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This monograph presents a systematic exploration of Japanese syntax within the cartographic approach, paying special attention to the locality effects induced by discourse-based features such as topic and focus. Although the main focus is on Japanese syntax, implications of the analyses developed are investigated from a broader comparative perspective. Unlike previous works on Japanese generative syntax, this book is based partially on informant surveys, including the distribution of adverbials and the categorical status of nominative-Case-marked adverbials, as well as an exhaustive survey of ditransitive predicates in terms of word formation and idioms in Koujien, one of the most comprehensive Japanese dictionaries. A systematic syntactic study of the nature of clause-final particles in Japanese, an area previously only explored in the framework of discourse analysis, is also presented. It is shown that the EPP may be satisfied by such discourse-related elements as topic and focus and by these sentence final particles.
Japanese language --- Syntax. --- Syntax
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Modality is the way a speaker modifies her declaratives and other speech acts to optimally assess the common ground of knowledge and belief of the addressee with the aim to optimally achieve understanding and an assessment of relevant information exchange. In languages such as German (and other Germanic languages outside of English), this may happen in covert terms. Main categories used for this purpose are modal adverbials ("modal particles") and modal verbs. Epistemic uses of modal verbs (like German sollen) cover evidential (reportative) information simultaneously providing the source of the information. Methodologically, description and explanation rest on Karl Bühler's concept of Origo as well as Roman Jakobson's concept of shifter. Typologically, East Asian languages such as Japanese pursue these semasiological fundaments far more closely than the European languages. In particular, Japanese has to mark the source of a statement in the declarative mode such that the reliability may be assessed by the hearer. The contributions in this collection provide insight into these modal techniques.
Modality (Linguistics) --- Cognitive grammar. --- Grammar, Comparative and general --- Language and languages --- Typology (Linguistics) --- Aspect. --- Mood. --- Tense. --- Philosophy. --- Psycholinguistics --- Grammar --- 801.56 --- 801.56 Syntaxis. Semantiek --- Syntaxis. Semantiek --- Modalité (Linguistique) --- Grammaire cognitive --- Aspect (Linguistique) --- Modes (Linguistique) --- Temps (Linguistique) --- Langage et langues --- Typologie (Linguistique) --- Philosophie --- Linguistic typology --- Tense (Grammar) --- Mode (Grammar) --- Mood (Grammar) --- Aspect (Linguistics) --- Cognitive linguistics --- Typology --- Verbal aspect --- Cognitive grammar --- Linguistics --- Linguistic universals --- Aspect --- Mood --- Tense --- Philosophy --- Temporal constructions --- Verb --- Classification --- Philology --- Modality. --- Semantics. --- Syntax. --- Typology.
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The architecture of the human language faculty has been one of the main foci of the linguistic research of the last half century. This branch of linguistics, broadly known as Generative Grammar, is concerned with the formulation of explanatory formal accounts of linguistic phenomena with the ulterior goal of gaining insight into the properties of the 'language organ'. The series comprises high quality monographs and collected volumes that address such issues. The topics in this series range from phonology to semantics, from syntax to information structure, from mathematical linguistics to studies of the lexicon.
Grammar, Comparative and general --- Linguistics --- Philology --- Adverbials
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