 369
Grammatical Aspect	p. 369
Lexical Aspect	p. 375
Aspectual Verbs	p. 389
Verb Semantics	p. 397
Linking Regularity and Unaccusativity	p. 397
Semantic Classes of Verbs and their Syntactic Patterns	p. 399
Lexicalization	p. 401
Pragmatics	p. 404
Speaker's Meaning	p. 404
The Nature of Information	p. 406
Wa vs. Ga	p. 406
Interaction with Syntax and Morphology	p. 409
Relevance of Contextual Information	p. 412
Notes	p. 415
Suggested Readings	p. 416
Exercises	p. 418
Language Variation	p. 422
Dialectal Variation	p. 422
Styles and Levels of Speech	p. 428
Gender Differences	p. 433
Notes	p. 442
Suggested Readings	p. 442
Exercises	p. 443
Language Acquisition	p. 444
Regularity in Language Acquisition	p. 445
Phonological Unit - Mora	p. 445
Lexicalization Pattern and Mimetics	p. 448
Tense/Aspect Marking	p. 453
Generalizations in Children's Errors	p. 454
Inflectional Morphology	p. 455
Case Particles	p. 457
Prenominal Modification	p. 459
Theoretical Approaches to Verb Acquisition	p. 462
Pragmatic Acquisition	p. 471
Suggested Readings	p. 474
Exercises	p. 475
Bibliography	p. 477
Index	p. 495
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