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Analyzing Japanese Syntax: A Generative Perspective

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Publisher
Hituzi Syobo Publishing
Year
2020
Tongue
English
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217
Category
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✦ Synopsis

This introductory textbook explains the basic ideas and the core notions entertained in the most influential syntactic theory of generative grammar and shows how Japanese syntax can be analyzed using concrete examples from a range of phenomena. Each chapter provides concise and accessible illustrations of how the theoretical methods can be applied to the analysis of various grammatical constructions, as well as offering brief remarks on descriptive and theoretical issues for further research. Generous exercises, which may be useful for checking the reader's understanding, are also available at the textbook webpage. These combined textbook materials allow readers to have hands-on training in linguistic analysis, and to become familiar with the recent methods and concepts underlying the analysis of natural language syntax. This textbook is an essential guide to those who are interested in starting scientific research on Japanese syntax without a prior knowledge of generative grammar.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents
PART I Theoretical Foundations
chapter 1 Scientific Approach to Language
chapter 2 Rationalism versus Empiricism
chapter 3 Universal Grammar
chapter 4 Lexical and Functional Categories
PART II Ingredients of Clauses
chapter 5 Syntax: The Core of Grammar
chapter 6 Generalizing Phrase Structures:Xʹ-Theory
chapter 7 Reformulating Clause Structures
chapter 8 Thematic Roles
chapter 9 Passivization: Case and NP-movement
PART III Nominal Structures
chapter 10 Anaphors, Pronominals, and R-Expressions
chapter 11 Quantifier Scope
chapter 12 NP/DP and PP
PART IV Hypotheses on Clause Structures
chapter 13 Unaccusativity
chapter 14 Where Do Subjects Come From?
chapter 15 Control and Raising
chapter 16 Head Movement
chapter 17 Topics on Sentence-Initial Phrases
PART V Grammatical Constructions
chapter 18 Complex Predicates
chapter 19 Argument Extraction from DP
chapter 20 Non-Canonical Case Marking
chapter 21 Focusing on VP
Bibliography
Index

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