Diachrony Of Personal Pronouns In Japanese
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Diachrony Of Personal Pronouns In Japanese
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Author : Osamu Ishiyama
language : en
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
Release Date : 2019-01-15
Diachrony Of Personal Pronouns In Japanese written by Osamu Ishiyama and has been published by John Benjamins Publishing Company this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-01-15 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
Personal pronouns in Japanese form a heterogeneous category. This book investigates their historical development from a functional perspective. It shows that while nouns give rise to personal pronouns through semanticization of pragmatic inferences, the use of non-nominal forms such as demonstratives and reflexives for person referents can be resolved within their original functions, offering little reason to treat them as personal pronouns. The cross-linguistic investigation into the common sources of personal pronouns reveals that the development of personal pronouns from nouns is largely consistent with grammaticalization, but that of forms of non-nominal origins requires separate mechanisms such as spatial/empathetic perspectives and displacement of semantic features for politeness, showing that a one-size-fits-all approach to diachrony of personal pronouns is not sufficient. This book will be of special interest to researchers and students in historical linguistics, pragmatics, and Japanese linguistics, who take a functional view of language.
Personal Pronouns And Argument Structure In Japanese
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Author : Reijirou Shibasaki
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2005
Personal Pronouns And Argument Structure In Japanese written by Reijirou Shibasaki and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with categories.
Frequency analysis is crucial to the goals of this dissertation. Recently, we have witnessed a growing body of research by functionally oriented linguists (e.g. Bybee and Hopper 2001; Barlow and Kemmer 2001; Du Bois et al. 2003) and psycholinguistics (e.g. Elman et al. 1996) who regard grammar as a dynamic system that emerges from language use. In this usage-based and frequency-based approach to grammar, grammar is seen not as autonomous (one of the central tenets of generative linguistics), but as a dynamic system that emerges from recurrent patterns of use in naturally occurring discourse.
The Mysterious Address Term Anata You In Japanese
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Author : Yoko Yonezawa
language : en
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
Release Date : 2021-10-15
The Mysterious Address Term Anata You In Japanese written by Yoko Yonezawa and has been published by John Benjamins Publishing Company this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-10-15 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
The use of the second person singular pronoun anata ‘you’ in modern Japanese has long been regarded as mysterious and problematic, generating contradictory nuances such as polite, impolite, intimate, and distancing. Treated as a troublesome pronoun, scholars have searched for a semantically loaded meaning in anata, under the assumption that all Japanese personal reference terms involve social indexicality. This book takes a new approach, revealing that anata is in fact semantically simple and its powerful expressivity is explained only in pragmatic terms. In doing so, the study brings to bear a thorough understanding of key issues in pragmatics, such as common ground, sociocultural norms, and shared understandings, in order to fully grasp the meaning and usage of this single linguistic item. This book will be of interest to scholars and students in a range of linguistic fields, such as semantics, pragmatics, sociolinguistics, discourse analysis, anthropological linguistics, linguistic typology, cultural linguistics, as well as applied linguistics.
Linguistic Categories Language Description And Linguistic Typology
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Author : Luca Alfieri
language : en
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
Release Date : 2021-07-15
Linguistic Categories Language Description And Linguistic Typology written by Luca Alfieri and has been published by John Benjamins Publishing Company this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-07-15 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
Few issues in the history of the language sciences have been an object of as much discussion and controversy as linguistic categories. The eleven articles included in this volume tackle the issue of categories from a wide range of perspectives and with different foci, in the context of the current debate on the nature and methodology of the research on comparative concepts – particularly, the relation between the categories needed to describe languages and those needed to compare languages. While the first six papers deal with general theoretical questions, the following five confront specific issues in the domain of language analysis arising from the application of categories. The volume will appeal to a very broad readership: advanced students and scholars in any field of linguistics, but also specialists in the philosophy of language, and scholars interested in the cognitive aspects of language from different subfields (neurolinguistics, cognitive sciences, psycholinguistics, anthropology).
Diachrony Of Verb Morphology
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Author : Martine Robbeets
language : en
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Release Date : 2015-07-24
Diachrony Of Verb Morphology written by Martine Robbeets and has been published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-07-24 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
This book deals with shared verb morphology in Japanese and other languages that have been identified as Transeurasian (traditionally: “Altaic”) in previous research. It analyzes shared etymologies and reconstructed grammaticalizations with the goal to provide evidence for the genealogical relatedness of these languages.
