Word Formation in a Modular Theory of Grammar: Postsyntactic Compounds in Japanese

Rebounding activation caused by lexical homophony in the processing of Japanese two-kanji compound words

“…However, the light verb cannot be attached to all Japanese nouns. It is assumed that some specific meanings possessed by nouns must determine whether or not the light verb can be attached to them (Iida, 1987;Ito & Sugioka, 2002;Kageyama, 1996;Matsuoka, 2004;Shibatani & Kageyama, 1988;Tamaoka, Matsuoka, Sakai, & Makioka, 2005). Word with a high degree of homophony had 10 out of 27 items attached a light verb while words with no homophony had 15 out of 27 items.…”

Notes on nominal ellipsis and the nature of no and classifiers in Japanese

“…The answer is that the main predicate of the light verb construction can be combined with its internal argument to form what Shibatani and Kageyama (1988) call postsyntactic compounds. An example of postsyntactic compounding based on the combination of the predicate and the object in (29a) is given in (29b).…”

Morphological variation in Japanese compounds: The case of hoodai and the notion of “compound-specific submeaning”

“…There is a slight pause after hukuro here. This is an example of the ''post-syntactic compound'' proposed in Shibatani and Kageyama (1988). See Shibatani and Kageyama (1988:459-460) In (8a) the light verb suru ('do') is attached to hukuro-tume and in (8b) it is attached to hukuro-zume whose second element has been subjected to ''rendaku.''…”