Kategoria BISAC: Foreign Language Study >> Japanese

This book demonstrates that greedy movement in Japanese fulfills locality and is triggered by checking formal features including theta roles: the Spec of TP and an uninterpretable ]V] feature enable successive cyclic verb raising that produces a complex verb (Multiple Predicate Formation). The interaction of feature checking and MPF yields nonobligatory controlled PRO, the long distance of A-movement in control constructions, the three types of passives, the semantic difference between coercive and noncoercive causatives, and the constraints on forming passives in double object...

In the process of second language acquisition, the ability to interact effectively is critical. But what does it mean to be interactively competent? This book addresses this question by presenting research on the development of interactional competence among learners of Japanese as a second language. Qualitative data collected on learners studying abroad in Japan is evaluated to explain changes in their interactional competence and provides specific insights into the learning of Japanese. The situated analysis of multiple data sets generates meaningful interpretations of the development of...

This volume will be the first full-length exploration of the details of the history of the Japanese language written by experts in the different subfields of linguistics. The book will include the latest research on topics such as segmental phonology, accent, and focus constructions, showing how they contribute to a fuller understanding of the history of Japanese.

This volume is the first full-fledged handbook of Japanese dialects in English. The study of Japanese dialects has a long tradition, and significant contributions have been made in many subfields of linguistics such as geolinguistics, sociolinguistics, philology, phonology, accentology, grammar, and lexicology. While Japanese dialectology is heavily influenced by the Western developments in the field, some original domestic achievements have also been made based on the meticulous fieldwork, the compilation of dialect dictionaries, and the painstaking mapping of dialect features in a large...