The Linguistic Cycle
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Author : Elly van Gelderen
language : en
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Release Date : 2023-07-31
The Linguistic Cycle written by Elly van Gelderen and has been published by Taylor & Francis this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-07-31 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
Cyclical language change is a linguistic process by which a word, phrase, or part of the grammar loses its meaning or function and is then replaced by another. This can even happen on the level of an entire language, which can experience a change in the language family it is a part of. This new text is a comprehensive introduction to this phenomenon, the mechanisms underlying it, and the relations between the different types of cycles. Elly van Gelderen reviews the subject widely and holistically, defining key terms and comprehensively presenting diverse theoretical perspectives and empirical findings. With coverage of a variety of micro cycles and the more controversial macro cycles, incorporating cutting-edge work on grammaticalization, and drawing on examples from many languages and language families, this book accessibly guides readers through the state of the art in the field. With practical methodological guidance on how to identify and investigate linguistic cycles, and an array of useful pedagogical features, the book provides a coherent framework for approaching, understanding, and furthering research in linguistic cycles. This text will be an indispensable resource for advanced students and researchers in historical and diachronic linguistics, language typology, and linguistic and grammatical theory.
Diachrony Of Differential Argument Marking
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Author : Ilja A. Seržant
language : en
Publisher: Language Science Press
Release Date : 2018
Diachrony Of Differential Argument Marking written by Ilja A. Seržant and has been published by Language Science Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018 with Electronic books categories.
While there are languages that code a particular grammatical role (e.g. subject or direct object) in one and the same way across the board, many more languages code the same grammatical roles differentially. The variables which condition the differential argument marking (or DAM) pertain to various properties of the NP (such as animacy or definiteness) or to event semantics or various properties of the clause. While the main line of current research on DAM is mainly synchronic the volume tackles the diachronic perspective. The tenet is that the emergence and the development of differential marking systems provide a different kind of evidence for the understanding of the phenomenon. The present volume consists of 18 chapters and primarily brings together diachronic case studies on particular languages or language groups including e.g. Finno-Ugric, Sino-Tibetan and Japonic languages. The volume also includes a position paper, which provides an overview of the typology of different subtypes of DAM systems, a chapter on computer simulation of the emergence of DAM and a chapter devoted to the cross-linguistic effects of referential hierarchies on DAM.
Generative Grammatical Studies In The Japanese Language
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Author : S.-Y. Kuroda
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1965
Generative Grammatical Studies In The Japanese Language written by S.-Y. Kuroda and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1965 with English language categories.
Grammatical Gender And Linguistic Complexity Ii
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Author : Francesca Di Garbo
language : en
Publisher: Language Science Press
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Grammatical Gender And Linguistic Complexity Ii written by Francesca Di Garbo and has been published by Language Science Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
The many facets of grammatical gender remain one of the most fruitful areas of linguistic research, and pose fascinating questions about the origins and development of complexity in language. The present work is a two-volume collection of 13 chapters on the topic of grammatical gender seen through the prism of linguistic complexity. The contributions discuss what counts as complex and/or simple in grammatical gender systems, whether the distribution of gender systems across the world’s languages relates to the language ecology and social history of speech communities. Contributors demonstrate how the complexity of gender systems can be studied synchronically, both in individual languages and over large cross-linguistic samples, and diachronically, by exploring how gender systems change over time. Volume two consists of three chapters providing diachronic and typological case studies, followed by a final chapter discussing old and new theoretical and empirical challenges in the study of the dynamics of gender complexity. This volume is preceded by volume one, which, in addition to three chapters on the theoretical foundations of gender complexity, contains six chapters on grammatical gender and complexity in individual languages and language families of Africa, New Guinea, and South Asia.
Nominalization In Asian Languages
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Author : Foong Ha Yap
language : en
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Release Date : 2011-06-29
Nominalization In Asian Languages written by Foong Ha Yap and has been published by John Benjamins Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-06-29 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
Research on nominalization, a process that gives rise to referring expressions, has always played a central role in linguistic investigations. Over the years there has also been growing evidence that nominalization constructions often extend to non-referential domains. They participate in noun-modifying expressions (e.g. genitive and relative clauses), subordinate clauses and topic constructions, finite structures with the nominalizers reanalyzed as TAM markers, and stance constructions with evaluative, attitudinal, evidential and epistemic overtones. This volume brings together historical and crosslinguistic evidence from more than 20 different languages representing six different language families spanning the Asian continent and the Pacific and Indian oceans to elucidate the strategies and grammaticalization pathways that give rise to both referential and non-referential uses of nominalization constructions. This collection highlights the diversity of strategies and at the same time the robust cyclical nature of change within and across languages. The combined diachronic and typological analyses in this volume are particularly valuable for linguistic research on diachronic morphosyntax and linguistic ‘universals’, and are also an important supplementary cross-referencing tool for linguistic investigations of versatile and ubiquitous morphemes in under-documented languages.