The Syntax of Possession in Japanese

by Tsujioka,Takae

• ISBN13: 9780415941624
• ISBN10: 0415941628
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2002-06-28
• Publisher: Routledge

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	xi
List of Abbreviations	xiii
Introduction	3	(16)
Issues in possessive syntax	3	(6)
A sketch of clausal possessives in Japanese	9	(7)
Lexical verbs of possession	10	(1)
The possessive/locative/existential parallelism	11	(3)
Adjectival modification and possessive syntax	14	(2)
Organization and synopsis	16	(3)
Theoretical Assumptions	19	(4)
Conceptual background	19	(1)
Features and Checking Theory	20	(1)
The theory of Attract and the locality condition	21	(2)
Nominal and Clausal Possessives	23	(38)
The Hungarian E-possessive	24	(5)
The Japanese E-possessive	29	(20)
Proposal: Possessor extraction in Japanese	30	(2)
Muromatsu (1997): Honorification as agreement?	32	(4)
A puzzle concerning scrambling	36	(4)
The Unambiguous Domination Constraint	40	(9)
Hungarian-Japanese contrasts	49	(4)
Previous analyses of the Japanese E-possessive	53	(6)
Homophonous aru	53	(4)
Homophonous aru AND iru	57	(2)
Summary of Chapter 3	59	(2)
E-possessive and Locative	61	(46)
Previous approaches to the possessive/locative parallelism	63	(9)
Pragma-semantic approach	63	(3)
Homophonous transitive-intransitive pairs	66	(4)
Two types of small clause	70	(2)
Summary of Section 4.1	72	(1)
Proposal: Extending the E-possessive account	72	(25)
Existential interpretation and D-incorporation	73	(3)
Structures of the locative, the existential, and the E-possessive	76	(7)
How the E-possessive account works	83	(5)
``Subjecthood'' in Japanese and Checking Theory	88	(4)
The scrambling puzzle revisited	92	(3)
Animacy alternation	95	(1)
Summary of Section 4.2	96	(1)
E-possessive and locative in Hungarian	97	(3)
Summary of Chapter 4	100	(7)
Appendix to Chapter 4: On the categorical status of the possessor and the locational phrase	101	(6)
The Structures of Possessors	107	(32)
Proposal: the two positions of possessors	109	(2)
Alienable and inalienable possessors	111	(11)
The notion of inalienability in grammar	112	(2)
A thematic approach to inalienable possessors	114	(3)
The position of alienable possessors	117	(4)
Inalienability in Japanese	121	(1)
Attributive adjectives in Japanese	122	(10)
Hungarian-Japanese contrast	132	(1)
Summary of Chapter 5	133	(6)
Appendix to Chapter 5: A survey of inalienability in Japanese	134	(1)
Body Parts	134	(1)
Kinship terms	135	(1)
Part-whole	136	(1)
Colors/shapes	137	(1)
Other Attributes	138	(1)
Summary	138	(1)
Inalienable Possession Construction with `do'	139	(28)
Properties of the IPC with `do'	140	(7)
Obligatory modification	140	(2)
Inalienability	142	(2)
Verb form	144	(3)
Proposal: the syntax of the IPC with `do'	147	(3)
No possessor-raising in the IPC with `do'	150	(4)
Small v in possessives	154	(12)
Proxy verb suru?	154	(3)
The Bahuvrihi possessive in Yaqui	157	(6)
A note on possessional adjectives in English	163	(3)
Summary of Chapter 6	166	(1)
Bibliography	167	(14)
Index	181