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Japanese syntax in comparative perspective /

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Comparative syntax has been playing an increasingly important role in research in syntactic theory. Japanese has also been discussed in comparative perspective, but the comparison has been mostly with English. This volume aims to pursue the comparative syntax of Japanese with other Asian languages a...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Saito, Mamoru (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Oxford : Oxford University Press, [2014]
Series:Oxford studies in comparative syntax.
Subjects:
Japanese language > Syntax.
Japanese language > Grammar, Comparative > Asian.
Japanese language > Discourse analysis.
Table of Contents:
  • N -ellipsis and the structure of noun phrases in Chinese and Japanese / Namoru Saito, T.-H. Jonah Lin, and Keiko Murasugi
  • Number and classifier / Yasuki Ueda
  • On Chinese and Japanese relative clauses and NP-ellipsis / Yoichi Miyamoto
  • Argument ellipsis, anti-agreement, and scrambling / Daiko Takahashi
  • A comparative syntax of ellipsis in Japanese and Korean / Namoru Saito and Duk-Ho An
  • A comparative approach to Japanese postposing / Yuji Takano
  • Comparative remarks on wh-adverbials in situ in Japanese and Chinese / Tomohiro Fujii, KensukeTakita, Barry Chung-Yu Yang, and Wei-Tien Dylan Tsai
  • On multiple wh- questions with "why' in Japanese and Chinese / Kensuke Takita, Barry Chung-Yu Yang
  • Dative/Genitive subjects in Japanese and Chinese: a comparative perspective / Hideki Kishimoto
  • Dative subjects and impersonals in null-subject languages / Hiroyuki Ura.