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Print Price: $61.95

Format:
Paperback
352 pp.
6.125" x 9.25"

ISBN-13:
9780199945221

Publication date:
June 2014

Imprint: OUP US


Japanese Syntax in Comparative Perspective

Edited by Mamoru Saito

Series : Oxford Studies in Comparative Syntax

This book examines the syntax of Japanese in comparison with other Asian languages within the Principles-and-Parameters framework. It grows out of a collaborative research project on comparative syntax pursued at the Center for Linguistics at Nanzan University from 2008-2013, in collaboration with researchers at Tsing Hua (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Connecticut, EFL U. (Hyderabad, India), Siena, and Cambridge.

In ten chapters, the book compares the syntax of Japanese to that of Chinese, Korean, Turkish, Hindi, and Malayalam, focusing on ellipsis, movement, and Case. The first three chapters compare nominal structures in Japanese and Chinese and account for the differences between them. An important point of comparison in these chapters is the patterns of N'-ellipsis the two languages exhibit. The subsequent two chapters focus on ellipsis. One examines argument ellipsis in Japanese, Turkish, and Chinese, and argues for its correlation with the absence of

Readership : Suitable for scholars and graduate students in syntax.

Preface
1. Mamoru Saito, T.-H. Jonah Lin, and Keiko Murasugi: N-Ellipsis and the Structure of Noun Phrases in Chinese and Japanese
2. Yasuki Ueda: Number and Classifier
3. Yoichi Miyamoto: On Chinese and Japanese Relative Clauses and NP-Ellipsis
4. Daiko Takahashi: Argument Ellipsis, Anti-agreement, and Scrambling
5. Mamoru Saito and Duk-Ho An: A Comparative Syntax of Ellipsis in Japanese and Korean
6. Yuji Takano: A Comparative Approach to Japanese Postposing
7. Tomohiro Fujii, Kensuke Takita, Barry Chung-Yu Yang, and Wei-Tien Dylan Tsai: Comparative Remarks on Wh-adverbials in Situ in Japanese and Chinese
8. Kensuke Takita and Barry Chung-Yu Yang: On Multiple Wh-Questions with 'Why' in Japanese and Chinese
9. Hideki Kishimoto: Dative/Genitive Subjects in Japanese: A Comparative Perspective
10. Hiroyuki Ura: Dative Subjects and Impersonals in Null-Subject Languages

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Mamoru Saito is Professor of Linguistics at Nanzan University.

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Special Features

  • Examines Japanese in comparison with other Asian languages, including Chinese, Korean, Turkish, and Dravidian and Indo-Aryan languages of India.