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Locality and Information Structure
Yoshio Endo
其他書名
A Cartographic Approach to Japanese
出版John Benjamins Publishing, 2007
主題Language Arts & Disciplines / Linguistics / General
ISBN97890272338069027233802
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=iVcJlv2fyRgC&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋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.