Usage-based Approaches to Japanese Grammar

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Towards the understanding of human language

Kaori Kabata Tsuyoshi Ono(Herausgeber*in)

John Benjamins Publishing Company

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Erschienen am 10. Juni 2014

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Usage-based Approaches to Japanese Grammar
Editorial page
Title page
LCC data
Table of contents
Acknowledgement
List of contributors
Situating usage-based (Japanese) linguistics
1. Introduction
2. Themes in usage-based linguistics
2.1 Universals and cross-linguistic orientation
2.2 External factors and interdisciplinary orientation
2.3 Parting from intuition
2.4 Non-discrete nature of linguistic categories
2.5 No division between synchrony and diachrony
3. Preview of the articles
References
Part 1. Cognition and language use
Subordination and information status
1. Introduction
2. Foreground vs. background information
3. Degree of subordination
4. Object complement clause in Japanese
4.1 Overview
4.2 To vs. Koto: Syntactic differences and degree of subordination
4.3 To vs. Koto: Functional differences
5. Conclusion
List of abbreviations
References
On state of mind and grammatical forms from functional perspectives
1. Introduction
2. Grammar and usage of garu and te-iru
2.1 Garu
2.2 Te-iru
2.3 The commonality of garu and te-iru
3. Theoretical justification
4. Concluding remarks
Appendix
Samples
References
Grammar of the internal expressive sentences in Japanese
1. Japanese scholarship on the internal expressive sentence
2. The nature of the internal expressive sentence
2.1 Expressive and descriptive sentences
2.2 Three semantic primitives of an expressive sentence
2.3 Interim summary
3. Grammar of internal expressive sentences and the neurological processes
3.1 Reflex expression
3.2 One-term expressions
3.3 Two-term expressions
4. External descriptive sentences - revisited
5. Summary
6. Discussion and conclusion
References
Subjectivity, intersubjectivity and Japanese grammar
1. Introduction
2. Subjectivity vs. intersubjectivity
2.1 Predicate order
2.2 Mental vs. speech act verb dichotomy
2.3 Unidirectionality in grammaticalization
3. On the fundamentality of subjectivity and intersubjectivity
4. Conclusion
Abbreviations
References
What typology reveals about modality in Japanese
1. Introduction
2. Revisiting the semantic and formal categories of modality in Japanese: A cross-linguistic assessment
2.1 Modality and its formal coding in linguistic typology
2.2 Modality and its formal coding in Japanese
3. Modality and its formal coding in Japanese, Korean, English, and German
3.1 Modal systems in Japanese, Korean, English, and German
3.2 Mood in Japanese, Korean, German, and English
3.3 Discourse systems in Japanese, Korean, English, and German
4. Why does Japanese have the distribution of modality categories it has? A communicative-discursive perspective
5. Conclusion and implications for grammar
Abbreviations
References
Part 2. Frequency, interaction and language use
If rendaku isn't a rule, what in the world is it?
1. Introduction
2. Fundamental irregularity
3. Lyman's Law
4. Direct object + verb stem
5. Analogy
6. An illusion of regularity?
References
The semantic basis of grammatical development
1. Introduction
2. Tense-aspect
2.1 Lexical aspect
2.2 Language bioprogram hypothesis: PNPD and SPD
2.3 Input distribution as explanation
3. Distributional learning and prototype-based initial representations
4. Other evidence for input-driven acquisition
4.1 Causative morpheme -sase in Japanese
4.2 Conditionals in Japanese and Korean
4.3 Nominative case-marker drop in Japanese and Korean
4.4 Relative clause constructions in Japanese
5. A methodological objection to the prototype model
6. Input vs. innateness in language acquisition
7. Prototypes vs. modularity
8. What is the nature of the grammar that children acquire?
9. Conclusion
References
Interchangeability of so-called interchangeable particles
1. Introduction
2. Semantic characterization of Ni vs. E
3. Ni and E in the speaker judgment data
3.1 Procedure
3.2 Results
4. Ni and E in spoken data
4.1 Methodology
4.2 Results
5. Ni and E in written text data
5.1 Methodology
5.2 Results
6. Discussion
7. Implication to grammar
References
Appendix
The re-examination of so-called 'clefts'
1. Introduction
2. Discourse functional studies of cleft constructions
3. Single unit turns versus multiunit turns
4. Analysis of so-called 'clefts' in multiparty talk-in-interaction
4.1 A case of a multiunit turn that ends with a predicate corresponding to the topic clause
4.2 A case of a multiunit turn that does not end with a clear linguistic marking
6. Conclusion
Acknowledgement
Appendix: Transcription conventions and abbreviations
References
Activity, participation, and joint turn construction
1. Introduction
2. Activity and participation as analytic concepts
3. Differentiated participation in situated activities through joint turn construction
3.1 Interactive achievement of shared perspectives
2.2 Differentiated displays of empathetic understanding of another's experience
2.3 Assisted explaining
2.4 Converting a dispreferred action to a preferred action
4. Concluding remarks
5. Appendix
5.1 Transcript symbols
5.2 Abbreviations used in the interlinear gloss
5.3 Double parentheses in the translation lines
References
Part 3. Language change and variation
Context in constructions
1. Introduction
2. Background of non-subject honorifics
3. O-Verb(stem)-suru construction: Use 1 - Nonsubject honorifics
4. O-V(stem)-suru construction: Direction toward performative honorifics
4.1 Use 2: Subject referent ~ Speaker
non-subject referent ~ addressee
4.2 Use 3: Addressee honorific use (Subject Referent ~ Addressee)
5. Frame semantic representations of the three uses of the O-Verb(stem)-Suru construction
6. Conclusion
7. List of abbreviations
References
The use and interpretation of "regional" and "standard" variants in Japanese conversation
1. Introduction
2. Method
3. Results and discussion
3.1 Inter- and intraspeaker variation
3.2 Mixing "regional" and "Standard" variants
3.3 Code-switching or variant-choice?
3.4 Variant-choice as a resource for style management
4. Conclusion and implications for grammar
5. Acknowledgment
References
Index

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